{"id":61705,"date":"2014-02-28T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=61705"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:50:56","slug":"major-hangouts-for-ios-update-brings-stickers-video-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/major-hangouts-for-ios-update-brings-stickers-video-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Hangouts for iOS update brings stickers, video messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google Hangouts for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts for iOS<\/a> received a major update this morning, bringing animated stickers and <a title=\"Vine news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/vine\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vine<\/a>-like video messaging. The previous version of Hangouts for iOS lacked many features of its <a title=\"Google Hangouts for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> counterpart but has now surpassed it. There&#8217;s no word from Google about when Android users can expect to see these new features.<\/p>\n<p>Stickers are big business for messaging apps like <a title=\"LINE to let everyone create and sell stickers from April\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/line-to-let-everyone-create-and-sell-stickers-from-april\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LINE<\/a> so it&#8217;s nice to see them in Hangouts. Unfortunately, the selection is mediocre and doesn&#8217;t feature original artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Short video messages are also a nice addition, letting users send up to 10 seconds of video. Videos won&#8217;t play unless you tap on them but the thumbnails show an animated gif of the video.<\/p>\n<p>The update also brings location sharing, which has been in the Android version but was missing in iOS. This means you can send an exact location to your friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61707\" title=\"Google Hangouts for iPad\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/2014-02-28-09.37.56-568x426.png\" alt=\"Google Hangouts for iPad\" width=\"568\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/2014-02-28-09.37.56-568x426.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/2014-02-28-09.37.56-256x192.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/02\/2014-02-28-09.37.56.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hangouts of for iOS also gets a redesign with new chat bubbles and an iPad optimized interface. iPad users will have a two column design with your chats listed on the right and your current chat on the left. There&#8217;s also a dedicated video chat button that runs along the right side of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>The mobile messaging battle is heating up. With Facebook&#8217;s <a title=\"Facebook to acquire WhatsApp for $16 billion\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-buys-whatsapp-for-16-billion\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pending purchase of WhatsApp<\/a>, messaging apps are all trying to find unique ways to draw more users. These new features in iOS should increase interest in Hangouts but Google is still competing in a crowded space.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google Hangouts for iOS download\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Hangouts for iOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Google Hangouts for iOS iTunes link\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/id643496868?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts (iTunes)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/disney-movies-anywhere-brings-your-disney-library-to-the-cloud\">Disney Movies Anywhere brings your Disney library to the cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/tor-is-developing-an-anonymous-mobile-os\">Tor developing anonymous mobile OS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/acr-drift-simplified-mobile-racing\">ACR Drift: simplified mobile racing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Hangouts for iOS received a major update this morning, bringing animated stickers and Vine-like video messaging. The previous version of Hangouts for iOS lacked many features of its Android counterpart but has now surpassed it. There&#8217;s no word from Google about when Android users can expect to see these new features. Stickers are big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/major-hangouts-for-ios-update-brings-stickers-video-messaging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Major Hangouts for iOS update brings stickers, video messaging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":61707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2620],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-61705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionhangouts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331233,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61705\/revisions\/331233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61705"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=61705"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=61705"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=61705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}