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Google Chat history can no longer be turned off by default

Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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Google has removed the ability to turn your chat history off by default. The change came yesterday, in the wake of the I/O conference with the launch of Hangouts.

One of the features of Hangouts that was really emphasized at I/O, was that you will no longer have to worry about losing anything. Chats are kept, and everything you share, like photos, is put in folders and stored. Conversations have always been saved in Gmail, but until yesterday you could choose for this not to happen by default. Every chat has an ‘off the record‘ mode, but now you have to choose this for every chat.

Some people may find this annoying if they like to keep all their chats off the record. But most users are likely to prefer having conversations saved by default.

Google Hangouts, the integrated communication app was launched yesterday, and is available as a standalone app for Android and iOS.

[Source: Google Talk Help]

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