In September 2025, Google will officially replace its legacy Duo calls with Meet calling. As part of this transition, users are encouraged to export their call history and any saved video messages, as these will be lost during the change. The automatic upgrade to the new Meet experience will occur for all users, enhancing their video calling capabilities. Google Duo, which was the company’s video calling platform, was merged with Meet in 2022.
Although Duo was not completely discontinued at that time, it was used for “legacy calls” within Meet. A year later, in September 2024, Google announced that support for Duo’s legacy calling would be completely phased out. Now, they have provided a clear timeline for users. A notice within the Google Meet app indicates that legacy Duo calling will officially end in September 2025.
At present, if the person being called has not updated their app, Google Meet automatically switches to the legacy Duo calling experience. However, this will change as all users will be upgraded to the new Meet experience. Meet offers a significantly better video calling experience than Duo, featuring live captions, screen sharing, and cloud encryption, among others. To take advantage of these improvements, all participants on a call must be using the latest version of Meet.
It’s important to note that some features from Duo will be missing in Meet, including Family Mode and Knock Knock, while new alternatives will be introduced. Additionally, this transition won’t affect Android users, but it will impact owners of Nest devices. Currently, Nest devices can only handle legacy calls, as they do not support the enhanced Meet calling features. Google has not provided an updated timeline for when the Nest devices may receive support for the new Meet experience.
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