When the new Google Pay app was introduced last year with a revamped interface, some users felt no compelling reason to switch and chose to stick with the old app as long as they still had the option. While we knew the app would hit the end of its useful life at some point, Google is now taking some formal steps to kill it.
In an email sent in the past two days, Google’s users are informing that the old app and the Google Pay website will lose their transaction capabilities (i.e. send or receive money) on April 5th. After that, you can do a lot of everything you used to do, leaving you the only option to switch to the new Google Pay app.
You also cannot see your past transaction history or view your remaining balance after that deadline. Of course, if you switch to the new Google Pay app, all that will come back to you. Google confirmed that these changes currently only apply to the US – and not the other markets where the new Pay app has not yet been released.
While the old app is getting obsolete, there’s no word on when the successor will shed its Early Access tag. But that certainly hasn’t stopped the new Pay app from adding some nifty features that can make your life a little bit easier, like the ability to get receipts straight from Gmail and Photos.
Finally, Google is also making some changes to Pay’s terms of service, including combining two of its existing ToS documents and raising the minimum age to use the service from 16 to 18. All of these policy changes will automatically take effect for everyone on April 5. You can go here to submit the updated terms of service once.
