Meanwhile, the Meet app has a green icon to indicate that it will eventually be phased out for enterprise users, though that original experience remains in Gmail as its own tab. Google Duo is a discontinued proprietary voice over IP (VoIP) and videotelephony service developed by Google, available for Android, iOS and web browsers. The company is also planning to update with Meet branding. Google has yet to update Duo’s Play Store listing with the new branding. (People are expressing their anger about this migration on the Meet listing.) That said, it’s possible that the company is seeing enough confusion that this change isn’t an accident. For regular users of the service, the company has already explained the transition through a prominent splash screen and banner that you have to interact with to remove. It’s a baffling turn of events and most likely an error on Google’s part. The company is working to make the upgrade easier for end users. It’s meant to help people that search/type “Duo” to launch the application. Update: Google tells us this evening that it intentionally brought back the Duo icon with this update on Android. As such, you have both the Duo and Meet logos in your app drawer, with both working to launch the new unified Meet-Duo experience. Version 173 today brings back the Google Duo icon for some reason. After updating and opening the app, Duo disappears from the launcher. This is because Duo has a much larger install base (5 billion vs 500 million).Īt the start of August, an update (172) started rolling out that replaced the blue Duo icon and introduced the four-colored Meet version. However, in terms of implementation, the Google Duo app is the one remaining on people’s phones and being updated with a new homescreen and features from both services. In consolidating its two video calling offerings into one, Google deemed “Meet” the surviving brand. As such, you now have two ways to launch the same application. In an amusing turn of events today that’s most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.
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