Google Home App Reviews

VERSION
3.11.104
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
889,437
PRICE
Free

Google Home App Description & Overview

What is google home app? Create a more organized and personalized smart home with Google Home. Set up, manage, and control your Google Nest, Wifi, and Chromecast devices, plus thousands of compatible smart home products like lights, cameras, thermostats, and more – all from the Google Home app.

Personalize your home view.
Pin your most-used devices, automations, and actions to the Favorites tab for easy access right when you open the app. View your Nest cameras and doorbell live feeds, and easily scan through event history. Set up and manage Routines in the Automations tab. And quickly edit any permissions in the consolidated Settings tab.

Understand what’s going on at home with a glance.
The Google Home app is designed to show you the status of your home and keep you up to date with what you may have missed. Check in on your home anytime and see a recap of recent events.

Control your home from anywhere.
Turn on the lights, adjust the thermostat, or get an alert when there’s a person or package at your front door. With Google Home for Wear OS, you can control your home right from your compatible smartwatch.

A helpful home is a private home.
Protecting your privacy starts with one of the world’s most advanced security infrastructures, which we build directly into Google products so they’re secure by default. And Google uses your compatible devices and data to make your home helpful, but only in the ways you allow. Visit the Google Nest Safety Center at safety.google/nest to learn more about how we protect your information and respect your privacy.

* Some products and features may not be available in all regions. Compatible devices required.

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App Name Google Home
Category Lifestyle
Published
Updated 04 January 2024, Thursday
File Size 365.69 MB

Google Home Comments & Reviews 2024

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Too crowded, too many different shapes in one hole. I'm forced to use this app for Google Wifi. It is terrible. It offers not even the bare minimum control and functionality for a home network, and this Home app offers EVEN LESS functionality than the earlier, dedicated Google Wifi app. The app also crams my Google Nest Mini in there, as well as a slew of smart switches and lights, all of which are accessed in a different context than I'm trying to check on a device's WiFi usage. Too many different shapes - different interfaces, reasons to use the app - crammed into one place. As it is here, I just installed the app, and it claims my network is offline. Um, well... Hate to tell ya, but if you're reading this, clearly it is not. Anot example of tech apps presenting failures that they are sure is your (user's) fault, with no decency to let the user say "uh no, you want to check again or give me some details why you think that?". Nah, it's just convinced my network is offline.

Constant WiFi problems. The apps is on to something good but still has major connection and WiFi problems. I have kids and have them on a usage schedule through the Google Home app. I’m also using the google WiFi router as well. I constantly have issues where the WiFi will stop working for one of the computers or other device. The “pause” or “not pause” option (which is confusing anyways) always gets stuck or shows “paused” when it’s not or vice versa. This wouldn’t be a big deal if Covid didn’t have my kids schooling from home. I’ve stayed on top of updating the app but I still have problems. Another issue I have is connecting to 3rd party smart media. The interface is always confusing with too many options and flowcharts. Make it simple guys. I went to school for computer information systems and I get stuck sometimes, think about all those elderly folks, they probably have to hire someone to set up google products. Google has never been like Apple where it’s user interface is super easy to adapt to. The programmers need a separate user interface team for just about all of their software. You guys are good but you need some big changes.

Could be better.. Home mostly works but it still has lots of bugs. It stops playing streams at least once or twice a day. It looses connection to the internet. When I place a phone call, it thinks it is the first time I have used it, and reads me a boring script. It is difficult to manage notifications. A Reminder is easy to miss because it does not include an alarm sound. Although Google has access to my every word, they never seem to push software updates. It drives me crazy that it is not user configurable. If you speak to it it sometimes doesn’t respond, if you yell at it, two speakers respond. If you start a stream on one speaker, there is no way to add a new speaker when you move to a new room. There is no way to group lights and or speaker into a scene, So you have to turn them on one at a time or turn on all lights in a room. There are still limits to wireless switch and bulb configurations on the market. This is not Google’s fault but some smart rocker switches are incompatible with standard cover plates. There is no two gang switch yet. All wireless outlet units stick out of the wall and make the plug hit furniture, etc.

Google doorbell camera. Excellent picture in day and night. Think the price is fair but if they could get the price down to $100 I’m not sure they’d be able to keep them in stock. The 2 way speaker works great I can hear people clearly even when they’re whispering about us having a doorbell camera. Lol. The camera runs off of the Google home app and install of camera and setup of app is very simple. Set up everyone in the home to work the app from their phone. Also has facial recognition in a sense. You can type the names of people that are viewed by camera and once you do and select that you know them the next time they’re seen on camera you get a smiley avatar along with there name. Camera isn’t backed up off sight but you can store All footage on your phone from the time it’s activated and go through it anytime you want or might need to if there’s a reason for the police to see the footage. Only thing I would improve is that I received the notifications when they were 10 to 15 yards from camera as opposed to 5 feet from camera.. If I lived in a bigger city I would have bought one that is monitored but I live in a very small town with a very low crime rate. Hope this helps anyone looking to purchase a doorbell camera

Bad update for Chromecast. First, let me say my experience on the phone with customer service (Michael) was outstanding. He helped me fix the original issue. I had every item in our home set up, but I was unable to set up the Living Room. After hours of failed attempts, I got in contact with support. Michael walked me through a few different troubleshooting ideas to no avail. When he realized I was using the iPhone XR, he told me that was the issue. I had to get my son’s iPhone 6 to complete the set up. Great. Problem solved. An hour and a half later, all of the items in our household crashed. I attempted to walk through the steps Michael had provided. It all seemed fine, until it came to the last step (connecting to Wi-Fi), at which point, the TV showed my the screen with the 4 digit code...again. I went in circles for 2 more hours. I requested replacement Chromecast devices and Michael said he would definitely pass the word up. For everything in our house to crash and not reboot, I am guessing it has something to do with the update. After all, the last question it asked before I had to start over was, “Set up some smart lights”, which is actually more of a command than a question.

Routines Need Work. The overall app is solid, functions as it should. However, I am having great difficulty and frustration when it comes to the routines. There is only one routine option that allows for “non-voice starters” (aka times you choose to have something done like turning on a thermostat), which is the workday routine. I find it quite silly that even a custom routine category I created still cannot have more than one time slot (starter) where I don’t have to tell google to do it, but instead have it automatically done in the background. To add to my frustration, the one routine (workday) that does allow more than one time slot bugs out every time I try to add a time now. It will let me proceed to pick the time & action, but when it goes to save it cuts for a second and takes me back to the start of the routine—time and action unsaved. It sometimes allows me to do one or two after I’ve hard restarted my phone, but I’m unwilling to do that for every time slot I want to create. The app does work well otherwise, but I find that to be quite a silly feature. The entire point of having “starters” and automatic actions is so that I don’t have to tell google to tell my devices when to do.

Oh my god in 40 years as a system programmer this is the worst crap I have ever seen.. I have 2 3 node google matrix router sets. One in my home one in my vacation house. Went to make a change in router setup but the old command to setup router now only provides info and I have to go to google home to make router changes. Ok I hit the migrate button and I get a list of devices that does not include any google matrix routers. Now I would think that since the command I was using knows what devices I own it would bring up the correct devices in google home. Or at the very least document what I would need to do to set up google home. I thought I bought a google product but this crap is as bad as a Microsoft solution. Now I have 500 dollars of routers that will need to be replaced. This is a disgrace. And not the quality of a software solution I would expect for spending over 500 dollars for routers.

Video player is aggravating!!. Okay so my TV remote is broken, the volume down button is jammed, won’t work. I only watch my TV by casting onto it from my phone. So, ofc I could just go to this app and lower the volume of the video from there, right? Haha. WRONG. For some absolutely befuddling reason, it won’t properly lower the volume. It is SO strange, for ex., I’ll lower the volume to 50% it’ll show as 50% on my phone, but the actually sound/volume I’m hearing with my own ears is absolutely crazy, the sound goes up and down, up and down (increasing and decreasing) like wth!!? Why is it doing that?? My mom is sleeping right next door sick as heck cause we’ve all got covid, I have a headache, I can’t lower the volume, and when I attempt to do so with this app, it’s bouncing from being quiet as a whisper to blasting loud for no reason whatsoever. Please fix this!!!!! It’s the most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced with and app!!!

horrible.. the app is NOT user friendly. the help center is a joke. the talk help is an even bigger joke. if you click on some of the default question you “could” ask, some answer will be “i don’t understand”. how don’t you understand your own question. link devices is impossible to figure out. the help center just says to open setting. that’s all it ever says “open google home app and go to setting”. when setting doesn’t even let you do anything. the instructions for next step are super unclear. my google home wasn’t connected to wifi. google said to change it on the app. the app said to make sure in i’m on the same wifi. how can i be on the same wifi as my google home, if my google home isn’t connecting to wifi. then come to find out they meant go to the seething on your phone and change the wifi. so i did. change to wifi to my google home wifi (which isn’t really a wifi but i guess that’s how to access things??? idk). when i switches over now the app doesn’t work because it isn’t a real wifi connection. so i’m conclusion: i have a google speaker that can’t access wifi. a google home app that can’t access the speaker to change the wifi because it can’t connect to wifi. and when i try to “connect to the same wifi as the speaker” i can’t access the app. help center is a joke. the app is unintuitive. wouldn’t buy it for my enemy.

Google Home and its Hub is very beneficial!. Pros: Improved Home app certainly helps a lot! Especially for a Deaf person like myself. I bought the Google Home Hub due to its display to show information I need when I ask, freeing me from looking at the phone’s screen frequently. I use my phone to speak the commands to Google Home Hub, and it responds well from commands or answering my questions with information on display, certainly a wonderful feature! Cons: sometimes, when I ask a question, it doesn’t show the information, would end up speaking the information, so I had to modify the questions to make the Hub show the information, if it still fails, I use Google Assistant on my phone as an alternative. It can be frustrating sometimes! Otherwise, it’s huge step for Google to make their products as much as friendly for everyone. Keep it up Google! 👏👏

Google Home set up / multi vender devices... I am impressed with the google home app running on IOS devices.. Yes It would be best to purchase same vender devices if possible.. Step 1 load the specific app set ( sunCo lights+ewelink) in my devices choices.. Set up your devices first from manufacturing company.. After your devices are set up GOTO google[+] add devices Next find your devices in list of manufacturers Then press appropriate links..After all your devices of choice have been linked You may now delete manufacturers install/ set up applications.. The reason you want to delete manufacturers application.. 1 save on memory.. 2 Less confusions navigation of multiple applications.. At the moment as far as can tell horizontal format for devices is available.. A grid option format for devices buttons would be a improvement .... Update.. for grid options.. To group or room up your devices.. Create a label for your devices.. Google home will automatically arrange devices with numbers first then letters. So to arrange your devices priority .. 1 living room, 2 kitchen and 3 Bathrooms. Labeling with out a number will be arranged to bathroom, kitchen, living room..

Nest doorbell. When it works its great. I have owned the nest doorbell (battery) since day one. It is wired to home my va is 16. I noticed when someone would ring doorbell, I open the app and the doorbell would says its running off of battery power. Don’t know if it was a glitch or something else but I have never had to charge it via usb. Most of the time it will spot someone before they ring the bell since the latest update. Its been late and late in notifications about the doorbell sometimes a minute after the bell has rung. Today someone accidentally ran into my garage. The camera did not pick up anything of this event as far as sound. Which is strange. Thankfully the person came to me and I have that on video from the nest device incase I need it. I find it strange that a device this late past development is still having bugs to iron out. The app itself is a convoluted mess. Please stream line.

Just okay.. There is a lot of room for improvement.. TLDR[[ things that could be improved (simplier/intuitive menu, reorder/hide roommates devices that i don't want/need to see, so the ones i actually use aren't at the bottom) ]] this review started because i'm having to keep factory resetting my smart speaker so it shows up in my new office and not my bedroom at my old house) i've used this app with google products (speakers, mesh networks, chromecast, etc) for over a year now. I spend more time googling how to move devices/troubleshoot connection problems, etc than i would like. this is especially true since i moved into a new home with other users who have their own devices. i'm constantly paranoid about turning on my roommates lights off or on when they're sleeping because i can't hide their devices or even reorder them so they're bot at the top. the menu options are spread too thin, across too much menu. it's hard to find the function that i want, but you cam only do one or two things for a device in a certain menu. just put it all in one with a '...' for the less commonly needed functions. 😒😤

I love Google home. Google home mini has made my life better. Besides helping me with everything things I constantly find myself going back and saying “Hey google !” Needless to say this device saved my life . If you don’t understand or even care about technology. Then this product is NOT for you. Overprotective parents need to get over themselves and stop making everything a problem . We’re spied on each and every day.. by Google, Microsoft , Sony, etc everyday.. our internet providers are constantly watching us. If you don’t like devices and software that record you then DONT get this product. I don’t say or do anything that would get me in trouble so I have no worries. In the end wether you cut a device or service out to try and protect yourself or your family then you might as well live under a rock.. because your always being watched... Always

Cumbersome; limited controls. I expect more from Google. I have a Google Chromecast and Google Nest Mini, latest generation. Even though my Apple devices can readily find and pair with this hardware via BT and WiFi, the Google Home App consistently has trouble finding and pairing. There is no useful error message; Google Home simply displays an irritating graphic of falling shapes and suggests to “try resetting”. Useless! Further, Google Home has very limited controls. I can select devices and turn them on and off. That’s it. To cast, I must do this from individual apps. There is no reasonable way to use Google Home to adjust settings on the devices or help them to work together. Yes, I created “Rooms” and “Groups”, but these structures do not enable the most basic of features such as syncing audio/video from Google Chromecast across multiple devices (TVs, Speakers). And heaven forbid I want to Cast something from Chromecast directly to the Nest speaker while doing something independently with my phone: the Google Home app prevents this from happening by stopping the active cast from the Chrome device. Why the heck would you have this? At least add a toggle switch to selectively enable this feature.

