Google has pushed out a new update for the Hangouts App on the Android platform. The new Hangouts app brings the capability to view the SMS block list and also assign custom tones to the incoming messages. The Hangouts app update is already live in the Google Play Store.
Google had integrated the SMS Messaging capability inside the Hangouts app. That means, all your SMS messages and the Instant Message conversations would be available in one app. With that, Google wants the users to forget about any third party or even native SMS app.
Hangouts already allows the users to block the pesky SMS senders and with the new update, users can access the Block List to unblock the contacts. Just incase your friend apologized for bombing you with cheeky SMS.
Apart from that, the Hangouts app now lets the user choose custom sounds for messages and incoming Hangout calls. This is extremely useful to differentiate the tone for new message received or getting a Hangout call.
Get the new Hangouts app version 2.1.223 from the Google Play Store. For those who wish to remove SMS from appearing in Hangouts, do follow our simple guide for that here.