Manage Privacy Options in Google Hangouts on iPhone 6

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You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to manage the privacy options in the 'Google Hangouts' application on the iPhone 6.

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   To get started, press the 'Lock' button on the right-hand side of the phone

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   Alternatively, press the home button at the bottom.

   

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   Swipe across the screen to enter your passcode

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   Alternatively, press your finger onto the home button, which doubles as a fingerprint scanner, if the option is enabled. This will bring us to the home screen.

   

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   Open the 'Google Hangouts' application by tapping it

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   It's a green round speech bubble with 2 white quotes in it on a white background. This will take us into the 'Google Hangouts' application.

   

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   In this example, there are two invitations here

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   We can tap them to see who or what these two invitations are.

   

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   I have no idea who this person is, and they have sent me nothing more than a request, so we're just going to tap 'IGNORE'

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   This will allow us to report or block them.

   

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   In this case, we're simply going to ignore it and it will go away

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   Alternatively, if we want to be more secure about our invitations, we can tap on 'Invitation Preferences'

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   Here we can choose who can send us an invite, what types of people can send us an invite, and what types of notifications we receive.

   

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   We'll start with 'Everyone else - Can send me an invite' at the top

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   This says that 'Everyone else' can either contact me directly, send me an invite or can't contact me

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   Since we're not interested in Hangouts from anyone else, we're going to tap 'Can't contact you'.

   

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    People in my circles who I'm following, who are acquaintances, family or friends are all set to be able to contact me directly

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    That's not too bad, however, if we don't want people who we are following or acquaintances to contact us directly, we can tap them to change them.

    

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    We will tap on 'Can't contact you' for both

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    This leaves our friends and family, these are the people that we are interested in chatting with. We would be interested in receiving a notification from them.

    

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    If we don't want notifications, we can tap on the green switch to the right of 'Invitation Notifications'

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    I recommend leaving it on so that people we care about can contact us.

    

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    Once we're done, we can tap the back arrow in the top left corner

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    Now people we don't know will no longer be able to contact us.

    

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to block people and improve the security of the 'Google Hangouts' application on the iPhone 6

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    By using these tips and features, you will have a better and more pleasant experience with much less spam. Thanks for choosing VisiHow. Let us know of any comments, questions or suggestions in the section below.

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