Peggy K's Creator News

I hope you all had a lovely Valentine’s/Galentine’s/Palentine’s day! This week we lost some old features in Hangouts and Contacts, got more clarifications about the Google+ shutdown, and some new features for Gmail and Google Assistant. Mr. Jingles Valentine posted February 14, 2014 on Google+ ( link to post ). The old Google Contacts interface was retired. This was announced for G Suite accounts last November , but there wasn’t any obvious announcement for consumer accounts. For us Plussers it makes a difference because the new Google Contacts interface doesn’t let you view your Google+ Circles. It’s still not clear how best to save that information.  Conversation notification settings in the classic Hangouts Android app are being simplified . On Android O or higher devices, customized ring tones and chat messaging tones per conversation or contact will be removed and default to the general app notification tone settings.  Small update on YouTube for Creators : b...

Update August 2019: YouTube DMs will be going away on September 18, 2019 Update October 2018: consumer Google+ is shutting down April 2, 2019. This will not affect your YouTube channel. Update July 2018: Messages has been retired and sort-of replaced by friend-based messaging . Note:  Old messages and contacts will be available until Dec 1st. 2014   The YouTube Inbox is going away , to be replaced with Google+-based "Messages". In a few days you will be able to download an archive of all your Inbox messages. But what about your Contacts? View and archive your old YouTube contacts YouTube Messages: the new system to send or receive a private message Create a Google+ Circle from your YouTube Contacts Send a private message to a group on YouTube or Google+