Pure Disappointment. I am just disappointed at this point Google is a multi million company but yet they managed to make me hate a service and product like never before. Where should I start the app that hasn’t changed for years with many bugs or the product that also hasn’t changed with many bugs. The app is a horible experience it’s like I bought a cheap smart home device and only one person designed the app. I have a google nest thermostat now tell me why I have to open the app click on thermostat for it only to go into a loading loop click out of it go back to it and change the temperature JUST for it to change it back to its original state and then i have to keep fidiling with it until it decides to stay on the desire temputure next I have a google home mini 2 of them and a smrart display why when I speak to my smart display it answers from across the halway even tough i changed the sensetivity settings why does it have to think for 3 minutes straight when i say turn the __ lights off why does it do what it sposed to do after 3 minutes of thinking and then couple minutes after just screams something went wring try again later now i could keep going but i dont have the time just like i dont have to time to deal with a broken products that I spent my money on. Google youre a disgrace

New nest cam livestream problem. I just replaced my old drop cam with the new model provided free by google. To install the new camera I had to migrate to the new google home app. I uninstalled and threw away the old drop cam that was still working flawlessly after ten years on the nest app due to its upcoming end of support. The new camera and app are a big step backwards, most particularly the live streaming. The new system will only provide a live stream for about 6 seconds before it spools and them blacks out and says camera unavailable. The new camera is installed in the exact same location as the old camera that would live stream indefinitely. I have high speed commercial comcast internet and strong router. There is plenty of bandwidth as demonstrated by the previous drop cam working flawlessly for ten years. Don’t try to tell me the problem is my wifi signal or band width. Also, I migrated the paid up camera subscription. Without a live feed for more than 6 seconds at a time the new app and camera are useless to me. It seems a number of new camera users are experiencing the same problem with no acknowledgement, solution, or fix provided.

Setting up google wifi with google home. I am extremely unsatisfied with google wifi app migrating to google home app. Nothing is working properly, showing properly or can be re-set up properly. Trying to Setup and changes with google home app my google wifi’s. I have been using them since they first came out, just purchased 3 more of them. The google home app has so many issues and bugs while setting up and makes it impossible to remove a wifi network from a home. I have been a huge supporter of google and it’s products and always an early adapter to everything they come up with, however I have never ever had to spend more than 30minutes to set up a device before. Ever since all apps migrated to one google home app, it takes me at least a good hour or two to change the wifi network of my chromecast, and after 4 hours I have found it impossible to set up a google/nest wifi. I really hope that I wasn’t forced to migrate from the original app for google wifi that I was using without any issues.

What ITT Tech flame out designed this app?!. Google is a multi-billion dollar, Fortune 500 tech company and yet virtually any silicon valley startup can and has designed superior apps. The lack of an intuitive interface that leaves me searching for how to set preferences for temperatures for my nest thermostat, or to schedule those preferences, and the uninspired design that mistakes sparse and visually unappealing for “minimalism” just adds to the terrible user experience. If you’re going to create a minimalist control for smart home devices, then at least make the options you do present meaningful and functional. The almost psychotic, scatterbrained placement of functions (some preferences are in one place, others in a totally different, unrelated place) is maddening. At least start making your hardware compatible with HomeKit or even Geeni for god’s sake so the user experience isn’t destroyed by this app. Seriously, Geeni is a better smart home manager app… this scattershot, unintuitive interface is why I traded in my Galaxy for an iPhone and have never looked back, and this only serves to remind me why.

Missing important functionality of Nest. I have been using the Nest app for several Nest products, including many since Google purchased them. We just bought a 2nd generation indoor Nest cam but didn’t realize we cannot use the Nest app with it; it only works with Google Home. This is dumb, since it’s labeled as a Nest product. One big issue for us is that you cannot mute the audio from the cameras in the app, even when your phone is muted. This is a problem because we use it as a crib monitor next to our bed, and if the baby is fussing and we’re monitoring from bed, he’ll hear it and probably fuss more. This will literally cause us to lose sleep, in other words. Also, the camera histories are not as reliable in Google Home. On our doorbell, for example, images of the same event are viewable in the Nest app but Google Home says they’re not retrievable. Navigating to the camera histories is not as intuitive in Google Home and requires more clicks than in Nest. A similar but less significant issue is the format of the app. Nest has images/icons that are more informative and easier to quickly navigate than what is in Google Home. I was initially happy with Nest, but I’ve been increasingly dissatisfied since they were purchased by Google. The changes they’ve implemented suggest their primary goal is to collect data on my family and home, and the user experience has become secondary. I’m angry about being forced to use a lesser app and won’t buy another Nest product.

Great for Google products but camera viewing is buggy. So if you have Google Home products this is essentially the only app you can download to interact with those products. The app overall is pretty good and I feel like Google have done a good job over time simplifying the layout and making this apps usability better. But there is still some issues. The most buggy and unreliable part of this app is the when I try to view the cameras I have. Sometimes I will tap the cameras icon and the app will just force quit completely. When I am able to view my cameras if I sit there for more than five minutes the camera feed will just freeze and I half to reload it. Other than these problems I also find that when I am trying to do other things within the app it can be finicky when I am scrolling.

It’s great but…. The app has some major advantages over its competitors which is nice to see a change of pace but it’s not without its shortcomings, this app allows for a wide variety of products to use and sync with virtually no cost other then an assistant and the product itself but that’s to say how other more costly products are not so useable with this interface and the app is very restrictive when it comes to customization. I’ve written reviews for a few smart home interfaces and just would wish to see more connectivity among my products and services instead of having to result to expensive complex hubs and servers and huge data work which if your not a computer programmer is almost impossible to get into I wish the rivalry between companies would end and focus on bettering their own systems instead of blocking each other out I wish it was up to the consumer to be able to choose and build their ecosystem how they choose and not what the customer can afford and knowledge capacity allows for.

Violation of child privacy a real concern. I bought the Google Home for a convenient and fun way to stay connected and try something new. Only after using it for two days did it dawn on me that everything my 5 year old was saying to it was being recorded and stored on Google servers. He loved it. “Hi Google” could have gone on for hours if I let it. I work in software development and decided to look further into where things stand with smart speakers and Child Online Privacy and Protection - COPPA (including the collection of children’s personal information, audio, video and images). Bottom line - I couldn’t find anything addressing it. Some concerns have been raised that might lead to legal action at some point, I also saw articles alluding to future patents that could make the listening tech even more invasive. Imagine ads targeting your kids based on conversations you’ve had with them at dinner. These have somehow been sold into millions of homes with a loophole. For now I decided retire the Google Home. I deleted the multiple voice recordings of my son that had been stored via the Google Home app and can only hope that they are permanently gone from Google servers too.

LOG IN with your Google home app😡🤬🥵. Well coincidence or maybe not-since you’ve been tweaking the bug fixes. I now have bugs. I didn’t have any problem until a week ago with my Google dot. One upstairs & one downstairs. The one downstairs keeps telling me that I need to LOG IN with my Google Home app. The upstairs one still works fine, so it’s not the Wi-Fi. YES- I have unplugged the downstairs one for a day, replug it back in still the same. I unloaded the downstairs dot from the Google app, deleted app from phone, then reloaded the Google Home app and resynced the dot, and it’s still saying LOG IN with your google home app. It’s driving me crazy. I just went online to see if I could do anything else to resolve the problem and notice there’s thousands of people with reviews saying the same thing that this has happened in the last week to three days. Let’s get it together google! So much is stressing us out in this world, don’t make our safe home space just as stressful. Please correct this matter.

Irksome, poorly designed (T-stat use only). Edited after a season's use. Just don't. An advance that is far worse, cumbersome and otherwise difficult to use. I would put the old t-stat back if I hadn't recycled it. Junk. Overall, feels a bit like an acquisition they now regret and will let die. Like others say, the app is cumbersome, slow, and awkward. Using this for an old-style Nest t-stat obtained from my electric utility. As an example of poorly thought-out operation (that is, privileging circuit design over utility) it took me longer to find out which device version it was than to put it on the wall. (A page of text would be much better than lots of fun bouncy graphics-we're installing things like thermostats, not playing). Yes the device is an improvement (and is the only reason this isn't a one-star review), but really, it's easier to set the thermostat manually if you are away than it is to do it here. Just more things to go wrong with no actual advance. PS I really, really dislike the lack of a sign out in this app. Update 3/23: Pleasantly surprised that it has operated more or less faultlessly since setup, so will add one star (now 3) as I add another device to a different furnace. Just my opinion, but the secret seems to be to keep it local only (don't attempt anything other than in home & on same network) and use a simple routine-the rest is just a problem in search of something to do aka unnecessary.

Google home keeps falling short. Compared to Alexa: (1) home hub doesn’t show the time at night (the “ambient light sensor” turns the screen 100% black) (2) can’t call a specific room (3) can’t play a song without blabbering for a minute about every artist and service involved (4) can’t set family reminders that go off for everyone (5) the hub devices can’t hear anyone speak well (6) google can’t play popular songs like the Lion King (featured in their own commercials) without manual intervention otherwise they play knockoffs (7) will only play white noise for an hour unless specified (8) don’t have a quiet mode so if you ask something at night have to listen to it scream across your house nonsense like “this is what white noise sounds like” (9) assistant only sometimes connects to the devices and when it does it can’t even perform the same tasks (eg play white noise) (10) Hub doesn’t display the time if the hub is doing anything besides nothing which makes it a terrible bedside device -even white noise turns off the clock which is stupid by every measure

It is really great except privacy. I feel like you lose privacy but google nest mini is awesome to have as an assistant. I just purchased my boss the google hub max with zoom video and google duo. Otherwise the device is great. Google should really send confirmation that your data is purged after time with proof and certification. Just meet a middle ground with privacy and we will have the new standard top AI interface. Most people get upset with google home / past nest and device compatibility issues but things got a lot better in this year with less hardware to home and nest issues. Google communicates better as 3rd party is now open to interface to google home with their software. You have to be tech savvy to run any complicated networks. I have google controlling thermostats, security cams, lights, air conditioning smart tv and blue tooth speakers. If you aren’t a general expert in networking you will struggle. You need professional IT because all my stuff works great.

Worst device. I purchased chromecast with Google tv for my daughter. Between it never being able to “connect to network” during setup, despite any other device using wifi having zero issue, to not being able to update when trying to reset, not being compatible with apps such as Disney without doing an entire reset/update (see previous to problems with resetting/update) to not being able to sign into google account once finally connected to network. It’s a never ending loop of problems for a subpar product. If you want a replacement, you have to authorize a hold on your credit card until they receive the old device, verify it’s defective and send you a new one. So, weeks without a device (and therefore tv) while paying double for the product until you decide to replace it?? I can get a roku for half the price and it does all the same things, with zero issue. I would never purchase this again. Zero fixes for problems, hours wasted trying to setup or get customer support. The absolute worst.

The home that never connects. At first Google home was amazing. It was reliable and my music subscription would always work. However, a few months ago something happened. I’m not sure if it was a new update or the introduction of an additional google home, but everything started failing. At first it started with my music subscription. On occasion it would disconnect and I would either get a notification that too many people are in the account or the music would just stop without explanation. The issues progressed to connectivity. Now my app was not able to discover one of my two google homes. The device was constantly “out of range” or “not on the same network” but in reality it was just the apps inability to establish connection. I went through the motions of resetting my network, resetting my devices and even starting fresh and deleting my google home and recreating it. Nothing worked. Creating a new home in the app made thins particularly bad because now the app doesn’t discover any of my google home devices and my music accounts will no longer sync. The device have turned into nothing more than glorified Bluetooth speakers and that only when the Bluetooth function decides to work. All in all this started off great and I was super excited about being able to create a mesh network of speakers in my home. However once I started experiencing issues there had not been a solution and the troubleshooting attempted have all been extremely time consuming.

GOOGLE IS A JOKE. I don’t know what it is anymore and i’m going crazy literally crazy trouble shooting for hours a day just so i can watch tv. My chrome cast has never really had issues over the years but Then 2023 happened. My chrome cast disconnects from my wifi constantly and i’m talking 5-10 times a day it’s actually ridiculous. So i try all the typical restarting my router, my modem, factory reset the chrome cast. I contacted my internet company to see what was wrong with my wifi they said nothing but i didn’t believe them so i got a new router and modem and we were working again!! for about a day…. then the cycle started again. I have even tried to creating its own personal ip address because i thought my routers ip may have blocked the chrome cast due to unstable network and not even that worked and that always works. So today i have come to the conclusion that the chrome cast was and is a waste of money do not do it to yourself your sanity is more important. if i could post this review with zero stars i would but i can’t so at least they get a star for existing. Going to get my new roku today!!

