There are interesting features and changes coming to Google Meet, which is also currently the company’s exclusive video calling service, replacing Google Duo.
Legacy Duo calling has been completely replaced by Google Meet. Although the Duo brand ended in 2022, the feature remained available in the Meet app until recently. Its deprecation, initially slated for September 2025, was delayed and has now been fully completed as of January 2026.
In recent weeks, the quite conspicuous “Meet calling will replace Legacy (Duo) calling” card that was impossible to ignore at the top of the Meet webpage vanished. Legacy call history and the associated “Calling (legacy)” settings panel have vanished from all of our devices during the last two days.
The key changes that were done in the final transition are
Final Migration: The unified “Meet” calling experience has been fully implemented. The Meet app no longer mentions “Legacy (Duo) calling” or the associated options section.
Feature Deprecation: Legacy features like Mirror mode, Family, and Knock Knock, which shared incoming video feeds at launch, are also no longer available. Google has included contemporary substitutes in Meet:
Moments (an on-device screenshot is an option). The standard on-device screenshots take their place.
Meet Saver Mode, an alternative to data-saving mode.
Family Mode: The new Meet calling interface no longer supports it.
Low-light option (some users can also utilize portrait touch-up and video lighting adjustment as alternatives). This is a substitution with portrait touch-up and automatic video lighting changes.
Live captioning, screen sharing, in-call chat, stackable effects, and cloud encryption are among the new features. Google Meet calling “defaults to being reachable at your email” in terms of privacy. To make the adjustment, select Settings > General and turn on “Only contacts can call me,” which translates to contacts.google.com. According to Google, outgoing group calls are not supported from Nest speakers or displays, but incoming group calls are supported on Nest displays.
Privacy & Reachability: Meet Calling now uses your email address by default. You must manually enable “Only contacts can call me” in the Meet General Settings in order to restrict calls to just your stored contacts.
Data management: Messages and call history from the past have been deleted. In order to prevent losing their historical data, Google had previously encouraged users to export it before January 2026.
New standard features that are introduced are features that were previously exclusive to planned meetings and are now part of the unified Meet calling experience.
In-call chat and live captions.
Stackable visual effects and screen sharing.
While previous connections were end-to-end encrypted, cloud encryption was the norm for Meet calls.
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