As explained by our colleagues at 9to5Mac, unlisted applications allow developers and companies to share their apps without having them appear in search results for the broader public.

In an interesting turn of events, Hangouts has now been restored to the iOS App Store in the form of an unlisted application. At the time, we noted that even the direct link to the app listing did not work.

On iOS, Hangouts was simply delisted entirely from the App Store, making it fully unavailable to anyone who didn’t have it installed at the time. In the case of the former, Google has simply made the app unavailable to those who haven’t installed it before, additionally hiding it from search results. This effort culminated last month in the app being removed from both the Google Play Store and the App Store. Surprisingly, the soon to be retired Hangouts app has returned to the iOS App Store, but only if you have the link.įor a few years now, Google has been steadily moving people away from its Hangouts app, migrating them and their conversation histories over to Google Chat (previously Hangouts Chat), which is also built into Gmail. At the end of last month, Google delisted its classic Hangouts app from iOS and Android app stores.

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