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Google Duo now works simultaneously on your phone and tablet (Update: Some Chromebooks)
June 20, 2025
Update 09-07-2025 at 2:24 P.M. EST:In the article below, we talk about how you can finally use Google Duo on multiple devices at the same time. However, at the time we published the article, Chromebooks weren’t supported — even if they run Android apps.
It looks like that is changing, asChrome Unboxedis reporting that Duo is working on theSamsung Chromebook Plus V2,HP Chromebook x2, andAcer Chromebook Tab 10. Curiously, it is not yet working on Google’s ownPixelbook. But with some Chromebooks seeing support, it’s likely only a matter of time before Duo is widely available to all Chrome OS laptops, assuming they support Android apps.
Original Article (07/04/18):If you’re a regular user ofGoogle Duo– the video chat app that Googleconfusingly spun out from Google Hangouts– you likely have been frustrated with the fact that you’re able to only use the app on one device.
Today, perhaps to line up with Independence Day here in the States,Googleis lifting that restriction and enabling you to use Duo on multiple phones and tablets. However, your computer – even yourChromebook with Android support– is still a no-go.
Upon signing into Duo, you will at some point today or in the future be greeted with this screen:
That’s Google’s announcement of the policy change. Once you’ve seen that, your account is eligible for multiple-device usage.
Grab your second device (a smartphone ortablet) and fire up Duo. If the same Google account is already connected to that secondary device, then you simply acknowledge that and you’re all set: you may use the same profile on two different devices.
If you have a different Google account (or none) on the secondary device, you will have to add the one that’s on your primary device so that the secondary Duo knows to connect the two.
Using Duo on your primary and secondary device is pretty much the same experience. However, there is one notable thing that you can do on the secondary device but not the primary: sign out of your Duo account. On the primary device, you are only able to delete your account, but on the secondary device, you can either delete your account entirely or simply sign out of Duo to then sign in with a different account.
This makes sense as your phone number is connected to your Duo profile, and you can’t delete your phone number from your phone, so you thus can’t “sign out” of your Duo account. If you change your phone’s number (by swapping the SIM, for example), you would have to delete your account, not sign out of your account.
If this is all confusing, well…welcome to the Google ecosystem. Regardless, it is nice that we can finally use Duo on all the devices we own, even if that for some reason doesn’t yet involve Android-supported Chromebooks. Hopefully, that will come soon as well.
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