In the coming weeks, Google should roll out more such updates to Google Duo that would bring features such as the ability to customise virtual backgrounds in calls and meetings, scheduling meetings so everyone can join at a time that’s convenient for them, using in-meeting chat for deeper engagement, live sharing content to enable interaction with all participants on the call, getting real-time closed captions to better support accessibility and boost participation, increase in the size of video calls from a current limit of 32 to 100 participants and integration with other tools, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Assistant, and Messages - something Google had mentioned while announcing the change. Also Read - Google is making shopping easier than ever with five major updates to Google Shopping With this change Google Duo will remain Duo while getting features from Meet that will make the new and updated platform useful for both personal and professional usage. Also Read - Google Stadia is shutting down: Here’s what will happen to your purchases Google Duo users can either tap the ‘Got It’ button to dismiss the notification or tap the ‘Learn More’ button to know details about the change. “Your Google Duo Duo app will become Meet, with a new name and icon and more features like background effects,” the card in Google Duo says. The company has started rolling out version 170 of the Google Duo app on Android and iOS that brings a new card within the app that says, “Duo is getting even better”. As per a report by 9To5 Google, Google has started rolling out an update to its Google Duo app that brings the two platform closer to merger. Now, almost two months later, the company has finally started rolling out the update to Google Duo users on Android and iOS. Also Read - Google releases new voices for Android apps by updating its text-to-speech engine Once that integration is complete, Google Duo would be renamed as Google Meet and it will be a single video communications solution from the company that will be free to use for everyone. At the time, the company had also said that in the coming weeks, it would bring Google Meet’s top features to Google Duo. At the time, the company had said the unified app would give users with ‘a single solution for both video calling and meetings with people across their lives’. Meanwhile, the Meet app has a green icon to indicate that it will eventually be phased out for enterprise users, though that original experience remains in Gmail as its own tab.Google, last month, announced that it was unifying its video calling experience by merging its Google Duo and Google Meet platforms. The company is also planning to update with Meet branding. Google has yet to update Duo’s Play Store listing with the new branding. (People are expressing their anger about this migration on the Meet listing.) That said, it’s possible that the company is seeing enough confusion that this change isn’t an accident. For regular users of the service, the company has already explained the transition through a prominent splash screen and banner that you have to interact with to remove. It’s a baffling turn of events and most likely an error on Google’s part. The company is working to make the upgrade easier for end users. It’s meant to help people that search/type “Duo” to launch the application. Update: Google tells us this evening that it intentionally brought back the Duo icon with this update on Android. As such, you have both the Duo and Meet logos in your app drawer, with both working to launch the new unified Meet-Duo experience. Version 173 today brings back the Google Duo icon for some reason. After updating and opening the app, Duo disappears from the launcher. This is because Duo has a much larger install base (5 billion vs 500 million).Īt the start of August, an update (172) started rolling out that replaced the blue Duo icon and introduced the four-colored Meet version. However, in terms of implementation, the Google Duo app is the one remaining on people’s phones and being updated with a new homescreen and features from both services. In consolidating its two video calling offerings into one, Google deemed “Meet” the surviving brand. As such, you now have two ways to launch the same application. In an amusing turn of events today that’s most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.
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