We’re loving it!. My husband and I have had our Chrome cast for a hot minute, and we absolutely love the fact since we don’t have a “smart” tv that now it feels as if we do have a “smart “tv with this awesome little device that is hooked up to our tv now.... Its extremely easy to use, especially if you do have kids, which we do, have a son who just moved out, but when he comes and visits us we can have FAMILY movie night and everyone can pick something on whatever app you have and play it from on of our Cell Phone’s!! I’m just so happy that we invested in the Chromecast, because eventually we may just get rid of Direct, all together!! The Chromecast, is kinda like our 2nd kid that we never had, but now it’s apart of our family forever and brings us joy and happiness in everyone’s life, thus far!! Thanks!!!

New Nest Doorbell Battery. In a nutshell, not good, but then again it was released just yesterday. Most of the negative is with the video history and the lack of options to delete. If you look at something that was detected, there’s no way to delete that particular video from the screen where you watch it. The ONLY way to delete videos at this time is to delete all of them at one time, you cannot delete single videos. With Ring, and I have an app version that’s working fairly well and you can at least select which ones to delete. Also with Ring you could get a preview upon opening the app. With the new Nest doorbell, it just says the camera is “Idle” and you have to go to live view to see what is currently happening. So, Nest doorbell developers, this system needs some work. Also, the doorbell has a built in battery, so what happens in about 2-3 years when the battery gives out, can the battery be replaced or would I need to buy a new $180 doorbell ??? UPDATE 9/2/21: Returning the Nest doorbell battery. Tech support is worthless, the interaction with Google Home is terrible. and the lack of a replaceable battery just caps it off. Too bad, I expected better.

Worst Functionality and UX. This is the most popular designs user experience and software architecture I have ever seen. The most basic functions are buried and things that should be simple or convoluted. Things that are easy on the Alexa app like grouping lights and then sharing lights between groups are nearly impossible on Google without creating stacks of ‘routines’. They haven’t figured out the concept of lighting groups and make managing the devices between homes or rooms needlessly burdensome. To create a routine turning on six lights in my living room requires no less than 76 button taps (yes I did the math). Then, the routine is not actually a group but just a shortcut so you actually have to make another word queue and do all of that again to make them turn off with a word as well. We are over 150 clicks on your smart phone navigating three screens, times six lights, times two commands (on off) for a total of 36 page navigations required. All of this to make a set of lights ready for simple on and off control.

Home Mini volume changes randomly. I have Home Mini speakers in both of my young children’s rooms. I play calm, quiet sleep music all night for them. I specifically and deliberately set the volume to 40-50% depending on the playlist. For months, more and more frequently I’ll notice in the middle of the night (around midnight, weirdly) the volume on both of their speakers will completely randomly shoot up to 100%. I have no idea why it’s happening, but it’s the most infuriating quirk about these speakers. I noticed my youngest tends to wake up every single night around midnight, and this has got to be why. A while back I thought I fixed it setting Night Mode from 7p-7a supposedly limiting volume to 40%, yet just 15 min ago my child woke up so I went in and the speaker was ABSOLUTELY BLARING. My child is crying awake and now scared. I am so mad at this product. What kind of a weird glitch could this be? Almost seems intentional how routinely this happens. If it weren’t for my children’s sake I wouldn’t be so upset about it, but it’s like someone is intentionally making these speakers blare in the dead middle of the night. Unbelievable. Please make a setting that ACTUALLY prevents speakers from changing volume at night. PLEASE FIX THIS!

Hit and miss. Manually the switches work ok, connecting to the TV will only work some times. Chrome cast is a pain. I did a lot of work and is not paying off. I ask for a specific song and it only works on a single speaker, if I am using a group of speakers, google plays what ever it wants. I got three chrome cast and they were fine at first but after a few weeks voice commands to chrome cast stoped working on all three. Google says it doesn’t recognize that device, I reset to factory, start all over and nothing. I am getting board of this I am thinking of going back to apple TV. What a waste of money. I have 5 nest cams and they connect and disconnect constantly, that problem came after google took over. I am angry about that security problem. I tried everything to have the system recognize only my voice so people couldn’t open my garage or my front door, that does not work. I even had a google tech help me set that up, thats not safe, anyone who knows what I named the door can simply ask google loudly through my glass window or glass door and it opens anything. Google is not safe . I regret all the money spent on this worthless system.

Tried it a bit more today. HOPEFUL. Update 4/24 I have been testing the ap MANY NEGATIVE REVIEWS r generated from Google Nest displays have become super unusable in recent months. I live out my hardware but find another brand. This so reminds of The IBM PC AND THE SATURN AUTOMOBILE There is potential here BUT! Update 3/7/23 It works a lot better. The Nest hardware was more expensive and made well. Not everyone is wealthy. That is easy to forget. Some realize the complexity. Nest would talk to you. Years ago I told them of a bluetooth problem. Fixed it next day and advised me. I have lots of this stuff and it was my interest and my profession. The isolation of these systems and how we are treated. It is the best way to let you know the problems. Cameras go in and out not in the Nest app but on our Google display hubs. Worse in last two weeks. Tons of bandwidth fiber direct PLEASE! It is a nice system please fix it. I and others ‘EARLY ADOPTERS dating to ‘70’s’. Understand its complexity and in UTTER AMAZEMENT!!

Very Disappointed with this Google mini I just got for my early birthday present last month.. My boyfriend set up Google Mini but not all the way I downloaded the Google home mini app and then I found out I had to download the Google assistant app and then I had to download the Google Drive app. so I had to have 3 apps on my phone to work the Google mini completely and then it was working fine until I want to make personal phone calls and I said hey Google call this person and it said cannot find contact in phone and I called Google and I was on the phone with them for 3 hours. I reset the Google me unplugged it and still didn’t work. so I am returning them. I think Echo Dot is a lot better then Google home mini. At least my boyfriend gets his money back. Don’t buy Google mini unless you want three apps on your phone. Also it came with no instructions on how to set it up. you had to download google home app plus goal assistant plus Google Drive very disappointed it had 2 of them and they were on sale at the time.

Nest integration is horrible. So the integration with Nest is horrible. The feature to set up sound detection for Nest Aware worked ok, but now that option is missing under settings. I wasted 2.5 hours with chat support, passed between 6 people . They had me try all sorts of things that could not have anything to do with the app not having the option. I asked to be escalated to a supervisor and always got the run around that I just needed to try a few things more first. I asked for the case to be escalated at least 10 times. When “Wendy” asked me to go borrow a phone from someone and test on it, I lost it . When she asked me to send a screenshot of my account info, which has personal identifying information, I finally ended the chat. If you are not in the Google echo system and expect their Nest products to work with their Google Home products, run away quick. If you expect any sort of functional support for their products, run away quick. I would strongly suggest avoiding Google for your smart home solution. They are definitely a monopoly who could care less about their customers.

Doesn’t work well with Google nest routers. Google home always shows Google mesh routers to be offline when they are not. I have tried getting help, but the response from support is that it is a bug in the google home software. There is no way to communicate with anyone at google home who can fix the problem. This appears to be poorly written and poorly supported software. If anyone in the Google Home team would like to respond, that would be great, but it’s unlikely. Stay away from this app if you can. Update in response to developer’s comments: Suggestion to turn off IPV6 is a red herring (I don’t use it). Restarting and reconfiguring from scratch also does not work to fix this problem. If you read the google home forum messages, you will find many people have the same problem and have tried the same useless suggestions. The problem is recognized by support as a google home software issue, but I can not rule out google nest nest router firmware issues. After at least 4-5 months of complaints, nothing has been done to fix this. I would like to believe the suggestion that Google is “looking into it” but I a skeptical at this point. A number of Google forum members are starting to abandon google devices due to the poor response to this problem.

Camera Interface is Terrible. I’ve had Dropcam, turned Nest, cameras for over ten years using the Nest app and Nest website to view the footage. I recently bought a few more cameras and learned that I had to view all of my new cameras through the Google Home app. No problem. It seemed kind of cool to have all of my smart plugs, cameras, etc in one app. Then, I started using it regularly to view the cameras and holy cow is this interface terrible. Let me freely scroll, without buffering, through my videos. Please. I do this regularly on my Nest app for my old cameras. Also, I can’t believe I’m even having to say this but let me view my cameras on a desktop. I was blown away when I went to view my cameras on a desktop (because the scrolling feature on my phone is such garbage on Google Home) only to discover that there’s no way to review my footage on a desktop. Google, you were given a perfect app when you acquired Nest. How did you mess it up so badly? Please, please play around on the Nest app and match your Google Home app exactly. They did the hard work for you. Don’t reinvent the wheel. Nest app is far superior to Google Home.

SO DISAPPOINTED- go back to the old Nest app!!!!. This app is terrible. I have been a Nest customer for years. Forcing migration to this app is fine but the layout is absolutely awful. Forcing customers with older products into new products because of the lack in features from the old app to this one is seriously enough to make me want to invest in something else! I own a oldschool dropcam, a new battery cam, doorbell, thermostat, and thermostat sensor. I also subscribe to membership monthly for video history. I’m telling you I’m really disappointed in this app. You can’t view all cameras in one feed (have to click on one by one individually), you can’t access settings for doorbell (ie. bandwidth preference, alerts, etc), no ability to customize thermostat schedule, and on the old app once you click on the camera from the live feed (OF ALL CAMERAS AT ONCE), it displays screenshots of every motion/sound alert so you can easily scroll through the “events” for the day. If you have an old camera, you won’t be able to see history without clicking on a ton of buttons. Yet, I purchase the new battery cam and I CAN view history easily with a timeline feed?? I could go on about my disappointment in Google for the lack of care in this app compared to the old.

This is perfect. This is the best product that Google has ever made the assistant is wonderful she is what a assistant should be unlike Siri Siri is not a actual assistant it was very easy to set up once you connect the speaker to your account and you set up your routine and everything else you really do not need to go into the app I do not understand what these people are complaining about in adding users it’s really simple most of these people are complaining for nothing why would google let Apple Music be on its product if you won’t to use Apple Music with a speaker by the HomePod it is really easy to set alarms in delete alarms it’s nice to know about your day when you wake up and get the news it is also nice and wonderful to walk into your home and ask it to do what you want perfect product good job Google

This app was absolutely terrible. A couple years ago I got my Google dock and I decided to connect it to my iPad and in the middle of connecting it I was connecting it to the Internet I connected it to my only Internet which was a private network it wasn’t public and it just wouldn’t connect I have perfect Wi-Fi there is absolutely nothing wrong with it I’ve been trying to connect it to my iPad for months and that’s the only thing it ever says it’s absolutely stupid and then I go look for help and then I see that it says it only works on iPhone 11’s plus which is absolutely stupid because not everybody has an iPhone 11 I only know one person who does and the app should I just expect everybody to have the newest iPhones and androids and then One time it worked but then it stops working it literally just stops it won’t do anything you want any press anything it’s just terrible I give this a one star won’t connect to the Internet works but then it stops working and when I go to the help menu it’s just useless one star review

UI/UX terrible compare to Nest. I was just strongly encouraged to migrate from the Nest app to Google Home and while everything appears to work, the experience is a huge downgrade. The Nest app had a flow of devices with relevant content. For each thermostat, it showed the settings and current temp. I only had to click through to the device of I wanted to make changes. In Google, I have to select the category thermostats and then an individual device before I see any information. That's two additional clicks pet device instead of just being able to see it all at once. In Nest, I could invite anyone to join the home by entering their email address. It would send them an email invite with a link that would walk them through setting up their account. In Google, it simple tells me I can only add people with a Google account. I have to tell them to go setup an account on their own and then add them later. That is not a friendly experience. I can only see one camera at a time. In Nest, I could see them on a single page and then choose one to get a full page view. And finally, the color scheme is much more stark and less pleasing. This app is in every way worse than what I had with Nest. It works. But from a user experience standpoint, it is a huge disappointment.

Rich home-system-management ecosystem. Google Home is the best home-management ecosystem I’ve used (and I’ve used others). It makes integration with other systems generally very easy and useful. Today, in fact, I had some motorized screens installed and was able to easily integrate the screen system with Google Home and now all of my routines are richer b/c they involve the screens now too (in addition to the lights, music settings, thermostat I already had set up). I’m particularly a fan of the ability to include the google home speakers into multiple groups - allows so much more flexibility that other home systems which operate only on a one-to-one basis for speaker/group. I’m a total fan and will keep enriching my home ecosystem as we make improvements. One thing I’d like to see them improve is to “see” the state of the system more robustly. If someone else starts music on our home system and I later look at my already-opened Home app it doesn’t show music playing - I have to fully close the app and re-open, at which point it recognizes that music is playing.

