When you’re chatting with someone on Google Hangouts or Facebook Messenger, it’s not always easy to keep track of the important details of your conversation. To help remedy this issue, Google has announced that it will roll out conversation summaries in its Chat feature that allows users to read an overview of every message they’ve exchanged with each person they chat with regularly.

Once the rollout begins next week, messages will begin appearing as conversation snapshots, showing you key bits of information like when your friend messaged you and any photo or video attachments they might have sent along.

Introduction

Technology is constantly changing and this brings great benefits. The Chats service that Google provides has received a new addition which promises to make it easier to stay connected with friends and family. With Google Conversation summaries, you can skip reading the messages or sending the one-word responses with some ease.

These summaries are generated by Google so it's not just about skimming, but instead skimming your chats for you in order to summarize the most important details of your conversations. They may show what was last said, who replied to whom and how many characters have been typed. They even have an updates tab where all your chat notifications will be collected.

Plus, they have a read more button on every message if you want to go into more detail. As well as being able to tap on links right from the chat, without having to copy them or visit them on another app first!

What Is Google Chat?

If you're a Google user, you're probably familiar with the company's popular email service. However, did you know that they also offer a chat service? If not, it's time to get acquainted. Google Chat is a free messaging service on the web that lets you talk to your contacts in real time. It allows up to ten people to video conference at once and includes all of the features of Gmail chat: text, audio, video and file-sharing.

All messages are archived so it's easy to go back and review what was said or find an old message from someone. Messages will also automatically be summarized for you so that you never miss an important message--even if your friends like to type long messages! The summary appears as a headline and can be expanded to see the entire conversation. The summaries give you just enough information without being overwhelming--a very useful tool for those who have missed some detail because they were too busy checking their phone.

How Does It Work?

We often find ourselves in the situation of having too many conversations going on at once. It's easy to get distracted and forget what we were talking about or which conversation we are supposed to be participating in. Google is addressing this problem with a new feature called conversation summaries.

This new feature will provide you with a quick summary of your last message or notification. This will help you remember where you left off in your chat and make it easier for you to stay connected. 

1) To enable this option, open the chat that you want to update with the conversation summary feature and click on the 3 dots icon in the top right corner.

2) Select Enable Conversation Summary.

3) If the person you're chatting with also has enabled their conversation summary, then a box appears below the text box showing how much time has passed since either of you have typed anything.

4) If there is no text from either party, then that person's picture will show up instead of an empty space.

5) From now on when someone sends you a message or notifies you about something happening on Google like being mentioned in another post, then the summary will appear so that you can quickly see what they've been saying without scrolling through all their messages.

6) These messages are only seen by whoever sent them to you and not anyone else who may be viewing your profile unless they have also selected enable conversation summaries.

What Are The Benefits?

The benefits of the new messages summary feature are numerous. For starters, there will be fewer missed messages because Google will now give you a summary of what your friend just wrote to you in chat. The summary will include the message itself and a timestamp for when it was sent. It will also include your friend's profile picture and name (provided that you have their phone number saved). The extra information will make it easier to identify who is messaging you.

How To Get Started

To enable conversation summaries, go to Google's chat settings and tick the box next to Show me a summary of my chats. Note that this only works for Android devices and not for iOS.
For those who want to turn it off, just untick the box.

To see your summary, scroll down on your phone until you see the text Summarize chats. Tap on it and you'll get a rundown of all your past conversations. Just tap on one of them and you'll be taken to the specific message in your chat history.

Conclusion

This is a great way to ensure you never miss a message, while also keeping your chats organized and clutter-free. The conversations are summarized in your inbox and can be found under the Conversations tab.

There's no way of going back in time to see old messages so it's important to make sure you don't miss anything by using this feature! Once activated, this new feature will automatically show summaries for any group chats with more than 10 participants. If you're looking for even more summary coverage there are some ways to do that too: Filters help you organize things by person or subject line. To filter on a particular subject line (such as package delivery), go into the Settings > Incoming Messages tab > tap Include specific words or phrases.