{"id":66478,"date":"2014-05-13T01:13:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T23:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=66478"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:41:54","slug":"gmail-hangouts-status-mood-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gmail-hangouts-status-mood-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved status and mood indicators come to Google Hangouts in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest criticisms about <a title=\"Google Hangouts news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/google-hangouts\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts<\/a> was the removal of the status indicator. While today&#8217;s update for Gmail doesn&#8217;t bring back the status feature, it does make it easier to see which friends are available to chat. Previously, friends who were able to chat were underlined with a thin green line. With today&#8217;s update, the line is replaced by a more obvious green bubble.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66483\" title=\"Gmail Hangouts set mood\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/set_mood-568x566.png\" alt=\"Gmail Hangouts set mood\" width=\"568\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/set_mood-568x566.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/set_mood-256x256.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/set_mood.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/> Moods are new to Gmail, allowing you to set one of eighty emojis as your status. This is a fun way to let your friends know what type of mood you&#8217;re in, similar to Skype. Unfortunately there&#8217;s no way to set text as your mood.  The update is rolling out today to all Gmail users. If you&#8217;re not using Hangouts in Gmail yet, you can enable it by clicking on your profile picture above your chat list and then <em>try the new Hangouts<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest criticisms about Google Hangouts was the removal of the status indicator. While today&#8217;s update for Gmail doesn&#8217;t bring back the status feature, it does make it easier to see which friends are available to chat. Previously, friends who were able to chat were underlined with a thin green line. With today&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/gmail-hangouts-status-mood-indicators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Improved status and mood indicators come to Google Hangouts in Gmail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":66483,"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-66478","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\/66478","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=66478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330770,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66478\/revisions\/330770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66478"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=66478"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=66478"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=66478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}