While this is true, you’ll be able to download your history until January 1st 2023. After that, all of the Hangouts data will be deleted. Then, Google Hangouts will be gone for good.

Click “Download” to save the data to your device. You now have your Google Hangouts data safely backed up—but you can’t really do much with it.

Google is also encouraging users to use Google Takeout, the company's data exportation tool, to download their data before Hangouts ceases operation this November.