How to use Google Hangouts on your iPhone 1. Start the Google Hangouts app. 2. Tap the Contacts icon at the bottom left of the screen. 3. Tap someone in your contact list whom you want to chat with.

Following is a transcript of the video. Clancy: So I'm an Android user, and I used to use Google Hangouts to text. Syncing all my texts with my computer was great, but then Google killed Hangouts.

Text and video chat from Google. Hangouts was originally part of the Google+ social network but was separated in 2015. In 2017, Google introduced new versions of Hangouts for the enterprise.