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The one that is built into every GSuite/Workspace account. For free. Google Chat.

I would love to that you are right - but it not so easy.

I have two G Suite domains and I'm utterly and absolutely confused.

- in one domain I have "Chat" just under "Important" messages. But somehow I cannot send any chats. I see only chats from 2018 or so (when they shutdown Gmail Chat). The cool thing is that they look like read email messages. But I cannot send any chat.

- in other domain I have "Hangouts" but no Chat.

I hope this real world example illustrates why parent comment is correct when asking "Which one?".

The "Chats" under "Important" is a gmail tag/label for the messages that are archived into your gmail account from the messaging app.

Messages sent in Google Hangouts on my own domain today show up in my email under the "Chats" label, so this functionality is still working -- if you use the right/latest app, I guess.

Maybe your domain admin hasn't enabled the new app?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/9071576?hl=en

The mobile Google Chat still doesn't let you switch accounts, like Hangouts supports. Perplexing, given how much people in the Google-sphere context switch.

Isn't the mobile GChat integrated in the Gmail app?

Chat is now built into the gmail app which is much easier to switch on.

Makes it more difficult to switch between Gmail and Meet though (to look something up while in a meeting) since they are now conjoined into the same app.

I can understand Facebook or WeChat building everything into the same app, making the app into an inner platform within the platform, but when Google already control the outer platform it doesn't make much sense.

So, just like Google Talk / GChat was in GMail back in 2005? We've finally come full circle.

I see Meet, but not Chat, and none of my Chats show up in the Gmail app (iOS), and there's a separate Chat app (which doesn't do the account switching I mentioned).

If Chat is built in, I don't see it yet.

My app has mail, chat, rooms, and meet tabs at the bottom.

I have Mail and Meet.

For me there's a profile picture in the top right that opens an account dialog, from where a single tap switches to any other account. Do you mean something beyond that?

I haven't seen anything in GSuite that holds a candle to Slack. Is there a slack-like view embedded in GSuite somewhere?

chat.google.com ?

Try doing the slack step of clicking on the phone icon to start a call, then adding screen sharing.

We pay for gsuite and we pay for slack. google chat is no where yet.

You click the video button, switch tabs, and click the screen share button. I agree that chat sucks compared to slack and teams, but it's got enough functionality to not be a deal breaker for companies that are already paying gSuite. Especially if they've never used the superior competitors.

I have no idea what that is and I've used GSuite for decades.

gsuite hasn't existed for decades.

I don't think that's right, it's called Workplace now and I don't think it's been that long since they changed up the name. https://workspace.google.com/

No I mean the product that constitutes gsuite hasn't existed for 20 years. Gmail is 2004. drive, which is really the start of gsuite, is only 8 years old.

You mean weeks. GSuite was renamed to Workspace in October 2020. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/introducing...

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