- Google merged Duo into Meet back in 2022.
- Ever since, some Duo features have remained as a legacy calling mode within Meet.
- Google now shares that this legacy support is ending in September.
Anyone who’s been using Google products and services for any length of time is well aware of the company’s proclivity towards… let’s say “reorganizing” things. Branding gets updated, new services are introduced, products split off, products get combined, and sometimes Google just has to kill one off. A few years back, Google was in the middle of one of these periods of reinvention for its communication apps, and that meant merging Meet with Duo.
In the end, we lost Duo as we knew it, and saw it absorbed into Meet. But even as that happened, Google let users continue to access some of that old functionality, presenting it as “Legacy (Duo) calling.” If you were still a fan of doing things the old way, we’ve got some bad news for you, as Google now shares its intent to finally cut off all this legacy support sometime this coming September (via 9to5Google).