Great in theory, hard to live with in reality.. We purchased Nest Wi-Fi and a Point for our home network. The router and point are fine. A bit spotty on reliability. In order to use them you need to use this app. At first I thought it was decent. I liked having one app for my smart home/network management and monitoring controls. Made sense to me. The lay out is decent as well. Where it all started to fall apart was in actually using it for managing and monitoring devices. My router always shows as disconnected. It isn’t disconnected. I can click it and it shows as connected and I can control anything on it. I have a TV that runs Google TV. I’m supposed to be able to control settings of the TV and use the in app remote to control it. It worked great for about a month. Now the remote no longer works. I can get it to work if I reset my TV but then the app crashes and when I start it again it says my TV needs to be updated. It also will not let me change settings on the TV. It just gives me an error. Because we are forced to use this app for our router I have to mention that some features are missing that other mobile router apps support. Such as on router VPN setup. I wanted to like it, but mostly I hate it. If they can fix these stupid problems it would be great. The layout and potential is awesome. Hope Google can focus more on this now that they seem to be cutting fat as a company.

Horrible. As with just about all of my nest products I’m mortified at how horrible this app performs. I’m so invested with nest at this point I feel stuck after buying a massive bundle package a year or so ago. They’re app crashes constantly and takes forever to load anything. They’re notifications would rather focus on shadows and bugs then the mail man or cars in my driveway. Their previews never load and instead I get a blank screen. While using the app or in between opening the app I am constantly logged out as is my wife on her phone. The quality of my WiFi doesn’t seem to matter but cameras are co stay my offline. The smoke detectors are constantly giving false smoke detections giving me a heart attack. They’re support is horrible and says use the google home app. Well that apps worse as you can’t open the app and see your cameras. You have to click on every camera to see it and it loads just as slowly and horribly as the nest app. I’m about to just throw it all in the trash and drop a bunch of money on a better product. You’d think a massive company like google would be on top of their tech and have something as sought after as this preforming like the public would expect it to do. So yourself a favor and look into other security options.

Bring back the shopping list!. Please please please re-integrate the shopping list feature into the Home app! Aside from playing music, adding items to the shopping list—primarily groceries as we run out of them—is our primary use for our Google Home. While it was a bit buried in the settings, being able to manage our shopping list from our central home app really removed stress from our daily routines. The list was always a little tricky to use and could definitely still use some UX love, but attempting to use it in the Shopping app is awful. I have to re-selected the shopping list every time I navigate to a browser to reference the recipes informing my list. It’s way too easy to delete an item when I’m trying to move it. The experience is so bad I’ve found myself using it less. Planning our grocery runs is a definitely a core home activity. Please bring it back to the Home app!

Good until they decide you need a new app. Why in the world does Google find it necessary to constantly force obsolescence onto apps that were working just fine? My Nest system and my Google WiFi have worked fine for years. Suddenly I get warnings that I won’t be able to use Google WiFi anymore unless I migrate to a new app. No explanation is given as to why they’re going to torpedo their own app. They just decide they’re going to change the paradigm one day (I guess they got bored with how well everything’s been working thus far) and then all of their users have to adjust to an arbitrary new way of doing things that offers little to no practical benefit. So many companies seem to operate like this. Every couple of years they just shuffle all their products around and call it something new. I guess it helps them sell new units? That’s a good reason to inconvenience all of your existing users—the possibility of maybe getting a few more users. Then you can inconvenience them in a couple years too.

It used to work…. Until bought by gOOgle. Now the thermostat schedule does whatever routine it desires. Or it is controlled by ERCOT as many people think. We have night heat set to 68, yet wake to 65 every morning. During the summer, evenings are set to 70, yet at 4:00am it’s 78. For me, it’s hard to sleep that warm. After the thermostat, we got the doorbell. It used to work. Now, not so much. No more notifications that someone is at the door, or they rang the bell. We still get a standard ring, from the chimes. I am in the room next to the door, hear someone walk up, the software takes 2 minutes to connect to the camera. At that point, the person has rang the bell a second time, and left. I used to work as system Quality Tech, I would never allowed this firmware to ship. My wife wants to add a couple cameras to our home system. But given the poor performance of the Nest doorbell, I am thinking we need to cut our losses and switch the entire system. Maybe separate smart thermostat and camera/doorbell systems.

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Glitchy and temperamental. I have a disability and require my smart home to turn on and off many devices (over 50). More often than I would like I find that Google home stops turning things on and off with voice commands, even though Google itself says it’s doing it. The lights, fans et al remain unchanged. I don’t have the ability to go round and unplug everything, reset everything, reinstall everything, or basically go through the whole setup procedure every time the system stops working. So my smart home that is designed to help with my disability becomes a hindrance. I wish Google would provide support for people like me.

Google Home User Feedback. Great app and concept for casting. Enjoying the practicality of the functionality but would have been experiencing a few drop outs with the google chrome dongle on occasion where the app does not pick up the device and I generally restart the dongle and it becomes available again. Also not difficult to use the app but would love to see a slightly more intuitive layout.....possible that it already is, just my logic not keeping up but just my experience.......keep up the good work

Works with amazing ease!!. Works on my new Apple phone. I panicked when I was on the way home with my first Apple phone in 10 years (you can thank iTunes for that). I figured all my google home automation would be inaccessible. Google rules, they wrote all the apps needed to get it all running in less than the time it took me to download and login.

Google Home. This might be a little premature as I am just a day since getting a Nest Mini, from my forward-thinking son, who I can proudly say, has educated me and brought me out of playing, PacMan or Mahjong and into being able to talk with a computer The set out is incredibly simple to use and mind-blowingly vast, in what it can do for you. Once I learn more about this wonderful gadget, I will be pleased to share my experiences with the you, in an update!!

No option to delete spam request email in Google Home App. I love the Google Home Hub but recently received a spam email and cleaned it from all devices and backups. Unable to remove from the Google Home App. Only option at present is to to Invite to Home Group. There Needs to be an option added to the Select People dialogue box that allows you to delete these requests.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!. This app has ruined google home for me. Google home was working fine for 6 months with no complains. I wanted to connect voice recognition so I could set specific reminders etc, however as soon as I recorded my voice it no longer responds to me. It lights up when I say “ok google” however she doesn’t respond when I give commands or ask questions. I have tried re-recording my voice several times, disconnecting google home from power & unlinking my voice from the app, however nothing has worked & the speaker is now useless to me. I have noticed a few other people have this same issue in the google forums, however there’s no reply or answer from google. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!

Amazingly integrated smartness. I have recently started to make my own smart home. I am amazed by how google home manages all different stuff just by my voice commands. It’s also really easy and straightforward to work with. There are also lots of options available for detailed control of the smart devices, especially the google products themselves.

Issue with deleting devices from routines. Despite a device no longer existing on google home it still comes up in routines. This then makes the routine not run properly. I’ve tried deleting routines but still to no avail this does not solve the problem and the old devises are still there. I see on forums that this has been an issue for awhile now.

A bit of a joke for a company the size of Google. It groups your lights in a room and there is no way to split them. So if you have a 2 lamps and 4 down lights you have to drill down and turn on the lamps individually if that’s all you want on. Trust me, you’ll get tired of it. The routines run an hour early suddenly. No changes from my side and everything checks out. Problem has been around since at least 2018 from my research. It’s 2020 now and no responses from Google to people asking about this. The user experience is amateur. There is no way to jump to a room. You have to scroll down each time. I have a fair few rooms and it’s tedious for sure. Make a grid like security cam viewers have. If you add 10 lights you can’t do a multi select of all 10 and assign to a room. No, it has to be done 1 at a time. I could go on, but this is like one of those apps written by the most inexperienced programmer on the team. It just smacks of inexperience. I wonder if the staff of Google actually use it? Surely, they would find this unacceptable.

Helpful but bugs. The Google home is great to connect to my chrome cast on the TV and send videos directly into the TV which are playing. Google home provides the ability to ask simple queries but if you don’t ask the query in the correct fashion it says “I can’t help you with that”. There are a few little bugs where Google is asked something and if there are other devices in the house it sends multiple packets to all the devices and clogs up the Wi-Fi network. This bug is being resolved by Google with a patch.

Good but with 1 annoyance. I don’t yet have the Home device, but i use this app with a Chromecast, Nexus TV and 2x Chromecast Audios. All pretty intuitive and not hard to setup. Once it’s going, it is a great system which works well and is pretty family friendly. My big annoyance is that while you can ‘group’ the audio devices for multiroom music or audio, you cant include any of the video devices in this. I’d love to be able to watch a concert or something on a TV and have it stream the sound to all connected speakers, but no can do. Please fix!

An app process that could be more efficient. When moving, for example from the end of one movie on Netflix to the next, you have to exit the movie and go to the next. I would suggest if possible a feature that makes it easy to click the next movie. Like a easy flow on instead of the screen pausing on the tv, having to disconnect google chrome then connect again on the new movie.

Update idea. The app has come a long way!! And I love it I use it everyday with my many devices I have linked to it, including lights routines and my display. I do have a suggestion to add to the routines though.. there should be an option to add a on off switch to the routines we make. as I have different set times I wake upto with a routine I have so I can use the same routine but at different times during the week.. I hope that makes sense and keep up the good work google!

Disappointing. This app although sporting a nice layout is beyond frustrating. I have two Google nest minis which I received from my mobile Phone provider as a gift. I should have declined the offer! Set-up is easy enough to navigate, but time and again these nest mini devices drop out and stop responding so I am forced to factory reset and do the whole dance again and again. Menu after menu of settings to tweak and they always seem to double up the same controls or settings info and scatter it across the app in odd spots. I set it up, functions ok. I do not use these devices daily for chit chat or performing tasks via assistant. I simply want the speakers paired and ready to play music when required. But the time the mood strikes to stream some music the connection has inevitably crumbled again and I receive the dreaded “sorry something went wrong message yet again”. It takes all my self control not to hurl these Google devices at a wall!!!! The software continues to show the now bricked devices in the list with no way of deleting them as it can’t find them. So I delete the app reset the devices and install as new. For a technology super power Google’s Home app, along with these useless home assistant devices seem to be laughable at best. So you can basically track where I am any time you like but you can’t find your own devices in my living room?

Don’t normally give a 5 but.... Having installed 5 Google Home units this weekend, most with very little issues and a very intuitive interface (the older one was no where near as good as this), this makes the whole Smart Home concept a simple reality. Sure, it doesn’t do a whole lot yet apart from media and a light or two but the future, in particular the immediate future, is very exciting with this at the fore.

Merging Google WiFi app features done very poorly!!. This WAS a good app, and the Google WiFi app WAS a good app for managing your Google Nest router’s network settings - like DHCP Reservations, and Port Forwarding (something many home users who work with networks or software / product development DO OFTEN use and require). Combining the two apps has been a disaster so far! Editing DHCP Reservations is more painful than pulling teeth on a toothless fish, and editing Port Forwarding is similar! To the point that I’m considering entirely ditching the Google Nest stuff and going to something that actually makes these features more usable and accessible. I’m hoping with updates with app will bring back ease of use, because whoever wrote that part must’ve been under the pump and not had any time to pay attention to usability (like even sorting the Port Forwarding rules, or DHCP Reservations in SOME sort of usable order, and not putting the big + button at the bottom over the top of the list so I can never get to the Delete button for the last item in my DHCP Reservations list. PLEASE fix this horrible and almost unusable interface, otherwise I will definitely be ditching Google network products. Sorry for such a negative review, but I’m actually shocked this was let out SO unfinished, and the Google WiFi app was shut down, so we can’t even continue using that!

Not up to Googles usual standard. As a long time user and subscriber to Google Nest products and services I find the half arsed consolidation:implementation of Nest and Google Home disappointing. Particularly as the products involved are Google’s own and otherwise perform their function well. I ask Google to properly implement all Nest products e.g. Nest Protect Smoke Alarm, Nest Temperature Sensor, etc in Google Home and also lift Google Home app to a similar standard enjoyed in the Nest App (which still has to be kept as Google Home can’t include some of Google’s own Nest products). My recent purchase of new Google Cameras also now frustrates as they can’t be seen with the other Nest cameras on the Nest App. Please fix.

Doesn’t work with Ipad Pro on a dlink network. This google home app runs me through the ntire startup procedure, tells me the device is set up and connected, then immediately displays a “something went wrong error”. The app cannot talk to the device after it is setup on the same network. The google home app does not appear in Local Network settings and I just wasted a lot of dollars for a piece of useless junk that is only capable of one thing: which is “Your Google Assistant has not been set up yet”. Impressive failure. Apple Store really should allow zero stars!

Unable to cast from Chromecast. I was able to cast from chromecast earlier without any problems. However after the upgradation to Google Home, the Chromecast is able to setup and connect to wifi network but having setup final says your Chromecast has been setup but can't be found. Make sure that your phone and chromecast are on the same WiFi network. For more help visit the help centre. Please advise action.

Default TV is faulty. I have 2 Chromecast devices connected (as default TV in the Google Home app) individually to 2 different Google Home Mini speakers, and when I ask either speaker to initiate a stream (HomeSafe View) only the Chromecast Ultra device shows the security camera I ask for,no matter which speaker I use with voice commands. I then split the devices by room, then WiFi router (I have 2) and then started a new ‘Home’ in the Google Home app for a speaker and Chromecast. Only if I turn off the Chromecast Ultra will the other Chromecast works as intended.

