Some tech-inclined friends use Hangouts, and I don't communicate with them much because opening up Chrome decimates my battery life. That client was also very s

Some tech-inclined friends use Hangouts, and I don't communicate with them much because opening up Chrome decimates my battery life. That client was also very slow to adopt basic UI features such as copy/paste of images and drag and drop. Is there a hangouts app for iphone? Can you only use hangouts through Chrome on an iphone? I'm on Android and I've been very happy with hangouts. Works great moving seamlessly between my phone, tablet and PC. Saying that in the past they were slow to adopt those features is irrelevant now as the features you mentioned are currently supported. I would rather use an end-to-end encrypted chat app, but haven't been able to change over yet. I tried Chatsecure with a tech-savvy friend but could never get it to work. It would never handshake successfully. You could see the handshaking messages in Hangouts, so I know it was able to send messages and trying to handshake (both the ones I sent and the ones my friend sent), but it would never connect.