How To Use Google Hangouts If You Don T Have Gmail

Once installed you will see a hangouts icon added to your system tray.

How to use google hangouts if you don t have gmail. Doesn t currently work for google apps users expand the google talk box in the left hand sidebar by clicking the speech bubble icon. Hangouts is a communication platform developed by google. You can use this free service for instant messaging video chat sms and more. The hangouts extension is currently only available in google chrome. It was the default chat for google and gmail until google was shut down.

Click on your chat avatar. Install the chrome browser extension if you don t want to open google to access your hangouts. Read on to learn how to do it. Use google hangouts to keep in touch with one person or a group. Select try the new hangouts option.

Those who do not have a google account to a hangouts call. You can find more out about how to invite a non gmail user to a video call here. Note again that you ll need to have a g suite account to invite anyone who doesn t have a gmail address. If you don t yet have hangouts in gmail but want it here s how to manually turn it on. You can start a new hangout by clicking the new hangout field.

To enable hangouts in gmail click on your profile photo from the google talk chat list then. You can also use it on the gmail page. Google hangouts previously google talk is an online chatting and phone video calling platform by google. Open the event on google calendar and tap edit event tap the edit icon. In addition to the apps you can also use hangouts from within gmail just like the old google talk.

Available on mobile or on desktop start making video or voice calls today. In general you cannot invite non gmail users to anything else e g. Turn on hangouts in gmail. It is google s response to skype and slack with the company forcing it in the enterprise direction. However when using the hangout app on mobile you can send normal sms messages through the app which can be sent to any phone.