HORRIBLE APP. This app is the worst app I have on my phone, I wouldn’t even give it one star, but you have to put something in for the rating, but the annoying part is, I have no choice but to use it. I have spent $1000s on my google setup at home, with the lights, wifi, and 3x google home devices And of course this app is the centre of it all. Your app CONSTANTLY FAILS, it’s constantly goes “something went wrong”. Whenever I get a new Phillips Hue light, I have to completely delete every light and reinstall every single one to the google home system, which as everything else does, keeps failing. On Monday, I had purchased 3x Philips Hue Colour Bulbs, to replace the 3x white bulbs I already had, I had to completely delete the philips hue system and it took me 2 HOURS, to set it all back up again. Because it kept failing and saying “something went wrong”. In the process of this, it deleted my WeMo devices and now will not allow me to reconnect them. One time when I purchased a new google home device, that also take several hours for it finally to connect with the app, and in the process, it deleted all of my google devices. This app is horrid. I HATE using it. I actually cannot wait to the Apple HomePod device comes out, at this rate, I will be changing over. Because it seems more simple. Get your act together Google.

My google home will not connect anymore to my smart WIZ light. Hello to whom it may concern recently I have been having some issues with google home and connecting it to my smart WIZ light globe. After about 2 hours on Sunday afternoon of not successfully re connecting google home to my smart globe I gave up and I also tried deleting the app and reinstalling it and restarting my phone and then logging out of my google account and I have unlinked and tried to link again my WIZ globe and now google will not connect at all she keeps saying sorry I can’t do that or it’s not available right now it worked up until Saturday night and now it just won’t re connect again please help !!!

Hopeless!. I amended a routine, a horrible non-intuitive experience in itself. Now the routine begins differently to the new time I set even though it is displayed correctly. After several attempts to delete it and set-up again, I deleted the routine, but nevertheless it persists even though the routine is no longer visible. I was advised to reboot the device in the app only to find there is no option in the app settings. I rebooted the device by unplugging it for several mins but after plugging it back in the issue persists. I have now unplugged the device permanently - very disappointing!

Would make a better paper weight!!. Changing your Wifi password stuffs it up and you have to go through 2hrs wait for a service provider to stuff about with settings! 😡 I tried deleting the app for Google home and then reinstating it from the app store. I even tried restating my mobile. Honestly Google need to simplify the reactivation should a person change their password. As outlined, to have to go as far as contacting ones service provider just to be able to use the thing is a ridiculous amount of buggarising around just to be able to have it use Wifi. I honestly feel like tossing it into the bin. I have so far reset the device, reset my modem, reinstalled the app. Checked and found UPnP already activated and still nothing. Ive even tried clearing saved Wifi on the app itself and all up so far have spent a good hour of missed income just trying to get this to successfully connect. One would assume they'd had considered that people have a life and need to work to pay for these little luxuries but to through all this jargon on top is simply outrageous!

Very unintuitive. We’ve had a google speaker/mini setup first in our apartment and then in our house for some time. I love using voice controls and interacting with our google minis to stream music, operate peripherals like lights and kettles, however using the google home app is SO FRUSTRATING to troubleshoot, COMPLETELY non intuitive and has far too many possible menus, with some settings requiring me to update my own profile settings, other requiring setup via the device itself and it makes no sense as someone who has been using the app for >4 years. WHY HAS IT NOT BEEN IMPROVED OVER THIS TIME????

Cov19. Everything and now this was the beginning last year February starts people are getting sick left right centre and around the world and every country has had a lot to explain around Australia around the boat’s ferry’s big ship’s all sick people just walk join the community airlines just let every sick person off completely you are in safe hands don’t panic yet people are die ing like India 100 thousands sick and worst is to come blood clots and dizziness short breath tuning nose and can’t sleep tried for not reason and more and more is to come

Additional Cameras. I purchased 3 floodlight cameras to add to my Google home. I have a google doorbell camera. I installed the first floodlight camera but could not get it to connect to the google home app. After several hours of trying and watching Utube videos I decided to create a new Home with different address in the Google Home app. Camera and floodlights connected first attempt. I can use the camera and lights, but have to switch between homes in the app to go from doorbell to floodlight camera. I have two more floodlight cameras to install but do not want to if I have to invent two new homes in my app to use them. VERY DISAPPOINTED. These floodlight camera are more expensive than the competitors. Thinking google should take all their devices back give me a refund and I can buy ring or Eufy

Annoying but ok for other things I guess. The reason I downloaded this app was because I had to get my google homes internet working again and it did not tell any useful information that I actually needed. It was very frustrating and EXTREMELY ANNOYING. So honestly I don’t think I’m gonna keep this app, not very useful (for the way I need it) in wifi connections with devices. I would have given this app 2 and HALF stars but didn’t know how to. In the end this app isn’t good for me or for internet or instructions.

Google wifi. You turned off google wifi and replaced it with google home that has that many glitches that I now have a house full of expensive google devices ie- 3 minis, 3 nests and various chrome casts that literally will not connect to anything. I’ve tried all the help tips and none of them work. I want all my money back google.

Frustrating. I have a Google nest mini, home max, multiple chromecast & nest hub max. I use it in conjunction with LIFX tiles, beam, bulbs, led strips (multiple) and Iv synced our swan security cameras with the Home app too. The swan security video has never really cooperated properly and would only cast to a TV or the nest hub max if you posits till it will finally cast to selected device. The LIFX lights work most of the time but cooks out every now and then. The nest mini constantly has internet connection issues to the point I have to reset the speaker (and it’s a nightmare) and it will work for a few days then repeat the issue no matter where in the home it’s positioned. The home max and nest hub max work reasonably well so far but when playing music to a speaker group I used to be able to control the volume and skip via the app but not anymore. It shows nothing playing even tho there is.. and it will play a few songs then randomly pause music till you request music on the speaker group again. Iv reset all devices and reinstalled/synced with the home app again but still not working properly.

Google Wifi setup issue / missing features. I had trouble picking up an old Google Wifi unit to mesh with a new Nest Wifi network. I only managed to get this setup to work by using the old Google Wifi app to mesh my old unit with another Google Wifi network and cancelling it. By fluke I then found I could pickup my Google Wifi in the Home app after this test and add it to my new Nest wifi network. The setup process should be seamless for adding old Google Wifi units that have been reset and have the latest firmware. Also, I am glad the Google Wifi app is still around (and can be used with Nest Wifi) and hope as much of the functionality from there makes it to this app such as advanced settings and seeing what device is connected to which point.

Their should be a “standard” to technology.. Been a tech person for decades. Worked in it, did it and sold it. As a business partner to tech it’s always nice to see what is coming down the pipe to consumer land. The Lenovo Smart Display 0148 has got to be recalled. It was gifted to our home during lockdown as a way for our families to stay connected via video chat with a difference. It was a novelty at best. This device and OS is of the lowest standard to defective tolerance I have seen in tech. It’s outside of warranty which is a farce, don’t get me started. This device works for about 24 hours in any given week. It blanks out (shuts down) when it wants to. Takes a day to load / start up when I. have to hard reset it. Now it’s asking to be set up via the Application software on my phone, which is hit and miss 6 out of 10 times on failing to recognise the wifi, the device - your choice. Will be shopping this weekend for another smart home display device and will steer clear of anything Google/Lenovo.

Awesome when combined with assistant devices. We got the Google Home hub for Christmas and new it had some interesting possibilities with connected home stuff. 3 weeks in and we have the tv and lights controlled via a wifi switch and this app. We also love the shopping list feature of this app would be worth the free download just for this alone. We share the list between house members and can see in real time as they are checked off. Great app well worth a look especially if you have some of the google hardware like the home hub! Even without these devices check it out the app is like all google stuff very well done.

An app written by nerds for nerds. This is the clunkiest and almost most stupid app I have used. Create a shopping list is a good example. We have a speaker thingie which responds to “OK Google”. “Add potatoes to the shopping list. Done.” Great where is my shopping list? Open Google Home; go to “Settings”???!!!!!! Down the bottom of the page is “Notes and Lists”. Select this. New page with Notes and Lists on it. Select Lists; new page with Shopping List and other lists. Open the shopping list. This is 5 steps to get to my shopping list. Stupid, stupid complexity that is unnecessary. At the top level there is enough room for the shopping list. Why is space used for “adding another device” when the most used items are down 5 levels?

Setting up a chrome cast tv. This app worked fine when I had to set up one google home in my brothers bedroom and when I was setting it up I used my phone but his account and so when I got mine it was so difficult to set up because I want the google homes linked but under different accounts so they can access different personal information. Of course everything got worse when I decided to get a chrome cast tv. I have been trying for 3 days to set up this darn thing but currently all it does is show pictures. It is horrible and confusing. The app has a very bad layout and it needs a search bar.

Appalling. Horrible app to setup wifi. One star is one too many. If you are a Google Home developer I only have one thing to tell you: forget about everything your managers are telling you, and just reinstate the Google Wifi app. It was working, don’t break it! The Home app has so many lags to the point it takes several seconds between taps. Then you tap again, because you don’t know if the first one went through- just to find that it will execute all your taps sequentially with all sorts of unexpected results. It’s infuriating! So many bugs also. It can’t even tell which point the device is connected too. Checkboxes that you check will appear unchecked, but in fact are checked! And so many other bugs. All of that was working perfectly on the Google Wifi app - which I made the mistake of uninstalling, and can’t get it back.

Thanks Telstra. Hey google home mini creators if your reading your partnership with Telstra was a GREAT! Idea I connected to Telstra before I went on a holiday and I found my google home there the app is still downloading but I almost certain that the app will run smoothly. The thing itself is really good as it tells you the instructions as soon as you turn it on. After all I think the google home mini was a huge success so thank you google and keep up the good work! 😀

Good when it works. We have a wifi extender in our house because my room and other rooms don’t have good wifi. I had set up my google home mini, chromecast and tp-link smart plug and connected them all to the same wifi network (through the extender). The plug works amazing with its own app and just thru the google home app. But using it with the google home zis TERRIBLE. Because of the wifi extender I get excellent wifi coverage but it still manages to stuff things up. I can’t change any of my homes setting because it says “some settings are unavailable right now”. And when I try and change them they say “connect to the same wifi network to edit” even if I am. I would give the settings part of the app a zero but the smart plug saves it. Get it together Google!

I love this app. It is soo good and I spent a lot of money for a good reason it helps me with exams and texts. it is absolutely epic and the lights are really cool ,the music is cool , everything about it is fun! I had soo much fun setting it up and it only took an hour it is pretty and white which I love !!!it is soo useful and my on my iPhone X the weather is sometimes wrong but on my google home mini it is always right ! and I think if you are looking for a google home get the mini google home I hope that you have a good experience with your google home, and I think they should get updates, but it is still cool I have a smart tv in my room , and the google home was easy to set up on a flat screen soo I don’t know how it is on smaller tv cause my house only has flatscreens, and we all have iPhone Xs so I don’t know about other phones. I had a pretty good time with mine my brother sister mom and dad have a google home each and a family one. I don’t have to go up and down stairs because now it is in my room!!! And you all should by it!!!!! If you want to ask about stuff you can and also google is nice not like Siri if I ask her about my background she says “well you are Spanish Italian Greek American and born and live in America” if I say what is my age she says “ 18” if I say what is my name she says “ kristina” and it is all true!!!!!!! So hope u get your own google home mini and I do not want to sound like a show off.

Calendar is not supported. Downloaded the app from the App Store and couldn’t connect my calendar. So I did a bit of research and then set up and synced google calendar with my Apple calendar. But for the life of me I cannot get this to work on google home. After some hours researching apparently multiple calendars are now supported (since Nov 2017) I downloaded the app 3 days ago and double checked just now that it is the latest in App Store however there is no calendar in my settings even when following the help advice on google and other sites. Very frustrating not to be able to use my calendar on this device

Great coverage. First mesh system I’ve used and very happy with it. I bought this nest wifi with x2 access points with a new Aussie BB connection and it covers both floors and outside areas. Set up very easy by Google Home and like the ease of using my smartphone to monitor traffic and reserve IP’s for all the devices wired and wifi. I went ahead and linked up all our media services but not tried using google to play anything yet. I recommend it.

Amusing gadget, that's all. We were given this hamburger-sized HAL as a gift from a tech-savvy, tattooed twenty-something, who was anxious for our souls. After a week of shouting 'Hey Google!' at it about once every two hours, when we could think of something to ask, we got a notice from our ISP to say our data use had gone through the roof. The little rascal seems to gobble bits just by sitting there ear-wigging. We pulled the plug, and only reinsert it when our well-meaning, inked friend visits. She tells us her homebound mother depends on the apparatus to tell her the day's weather, but since her mother never goes anywhere, including her own balcony, we don't quite see the need. The Google device is useless for serious research, which is my profession. I need to see, study, examine, review, bookmark, download, save; not merely hear. We don't stream music, or watch movies, or TV, and we sure as eggs ain't gamers. Even our cyber-aware sons and their phone-tethered wives mostly leave their Big Brother Google oracle sulking in a corner unconsulted. So at present, the little grey clamshell in its basket-weave jacket is unused, and as far as we are concerned, virtually useless.

