&gt; <i>Agreed. I&#x27;m unfortunately forced to use the Hangouts app on android since Google Voice was smushed into it (losing 90% of its best features in the process, like being able to mark voicemails as spam). So now I&#x27;m stuck doing my texting shoehorned alongside this other chat app that none of my friends use except by accident when they meant to send a text.</i><p>You can go into hangouts settings and turn off google voice handling.