Now hangouts is an exension in Chrome I do not want to use it in Mac OS. Currently is auto boots and fillls the screen when I wake the computer up and this is annoying as I want to open hangouts when required, not have it run in the background. Open the extension or app: Extension: At the top right, click the Hangouts extension. App: On your Bookmarks bar, click Apps. Or, in the address bar, go to chrome://apps. Click the Hangouts app.

To actually answer your question, Hangouts is still a Chrome Extension. It's in a half-way limbo state between Extension and App. A couple months ago Chrome announced/released/started demo-ing 'packaged apps'. These apps run similarly to native apps without having to have Chrome open. These packaged apps are a fairly new thing, however. Windows/Mac/Linux: Google updated the Hangouts Chrome app today with a brand new look that makes it a lot more appealing to use. The new app looks a lot like the Android and iOS versions of Hangouts. Hangouts Hangouts is cool and you can add a lot of people to chat with! But there is a just a teeny little problem, we can call each other but still chat in the call not go into the hangouts app just staying at the call and not leaving to go chat in the normal place.

For several years we have been using Google Hangouts Meet (NOT Google Hangouts – which is quite different, even though it sounds the same) as the preferred way of setting up telepsychiatry sessions at Gateway Psychiatric.

There are two essential points to know.

1. The information about how to join a Hangouts Meet is to be found in the invitation to the Google Calendar appointment. If you don’t use Google Calendar then you will need to find the invitation email. The invitation that probably includes your first and last name in the Title.
   
2. To join a Hangouts Meet you need to open the invitation in Chrome, Firefox or Safari and click the link in the invitation… For more on browser support see below.

Here is a mini-primer on joining a Hangouts Meet session…

Google Chrome Hangout

To join a video meeting, you need the Meet mobile app or a supported web browser. For details, see Supported web browsers.

Chrome Hangouts App Mac Desktop

iPhone instructions – either download the Hangouts Meet app from the Apple App Store or download the Chrome browser in the App Store (search for either Hangouts Meet by Google or Google Chrome in your App Store).

Mac instructions – install Chrome on your Mac. Jake explains how in this YouTube video.

Android phone instructions – either download the Hangouts Meet app from the Google Play store or use the Chrome browser which should already be on your phone. Logitech camera mac app.

PC instructions – install Chrome on your PC.

Download Hangouts For Mac

Once you have the app or Chrome set up, you just need to click on the link that is included in your invitation. You can do this from the appointment (if you use Google Calendar) or from the email invitation.