A great app, but. A great app but it needs some tweaking to make it easier to use. The settings are in different place within the app which makes it cumbersome to find exactly what you want. Additional it needs a easy and simple way to delete “ suggested people” when adding a person to Home, often these google suggested people are irrelevant and out of date.

Very Disappointing. App takes a very long time to download even when I have a full Wi-Fi connection and at least 10G of storage available. I recently purchased a Google Home Mini and I am also disappointed with how the app will not connect, and keeps saying “Something Went Wrong”. I tried multiple times reloading the app, connecting and disconnecting, turning on and off but nothing seems to work. The app also wont show my Google Home Mini as a device, nor will it show Chromecast as a device. I’ve given it 2 stars as it is fantastic WHEN IT WORKS! My chrome cast will also not allow any other devices to connect to it, even when i have completely disconnected from it. Very disappointed with how everything is. I have also seen other reviews stating the same problem. Google, It’s over to you.

WiFi ARrrrrr. Because of the fantastic idea of broadband services that still join into old school copper wiring and despite having 3 phone Communication towers nearby we still have internet access issues made worse if something is not paid up the entire system slows down to the point turning the lot off and doing basically anything else. If you’re Apple ID is not paid up or your iCloud account is not paid up or if the internet service provider is not paid up....one thing not paid up and the entire system moves slower than the first dial up Internet modem ever invented . I have paid up my phone bill my Netflix is paid up so you would think my WiFi should be running sweet BUT NO I haven’t paid my $5 monthly fee for the cloud and the 2 have nothing to do with each other you would think but no one small thing not paid and you can’t even watch a movie I’d have more fun using this iPad as a frisbee 1problem and my iPad slows down Netflix stops playing and Crome Cast becomes useless. 3 different things but 1 effects the other so much they all play up and become more trouble than they are worth in total frustration and defeating the entire purpose of convenience.. FIX THIS ISSUE

Doesn’t work. This is the most frustrating, poorly designed app to try and add or remove devices to. It doesn’t let you delete rooms or devices easily and when you finally manage to, it won’t let you add them back. It doesn’t auto pick up any devices you have plugged in. Trying to add them manually and it just keeps going around in circles asking you what you want to add. It was so much better when you could connect everything through your computer but they’ve discontinued that option and the phone app doesn’t do it.

Frustrated caster. I’m so annoyed right now. I’ve got a new wifi modem. My google home has nowhere I can find to add the new wifi settings. It does not recognise my chrome cast whilst trying to add new devices. I want to chill in bed and watch Netflix while my back is injured and in pain. Alas I used to be able to do this. Now I’ve not had it for weeks as the app does not detect chrome cast. I’m sooooooo frustrated!!! Grrrrrrrrr

Wifi problems. The Corecam cameras keep going offline or being disconnected and I am sick of wasting more time trying to set them up. There is something rotten in Denmark going on with the neighbours hacking into our Wifi and it looks like the same thing has happened as before with the other two camera setups. They don’t work. The front step was covered in dog urine again and the neighbors are laughing at us. Until the internet police come and clean up this street from the neighbours nefarious activities, honest people like us will continue to be ripped off and hacked into. My family are walking around in denial and blaming me for the cameras not working. I give up. Another $800 wasted. This has been going on for a long time here. I feel like smashing the whole lot of them.

Linking services hasn’t worked for ages. Google Home can’t seem to resolve an issue with 3rd party devices and software. The wifi lights I have are all Mirabella Genio lights. When I first got them I downloaded the Mirabella app, setup account info, connected the devices etc then went to Google Home to link them. It worked and all was good. Then my google nest mini lost wifi connection and wouldn’t reconnect without dropping out shortly after. I reset the nest mini, deleted and reinstalled Google Home, tried to reinstall everything again but could only connect the Chrome sticks I have. It wouldn’t connect back to the lights or continue its “linked services” connection. When trying to delink again via Google home app it confirms that it has but can’t/won’t load the next section showing the devices details. For the last several months I’ve been using Mirabella Genios app to run the devices which is not how I ever intended to run them. The entire point was to use voice commands and live a life of convenience. instead I’ve just been frustratedAnd disappointed by the Google home app

When it works.... So my wife and I own a google home, I set myself up as the primary yet at every major update it throws me out of the system (won’t recognise me anymore, but all my preferences are there) and it always sets her up as the primary. With this latest update I can’t even get her to do anything anymore, and can’t teach her my voice either. When it works it’s fine, but when it doesn’t it’s incredibly frustrating to fix (when it’s even in the right voice, she seems to decide she’s using an American accent half the time). Terrible program, built by programmers with no idea about user interface. Get a graphic designer to help you, or get an alternative, because this is awful.

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Poorly organized. It’s difficult to navigate, setup and use. There are so many things to look at, but editing or changing anything is not intuitive or simple. very frustrating. I wish there was another option.

Garbage. Can’t believe how poor this thing works

Speaker keeps telling me to log in. My speaker keeps telling me to log in. I’ve logged out, deleted the app, re installed the app, logged out and logged in then all above repeated several times. Stupid voice keeps telling me to log into the app. Just out of the blue one day and now I can’t access anything to do with the speaker. Conveniently there is no help options either during covid. Only get the run around from automated help engines... Angry customer

Google Home and.... Chromecast Ultra are ultra amazing! I don't watch Cable TV anymore!

App settings. VERY hard to set up WIFI!!!!

Groups. Creating groups is absolute hell

Terrible for security camera’s. Unfortunately forced to use this app. Nest app is much more reliable. The new Google camera’s will not work with the nest app. So had to switch everything to Google home. Constant issues with the cameras being offline. Always need to restart the app to connect to the cameras. Junk.

What a pain. Trying to navigate the best at and how it communicates with the Home app is a pain. And why did it ask me to sign in with a random non google email ? Ugh. PITA !!!

Very poor. This app fails to connect any Google device.

Sal S. Absolutely love this device. To heck with Alexa not allowing Canadians to use their items. Good job google.

“Connecting to joining device” issue - nothing works. And Google is just too big to care about bugs affecting current customers.

Google Home. Love it. The assistant is still learning as she often will tell you but she’ll get there. Good job google

Sucks Ballz. Options that Google say are there are not.

used to be good. this app used to be absolutely amazing, but as of recently with all the updates, it simply does not function the way you used to. I’m unable to view my cameras it’s constantly freezing.

Worthless piece of garbage. Bought a google nest hub and all it does is display pictures on the screen. WORST OF ALL IS THAT IT CAN’T EVEN SIMPLY DO THAT? Worst purchase. Horrible app. The user experience is garbage. Don’t get a google nest hub. So frustrating ugh.

Terrible app. I updated my phone to iOS 13 and suddenly cannot connect to my home mini.... please fix immediately!!!!

The new update made it so I can’t even connect to my chromecast.. The new app doesn’t even find my chromecast anymore. What’s the point of redesigning an app if it then starts not working for your main product

Frustrated!!!. Chromecast was working completely fine until I did the last update. Now my phone is connected to wifi but the Chromecast won’t recognize ANY wifi within range...tried deleting the app, signing in and out...NOTHING WORKS

Disconnects from wifi And I can’t reconnect it. I got my best mini about a month ago and it was great but it would disconnect from wifi and I had no clue how to reconnect it. I got it the it to connect couple times but it didn’t work soon after. I’ve tried everything to get the stupid thing to work again but I can only connect to the device by using its “wifi” and then it won’t recognize any other wifi signals to connect to. This is so frustrating because is was really helpful and now it’s useless.

Worst Google Creation. It’s pretty disappointing to expect such an app from Google. Extremely non user friendly. To access the shopping cart each time, we have to go through so many steps. Need to consider a better user interface like all the other google apps.

Can’t activate on iOS13. Google home devices won’t activate with iOS 13.

Youtube on google home. Why do i need to have youtube premium if i want google home to play songs from youtube?

Inconsistent. Constantly having issues connecting to it. Not simple or user friendly. Continually having to u plug and plug back in just to make it work. Wouldn’t recommend

Not connecting. Have to reset passwords due to modem change. Google is not intuitive and is making extra steps

Doesn’t work properly on iOS 15. Cannot add new devices such as WiFi points to an existing Home account, and cannot change the name for that Home account when using the app on iOS 15. Developers need to get ahead of these bugs.

Google home. Impossible to navigate when a new router is installed

New update is horrible, not user friendly or intuitive whatsoever.. Spent an hour trying to do what I was able to do before the update, gave up. Not sure what they were trying accomplish but they missed it by a mile.

Incredibly buggy. Originally very good but over time this app has become a challenge to use. It stops connecting with linked devices and attempts to reconnect simply generates errors that say “try again” although the error continues indefinitely. The app has potential but how about debugging it first!!

Chromecast is awesome. Don't have cable so this is my main form of streaming/watching content. Works great. The app is much better now than it was a year ago. Being able to control volume and what your watching from multiple phones is super convenient. Sometimes it's a bit annoying to try and control playback through an app like Netflix directly but aside from that it's great.

Junk. It’s a pain to set up. Requests all kind of permission to do nothing at the end. Junk.

Works Just Fine. Setup is easy with home control items, but waiting for more compatible devices for Canada.

Doesn’t work with ios13. Update your app, you cannot set-up anything since iOS 13.

Frustrating error message. Will not verify phone number for making mobile calls through google home mini

Doesn’t stay connected for more than a day. I have to factory reset my devices each time I want to use them. I go to my living room and can’t stream anything, have to spend 15 minutes resetting it because it doesn’t successfully pair the first try. Same thing for the bedroom. I don’t understand why this is such a consistent issue but I’m about to just be done with them and find another casting device.

Fantastic. When I was a kid, I had a dream to have a voice assistant like they had in Start Trek. Finally I can have my wiki in my house without having to type on any keyboard. Awesome device and gadget for any age . The link with Spotify works very well . Enjoy and have fun !!!

Linked devices showing offline. What’s going on with this app, linked devices are showing offline even though they are connected to internet and working fine, have reached to support multiple times they are saying leave a feedback on App Store and engineering team might fix in the next release, this is unacceptable from a company like Google, please fix the Home App ASAP

Didn’t like it. I downloaded this app to use chromecast. It worked for sometime but it’s not working anymore. So didn’t like it.

Nothing ever works. Really frustrated with google home products. They constantly have to be reset and the home hub video calls never work bc you you have to use a proprietorial app that no one has. Really disappointing.

No support for Apple Music in Canada. Don’t bother buying a google home mini: despite what they said in December 2020, Canada still doesn’t have Apple Music support, making this device useless since you already have a phone.

Drops Bluetooth connection. I just purchased my google home. It drops connection with my iPhone X frequently. I did some research on internet and I found that it’s a common problem with iPhone for google home. It’s so frustrating. I can’t play songs with my iPhone. And they didn’t add iTunes. If it has iTunes I could play my playlists with that. I hope they will add itunes or do something else for iPhone users.

No more split screen on iPad. No more split screen on iPad, what went wrong ????

Camera extérieur avec fils, sans batteries.. Pourquoi je ne trouves plus de caméra de surveillance avec fils, que je connectes à une prise de courant en tout temps, mais sans batteries, je ne trouves plus nul part. 🙁 De la marque NEST

Google home is great. Really enjoy this app and I’m looking forward to any future features that may be added. I’ve already found many ways do use this with my Google home speaker.

Stop asking me to give google everything. keeps asking me to turn on wifi to setup my chromecast although the wifi is on

At last go me one. Verry nice love the way you can ask a question ex. hey Google how many season in breaking bad... I got also meself Hue lamp nice with the shortcut you can make like macro, also I interfaced with IfTTT , please do it bring up the options. Waitting for other nice improvements and you can trust Google for that.

App gets more confusing to use with every update. Plus chromecast audio devices seem to never be connected to my wifi according to this app, but they are working fine with every other app on my phone.

No hands on. I bought google home and before the day was finished my daughter went out and got one for her own. The next day my neighbour / friends check mine out and they also went out and bought one. Since then I have purchased one more just for the bedroom. I use it for music, news and alarms. I also control my thermostat with it, I'm now looking at switches to control a few lights and the kettle for the morning tea or coffee. I must say also it sounds very good for the size. It's great to just ask it something without lifting a finger.

Unable to setup Google home mini. I’m trying to connect the google home mini through this app. Previously I had set it up, then I moved to a new place, it was connected earlier, it was having some issues so I disconnected and tried to set it up again, however I’m unable to do so now. Please let me know how can I set it up again.

Everything was fine but now it’s broken?. All my devices are showing as offline when they’re not. This started happening after updating. What a mess.

Complete. Garbage

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Lack of Static IP Support Is A Bummer. The app itself is pretty good, but as my review title says, the inability to enter a static IP address, subnet mask, router address, and DNS address via the app and have it applied to your devices like a Chromecast stick is a bummer. To provide some context, I have the DHCP server on my router disabled because it causes a myriad of issues with other devices on my network, meaning I have to go and add an IP address, subnet mask, the router addess, and DNS address to all devices connected to my router. And in looking how to do so for my 1st Gen Chromecast, I learned that people with the DHCP server on their router disabled are more or less out of luck. Given that this same problem does not seem to exist on other streaming devices (e.g. Apple TV 4k allows you to add them from the app and have the settings applied to the device), it seems likely I will be shopping for a new streaming device and getting rid of this app.

