Google Chat 4+

Mostly perfect.

This app is brilliant and I know this is only the beginning of a new chapter however well this is a brilliant start and a decent move from hang out, I still believe we should have the feature of voice calls and video calling from the chat option rather than having to set up a meeting just to reach somebody. I hope that you’ll add this feature soon.

Very heavy on battery

This app has some serious drain on battery on apple devices. On my iPhone 14 I can listen to music, play games, even stream on 20% battery which lasts me around 5hrs. Today I loaded google chat up on 23% battery, typed and sent ONE message and my battery went from 23% to 2%!! The same thing happens on my iPad and my iPhone 11. I don’t know what it is but something about this app is way off when it’s draining that much battery power in such a short period of time. If this was fixed it would actually be worth 5 stars.

Note:: To the developer, thanks for your reply. It’s nice to see a developer who actually pays attention. Very much appreciate your reply thank you. I’ve increased to 4 stars instead of 3. Stay safe.

Developer Response ,

Hi there. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We're sorry to hear that. We'll pass this along to the team so they can review and make the Chat app even better. Thank you!

Dreadful accessibility issues

Personally I have no problem using this app, but as a family we used Hangouts a lot and one of the family is partially sighted. Now we have all been forced to use Chat, the partially sighted member can no longer use it, as the accessibility options are virtually non existent. You can make the text larger, that it. The conversations aren’t in different colours, the text is all left aligned, and the text typing box and icons are all tiny and you can’t make them bigger. They couldn’t see where to enter text or where the send button was or anything. Hopeless. The entire family will now have to move to another messaging app. Do the developers ever actually test these apps with a partially sighted tester?

Developer Response ,

Hi there. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We're sorry to hear that. We'll pass this along to the team so they can review and make the Chat app even better. Thank you!