Hangouts as we know it has been slowly dying for years (sorry if this is how you're finding out). G Suite users are transitioning away from the classic Hangouts service this year, with individual users to follow soon after. Now there's another nail in Hangouts Classic's coffin: the app is no longer available on Wear OS.

You'll find that you can't install the app on your Wear OS device, either from the watch itself or from the Play Store web interface, the latter showing Hangouts as incompatible.

This item is not compatible with your device.

Google is slowly moving Hangouts users to discrete services for text and video chat — Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet, respectively — so it's possible the new apps will see Wear OS versions. But we can't know for sure, and in any case, Hangouts users are currently without a wearable solution.

UPDATE: 2019/03/08 9:40am PST BY STEPHEN SCHENCK

In a post to its Wear OS community boards, Google has confirmed the shuttering of Hangouts for its wearable platform:

"Hangouts on Wear OS by Google devices will no longer be available for download from the Google Play Store.

If you already have the Hangouts app installed on your watch, you will still be able to view message lists, send and receive messages, get notifications. If you are a current hangout user on Wear OS by Google, you can still access the app until you perform a factory reset on your watch or if you manually uninstall the app on your device."

So if having Hangouts on your smartwatch is important to you, treat that app with kid gloves; once it's off your watch it's gone for good.

Thanks: Adam Wright