Video player is aggravating!!. Okay so my TV remote is broken, the volume down button is jammed, won’t work. I only watch my TV by casting onto it from my phone. So, ofc I could just go to this app and lower the volume of the video from there, right? Haha. WRONG. For some absolutely befuddling reason, it won’t properly lower the volume. It is SO strange, for ex., I’ll lower the volume to 50% it’ll show as 50% on my phone, but the actually sound/volume I’m hearing with my own ears is absolutely crazy, the sound goes up and down, up and down (increasing and decreasing) like wth!!? Why is it doing that?? My mom is sleeping right next door sick as heck cause we’ve all got covid, I have a headache, I can’t lower the volume, and when I attempt to do so with this app, it’s bouncing from being quiet as a whisper to blasting loud for no reason whatsoever. Please fix this!!!!! It’s the most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced with and app!!!

Google killed Nest. Why??. Not only is the home app clunky, unintuitive, and no where near as functional as the Nest app, the latest iteration of the nest cameras released by Google is also nowhere near as functional (and useful) as the older nest cameras that they are replacing. Talk about putting form over function! And let’s be honest, the form (appearance) of the new cameras isn’t any better than the last generation either. Nest was a great company with a great product, and great app to support their products until Google got involved. And as a final insult to long time paying users, the new products are only compatible with the horrible home app, while the old cameras are barely functional in the home app (for example, users can only view prior events, not the actual recordings that we PAY for). Based on their recent product releases, it would seem that Rishi Chandra (VP Google Nest) was brought in to slowly torture and kill a once great product line. He should be fired.

Home app list router offline since May 2022. WiFi router in the home app tiles of listed devices is offline but it’s connected. There is a bug or flaw here for developers to fix. The two access points are connected without issue except with smart smart automated request. Since May or earlier in 2022, this have disrupted linked smart devices for Alexa/Google/ SmartThings/ Philips hue automations including dropping devices (laptops, cellphone as well as with Wifi calling etc,) refrigerator hub is offline on app but it's connected to WiFi and SmartThings; ADT devices is offline but connected, robot machines are offline at times but connected, thermostat panels are offline with warning lights at times but reconnect hours later too often. Everything seems to be online only while the app is loading for a few seconds but the above mentioned remains.

Missing important functionality of Nest. I have been using the Nest app for several Nest products, including many since Google purchased them. We just bought a 2nd generation indoor Nest cam but didn’t realize we cannot use the Nest app with it; it only works with Google Home. This is dumb, since it’s labeled as a Nest product. One big issue for us is that you cannot mute the audio from the cameras in the app, even when your phone is muted. This is a problem because we use it as a crib monitor next to our bed, and if the baby is fussing and we’re monitoring from bed, he’ll hear it and probably fuss more. This will literally cause us to lose sleep, in other words. Also, the camera histories are not as reliable in Google Home. On our doorbell, for example, images of the same event are viewable in the Nest app but Google Home says they’re not retrievable. Navigating to the camera histories is not as intuitive in Google Home and requires more clicks than in Nest. A similar but less significant issue is the format of the app. Nest has images/icons that are more informative and easier to quickly navigate than what is in Google Home. I was initially happy with Nest, but I’ve been increasingly dissatisfied since they were purchased by Google. The changes they’ve implemented suggest their primary goal is to collect data on my family and home, and the user experience has become secondary. I’m angry about being forced to use a lesser app and won’t buy another Nest product.

Worse with every update. It boggles my mind at the decisions made around creating an absolutely unintuitive UI, navigating this new redesign is a nightmare. Things that used to be easily accessible now require digging through multiple menus. And it’s also now forcing useless content and features within the most prime real estate of the app, which buried everything useful about this app in sub menus and screens. So this, plus the terrible speeds I get at times compared to Spectrum that had half the speed, and an actual useful utility of an app, is driving me super close to switching back. Oh but thank you so much google for destroying my lawn and adding a big ugly box in the yard. And when I complained about the yard, they hardly did a thing to resolve it other than planting grass which died. Still have a giant hole and track marks from their equipment. I hate Google. God now I am switching and probably going to remove that box and toss it in the street. Come and get it!

Trash for Nest cameras. Google said hey let’s purchase Nest! The nest app was the greatest but allowed for custom clip creation, not just events saving. They have created a process by which new cameras will NOT add to the nest app and only Google home. They charged $120 for a top tier recording subscription and now a whopping $150. If you rely on the ability to create custom clips, save you money and find another camera company. I have sifted through reviews and found that others have been waiting years, yes years, for Google to fix this and nothing is being done about it. The web application is still in a “public” process, lemans terms is a beta that won’t even let you go back and review the 24/7 continuous recording (web only) at all! The app is the only place and it is ALWAYS glitchy. The only way to create a custom clip is screen record (not good quality). I am to the point of filing a BBB complaint for a company that won’t allow custom recording and charges people a lot of money.

MAJOR PRIVACY ISSUE. I would give this app a 5 star rating but I'm giving it a 2 star rating because the privacy controls are so awful. Everybody can cast to my device on my wifi network. They can see and control everything and the list goes on and on how poor the privacy is with Chromecast. Where the hell are the privacy settings? This is a rather personal and invasive casting system and I have a roommate. It's creepily uncomfortable to have this much access to each other's devices and casting experiences not to mention being able to cast on each other's devices. It would be ok if we allowed it from another account/device on the same WiFi network but not providing an option is another capitalism decision that invades privacy. It's time for this privacy mess to end Google please cut it out and privatize your services. Eventually nobody will use them if privacy isn't equivalent to others working on enhancing encryption.

This is perfect. This is the best product that Google has ever made the assistant is wonderful she is what a assistant should be unlike Siri Siri is not a actual assistant it was very easy to set up once you connect the speaker to your account and you set up your routine and everything else you really do not need to go into the app I do not understand what these people are complaining about in adding users it’s really simple most of these people are complaining for nothing why would google let Apple Music be on its product if you won’t to use Apple Music with a speaker by the HomePod it is really easy to set alarms in delete alarms it’s nice to know about your day when you wake up and get the news it is also nice and wonderful to walk into your home and ask it to do what you want perfect product good job Google

This app was absolutely terrible. A couple years ago I got my Google dock and I decided to connect it to my iPad and in the middle of connecting it I was connecting it to the Internet I connected it to my only Internet which was a private network it wasn’t public and it just wouldn’t connect I have perfect Wi-Fi there is absolutely nothing wrong with it I’ve been trying to connect it to my iPad for months and that’s the only thing it ever says it’s absolutely stupid and then I go look for help and then I see that it says it only works on iPhone 11’s plus which is absolutely stupid because not everybody has an iPhone 11 I only know one person who does and the app should I just expect everybody to have the newest iPhones and androids and then One time it worked but then it stops working it literally just stops it won’t do anything you want any press anything it’s just terrible I give this a one star won’t connect to the Internet works but then it stops working and when I go to the help menu it’s just useless one star review

MAKE ALL “GOOGLE HOME | NEST” SERVICES AVAILABLE ON MAC. I absolutely love and swear by the google home app and all it’s neat devices. I HIGHLY recommend google and nest products to all my family and friends, esp over all other competing brands. All of the google nest brand products are insanely effective and provide superior performance. I live by this brand. I will die by this brand. …But please, please, PLEASE make the all of the “Google Home App” settings, services and content accessible via Apple MAC computers/laptops?!?! —-Whether it be made in the form of only either just a Google Home Website/Sign-In Web Portal of some kind? ..or even just as a Downloadable Web Browser Extension for Google Home (such as a “Google Home: Chrome Extension | Safari Extension”), ....or at THE VERY LEAST, even just by having the already existing “Google Home App” itself officially updated to become fully compatible/available for Apple App Store Download on Apple MAC computers/laptops in its traditional form as the “Google Home App”(now optimized for MAC) ?? …This would make utilizing and operating all “Google Home | Nest” products/services far more easily accessible and universally immersive. I strongly urge Google to please consider.

Great in theory, hard to live with in reality.. We purchased Nest Wi-Fi and a Point for our home network. The router and point are fine. A bit spotty on reliability. In order to use them you need to use this app. At first I thought it was decent. I liked having one app for my smart home/network management and monitoring controls. Made sense to me. The lay out is decent as well. Where it all started to fall apart was in actually using it for managing and monitoring devices. My router always shows as disconnected. It isn’t disconnected. I can click it and it shows as connected and I can control anything on it. I have a TV that runs Google TV. I’m supposed to be able to control settings of the TV and use the in app remote to control it. It worked great for about a month. Now the remote no longer works. I can get it to work if I reset my TV but then the app crashes and when I start it again it says my TV needs to be updated. It also will not let me change settings on the TV. It just gives me an error. Because we are forced to use this app for our router I have to mention that some features are missing that other mobile router apps support. Such as on router VPN setup. I wanted to like it, but mostly I hate it. If they can fix these stupid problems it would be great. The layout and potential is awesome. Hope Google can focus more on this now that they seem to be cutting fat as a company.

Utter Garbage. In what I assume was an attempt to make this app user friendly, they’ve stripped it of any intuitive options or any semblance of deep-dive control. Every time I open this app I have to re-learn its bass-ackward logic of where the simple options are located. On top of that, connecting to smart devices is way way way more complicated than it should be. There should be easy troubleshooting and fully encompassing steps to get things connected but everything sort of hangs on a razors edge. Heaven forbid there’s a modification to the network - half the devices get knocked out and take hours to reconnect because of the illogical interface and maddeningly inconsistent connections. I am giving this app more than one star, though, because after you’re done pulling your hair out and the system is up and running it’s actually pretty nice. It really needs to give the user more intuitive control things besides the basic off and on functions though.

Great for selling your privacy. This is a great app for selling your privacy. At no cost to you except for the cost of buying a Chromecast, Google is happy to let you setup and use that Chromecast for the minor inconvenience of telling it exactly where you are at all times. We’ll tell you we need your exact location to make it *easier* for you to setup your Chromecast. (Because that’s how wifi works, right? It need a GPS signal and Bluetooth?). You’ll glance around for another option on the app then mindlessly click okay when you realize Google isn’t really asking you your permission. They’re telling you if you want to use the product you just bought from them that has nothing to do with location or where you are, you’ll need to give them your location. Oh also if you could logon so we could associate your specific viewing taste with all the other data we have on you including your apps, contacts, calendars, emails, and search history, that would be nifty too!

Old Nest Cams Won’t Transfer. ? If you have the original nest cameras or doorbells, you can’t transfer the old cameras to this app from the original Nest app. What? Why wouldn’t you give people the ability to have all devices in one place. I keep hearing that they are “working on this issue” but it’s been several months and I have to toggle between two apps to see my cameras…very not user friendly When someone spends several hundred dollars on a camera variation that one can buy for $99 on other platforms they expect the absolute best, not poorly thought out and hurried apps…terrible job google, you should have just kept the old nest app and changed its logo or something. Very disappointed. Also, the original used nest cameras are now selling for more expensive than the new google cameras online…meaning people want the old product because it syncs in one place easier, what a FAIL that your new cameras are cheaper than old used ones…that should tell you everything.

Worst Functionality and UX. This is the most popular designs user experience and software architecture I have ever seen. The most basic functions are buried and things that should be simple or convoluted. Things that are easy on the Alexa app like grouping lights and then sharing lights between groups are nearly impossible on Google without creating stacks of ‘routines’. They haven’t figured out the concept of lighting groups and make managing the devices between homes or rooms needlessly burdensome. To create a routine turning on six lights in my living room requires no less than 76 button taps (yes I did the math). Then, the routine is not actually a group but just a shortcut so you actually have to make another word queue and do all of that again to make them turn off with a word as well. We are over 150 clicks on your smart phone navigating three screens, times six lights, times two commands (on off) for a total of 36 page navigations required. All of this to make a set of lights ready for simple on and off control.

It used to work…. Until bought by gOOgle. Now the thermostat schedule does whatever routine it desires. Or it is controlled by ERCOT as many people think. We have night heat set to 68, yet wake to 65 every morning. During the summer, evenings are set to 70, yet at 4:00am it’s 78. For me, it’s hard to sleep that warm. After the thermostat, we got the doorbell. It used to work. Now, not so much. No more notifications that someone is at the door, or they rang the bell. We still get a standard ring, from the chimes. I am in the room next to the door, hear someone walk up, the software takes 2 minutes to connect to the camera. At that point, the person has rang the bell a second time, and left. I used to work as system Quality Tech, I would never allowed this firmware to ship. My wife wants to add a couple cameras to our home system. But given the poor performance of the Nest doorbell, I am thinking we need to cut our losses and switch the entire system. Maybe separate smart thermostat and camera/doorbell systems.

Disappointing.. In view of recent updates and the incorporation of new content, it is regrettable to observe a discernible deterioration in the app's performance. I have personally encountered a recurring pattern of disconnections, with subsequent reconnection attempts proving persistently futile. This unfortunate trend appears to have arisen subsequent to the implementation of recent updates. Moreover, the app's overall accessibility and functionality have been compromised, adding to the decline in my user experience. When attempting to launch the app, a significant and inconvenient delay is encountered before I can effect any modifications to my devices. This delay, unfortunately, is not always rewarded with a successful connection, as there are instances where the app fails to establish a connection even after enduring the protracted wait. Consequently, these persistent connectivity issues have culminated in my inability to seamlessly access video content triggered by alerts. It is imperative that these concerns be promptly addressed to restore the app's efficacy and enhance user satisfaction.

