Alex Wiesen
Shared publicly - 12:35 PM
Hi everyone,
The launch of Hangouts 4.0 on Android is going to be an amazing one for Google Voice users.
Being able to use group SMS has been a top feature request for Google Voice users for years, and we're happy to announce the first part of this feature is launching shortly across Hangouts, enabling you to receive and reply to group SMS messages from your Google Voice number, if you've integrated Google Voice messaging with Hangouts. You'll be able to receive and reply to group SMS messages not only in Hangouts on Android, but also in Hangouts on the web and iOS as well. Starting a new group MMS (compose) isn't part of today's launch but we're working to bring it to our users in a future release.
In order to roll this out we need to wait for Google Hangouts 4.0 on Android to be fully released to everyone. After that's happened we'll turn on this feature across Android, web and iOS. I know many of you are eagerly awaiting this launch -- don't worry if you get the latest Hangouts 4.0 and this hasn't started working yet, it's coming within days!