Google Duo gets another chance at life, but don’t be too excited

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TL;DR

• Google is extending the timeline for Google Duo’s demise by a few months.
• The previously set deadline of September 2025 for removing all Duo features has now been moved to January 2026.
• When that happens, all users will be automatically migrated to Meet, and any older history will be removed.

In 2022, Google merged its then-popular video calling app Duo into Meet, which, at the time, was limited to video calling for Workspace accounts. Anyone familiar with Google wouldn’t be surprised by this gesture — or by the period of confusion that follows, during which multiple apps with similar use cases continue to exist. So, when Duo’s time came to an end, Google set a final date to drive the nails into its coffin and announced it would take away Duo’s legacy calling features in September 2025. This was to be followed by the deletion of all older messages by November.

However, it now appears that Google extended this timeline, and legacy Duo features will now sunset in January 2026. We recently witnessed the updated timeline in a warning message shown at the top of the Google Meet app on Android. The support page still displays the older schedule, although we can expect the renewed timeline to take effect.




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