Ruined the Nest Cameras. We have loved our nest cameras for so long and had invested in many BUT the new camera (2nd generation) is not compatible with the nest app. You are instead forced to use this app. This app is far inferior to the nest app and sadly we will be shopping for a new brand of cameras despite being huge nest fans for so long. Some of the issues include not being able to view all your cameras quickly on a single screen together, you have to click through and view each camera one by one. Also, you can only currently view the 24-7 footage of the second generation cameras so we have to use two apps to get what we need accomplished. Also, scrolling through the full video feed in Google Home on the cameras is nearly impossible. When attempting to view the full feed it glitches terribly, you constantly get the blue loading circle or “footage is not yet available”. None of this was an issue with the nest app, bring back the better version.

Very Disappointed with this Google mini I just got for my early birthday present last month.. My boyfriend set up Google Mini but not all the way I downloaded the Google home mini app and then I found out I had to download the Google assistant app and then I had to download the Google Drive app. so I had to have 3 apps on my phone to work the Google mini completely and then it was working fine until I want to make personal phone calls and I said hey Google call this person and it said cannot find contact in phone and I called Google and I was on the phone with them for 3 hours. I reset the Google me unplugged it and still didn’t work. so I am returning them. I think Echo Dot is a lot better then Google home mini. At least my boyfriend gets his money back. Don’t buy Google mini unless you want three apps on your phone. Also it came with no instructions on how to set it up. you had to download google home app plus goal assistant plus Google Drive very disappointed it had 2 of them and they were on sale at the time.

Very buggy and unreliable. Not sure if it’s a problem with the app or the overall Google service, but we have constant problems with devices regularly disconnecting, even ones in the same room as the router. When we trigger voice commands sometimes they take forever to execute. Like telling the lights to shut off, the device acknowledging it receives your command, and then the lights taking two minutes to turn off. Automation routines also regularly failed to complete. The activity log in the app log is extremely buggy as well, it will regularly fail to update. Reinstalling the app fixes it for a day or two but then stops again making it useless unless you want to reinstall the app every day. Google Home is maybe alright for stringing together a series of ragtag devices, but if you want snappy and reliable home automation I’d look elsewhere. Definitely don’t rely on this service to wake you up on time!

Missing key features. I really enjoy the redesign. I’ve never used Google Home before but I know there was a redesign to integrate the Nest products. I love the ability to create rooms and group the items together for those rooms. But, one of the key features in my opinion is missing from the Nest thermostat. The ability to see outside temperature. I use that information to decide what I am going to set my thermostat to. I know if it’s 68° outside that I can change my thermostat from 72° to 68° and not feel as if I’m going to be charged a heck of a lot of money from the power company. I also utilize Amazon’s Echo Dot’s throughout my home. I’m fearful that they will loose the ability to control Nest devices after August. I contacted Nest directly and they were very careful to say “we do not foresee that being an issue”. Which indicates to me that they chose their words carefully regarding that topic.

Disappointing, Unstable, Barely Functional. Often shows devices and wifi off-line when they're not while simultaneously another part of the App declares your WIFI is "blazing fast." Thermostat shows zero monthly History (Usage) on the Home App despite the Nest thermostat working perfectly. Home App displays different results and different device status on different ipads and iphones within the same home for the same devices. Uninstalling the app (and thermostat) and then reinstalling had no effect. Google Support (phone, chat) is clueless beyond reading their script to you. Hard to believe this was developed (and released!) by Google. (FOR AN EXAMPLE OF A WONDERFUL THERMOSTAT APP, CHECK OUT THE TRANE APP.) NOTE( ADDED AFTER REVIEW): We got a "boilerplate" totally unresponsive reply here on this review ("try restarting your thermostat,reach out to us..."). Interestingly, one Google Support (phone) rep indicated "this is a"known problem," while a second rep said the problem is "solved." It is not (for any skeptics: try a Google Search).

Does not connect well to Nest products.. Nest disconnected from Wi-Fi and the application was the only way to set up the Wi-Fi connection. The app could not reconnect to the nest device. I am updating my review. I was on the phone and chatted with a Google technician on Friday night and Saturday morning. They were very helpful and I did eventually get the issue resolved. Ultimately I had to reset the application. Google support was good. I wish though that there was another way to set up Wi-Fi access other than through the setup protocol. This made it so that I had to remove my device through the Home app and try many times to re-set it up. There was much waisted time. It is my hope that the app will be updated to enable an alternative way to correct Wi-Fi setup errors. I am upgrading from 1 to 3 stars. If Google makes the software correction, then I can upgrade to 5 stars

Bring back the shopping list!. Please please please re-integrate the shopping list feature into the Home app! Aside from playing music, adding items to the shopping list—primarily groceries as we run out of them—is our primary use for our Google Home. While it was a bit buried in the settings, being able to manage our shopping list from our central home app really removed stress from our daily routines. The list was always a little tricky to use and could definitely still use some UX love, but attempting to use it in the Shopping app is awful. I have to re-selected the shopping list every time I navigate to a browser to reference the recipes informing my list. It’s way too easy to delete an item when I’m trying to move it. The experience is so bad I’ve found myself using it less. Planning our grocery runs is a definitely a core home activity. Please bring it back to the Home app!

Terrible lagging interface that only works 50% of the time. Google Nest, the tech gift that keeps on giving… headaches. The Nest app was like that trusty old butler, Jeeves, always there, always reliable. But now? They’ve decided Jeeves needs a co-butler, the Google Home app – basically a digital sloth that can’t find its way out of a paper bag. I’m forced to add my shiny new doorbell to this tortoise of an app. It’s like trying to stream a live concert on a dial-up connection. “Laggy” is a kind term; this app moves with all the haste of a glacier. And get this – my security setup is now a tale of two cities. Half my cameras are living it up in the Nest app, while the others are held hostage by the Google Home app, which has the reliability of a chocolate teapot. It’s a real party, except it’s BYOB – Bring Your Own Bandwidth. If inconsistent user experience was an art, Google Home would be the Mona Lisa. So here’s my two cents: if you’re jumping into the Google smart home bandwagon, be prepared for a split household – where the left hand doesn’t know what the right app is doing.

We’re loving it!. My husband and I have had our Chrome cast for a hot minute, and we absolutely love the fact since we don’t have a “smart” tv that now it feels as if we do have a “smart “tv with this awesome little device that is hooked up to our tv now.... Its extremely easy to use, especially if you do have kids, which we do, have a son who just moved out, but when he comes and visits us we can have FAMILY movie night and everyone can pick something on whatever app you have and play it from on of our Cell Phone’s!! I’m just so happy that we invested in the Chromecast, because eventually we may just get rid of Direct, all together!! The Chromecast, is kinda like our 2nd kid that we never had, but now it’s apart of our family forever and brings us joy and happiness in everyone’s life, thus far!! Thanks!!!

Honestly... a little disappointed. I have been a Google fan boy for as long as I can remember. I used it over Yahoo back when it was a thing, I got into the Gmail BETA through invitation, and so on. Google was definitely my choice with smart home tech, but now I finally have a grievance. The app continues to forget my routines. The devices apparently don’t recognize bulbs or routines, nor do they refer me by name anymore. Good morning is supposed to give me the time, weather, commuting information, and stuff on my calendar... but it just says hi here’s the time. Options disappear sometimes, requiring a refresh or app reload. I’m sorry, but continuously factory resetting my devices, and re-configuring things in the app over and over is not an excusable fix... that doesn’t fly in my work as a programmer, it shouldn’t fly here. You can have more stars when you implement a real solution, not the new version of “have you tried turning it off and on again”

Reliable, easy and works as advertised!. I have a flat screen TV but it isn’t a “smart” TV. The Google Home app allows me to select from my phone what I want to stream from our WiFi using our Chromecast device plugged into the TV. While a video is streaming I can use other apps on my iPhone. I have already recommended it to other people, we added my daughter’s phone using the Google Home app in about 10 seconds so she can use the Chromecast whenever she wants. A few days after writing the above review I was unable to connect to my WiFi either Chromecast, I called customer service and they said that they were already working on the problem and two days later the problem is fixed!!! I can’t ask more from a product all the way around!

Simple is as simple is not. to get & install the google home app with very simple steps from any tech debice. once done , all things google should be able to be changed or updated without having some major issues, having to resesrch evrrything by sevrsl sites, or videos. then, that only gives you part of the issue,lesving you staring off in winderment as , what? thats not what I asked. ohhh wait, its not simple is it, there sre more steos, if U can get back to the page. ohh , & if U have to search U might be lucky enough to get the 3 EASY steps page. this page is totaly FREE, no charge to your card! WRONG! immediately notified by my bank, fraud acivity @ the same time from some alpha type co. whom I looked up! its connected to thid FREE site page, for only 3 steps! so, Should be very simple,right? NO, not simple. msny help sites & pages contradict each other, as well as double tslk, Many on GOOGLE SEARCH. rant ended

Awful painful regret. speakers, zones, chrome casts sometimes just disappear from the app suddenly and no amount of resetting or troubleshooting ensures that you won’t have to go through the tooth pulling process of manually hard resetting each disconnected (yet bafflingly still on and responding) device, then suffer through the torturous process of connecting the device as google begs you in what feels like 47 screens to accept pages and pages of disclosures and google assistant tricks and tips and hints which you have to skip through violently before it allows you the opportunity to have your devices working for a few sessions before they disconnect from the app again and you start the mind numbing process all over again and you wish to god you never spent hundreds of dollars to have a home wide google smart speaker system that you at this point would rather toss all into a fire and just get some apple home pods because you know those at least will work ……….

USELESS JUNK. I’ve been using the google home app for years, connecting devices was pretty easy, this version is the worst garbage i’ve had to deal with, went to hook up a ceiling fan that was already using google home, got a new router, so network was new, went to google home to add it, thought its going to be 2 clicks and done, nope, now google home only shows the app the fan is connected to, not the fan itself, when I hit pair it says the fan app is connected but doesn’t show the fan not even where the app is, there’s no way to check ever it is even though it says it is linked, deleted and reinstalled the room over and over, hit add over and over, hit install with google tried every possible link, reset fan again and again into pairing mode, nothing, first time I installed the fan was the old version which searched devices seamlessly and added them, great job destroying what was an intuitive way to use app and replacing it with no frills cr*p

Tried it a bit more today. HOPEFUL. Update 4/24 I have been testing the ap MANY NEGATIVE REVIEWS r generated from Google Nest displays have become super unusable in recent months. I live out my hardware but find another brand. This so reminds of The IBM PC AND THE SATURN AUTOMOBILE There is potential here BUT! Update 3/7/23 It works a lot better. The Nest hardware was more expensive and made well. Not everyone is wealthy. That is easy to forget. Some realize the complexity. Nest would talk to you. Years ago I told them of a bluetooth problem. Fixed it next day and advised me. I have lots of this stuff and it was my interest and my profession. The isolation of these systems and how we are treated. It is the best way to let you know the problems. Cameras go in and out not in the Nest app but on our Google display hubs. Worse in last two weeks. Tons of bandwidth fiber direct PLEASE! It is a nice system please fix it. I and others ‘EARLY ADOPTERS dating to ‘70’s’. Understand its complexity and in UTTER AMAZEMENT!!

Optional functional errors. Most of my home is a smart home. But what drives me absolutely insane is when a light disconnects from the system or has an error, I cannot go into the app and just remove that bulb. I need to completely dismantle and setup the entire home again or I need to listen to “I’m sorry, but Bedroom Globe 1 isn’t available right now.” Until I setup the entire home again. Why can’t I have the option to toggle off bulb errors like “Don’t give this error again.” Or “Remind me this is a problem in a week.” Or “Mute this error for an hour or day or month.” Or just give me the option to selectively delete a failed bulb in-app. Additionally the new app interface is hot garbage. Beyond that when power is lost due to severe weather as it recently was in my area, the whole home needs to be setup from scratch again as well. About the only good, convenient thing about the app is the fact that integration is quick and easy with multiple brands of smart devices.

Nest Mini Failure. Besides the almost incomprehensible app not able to suggest what the problem is (written by geeks I am sure), I chatted with a Google rep a few weeks ago. S/he/it referred the problem to a supervisor who concluded it’s part of a more common complaint with the Nest mini. They promised to get back to me. I have waited until now with no response. The support for the mini is clearly weak and unimportant to Google. I like that because this gives Apple a chance to make Siri more capable to carry on a conversation. Also, I wouldn’t doubt a new version of the mini is coming soon and if so there better be an exchange program. I would be ok trading it in plus $20 to acquire a new version. Otherwise I will hopefully see improvements in the Apple ecosystem and go that direction.

Nest doorbell. When it works its great. I have owned the nest doorbell (battery) since day one. It is wired to home my va is 16. I noticed when someone would ring doorbell, I open the app and the doorbell would says its running off of battery power. Don’t know if it was a glitch or something else but I have never had to charge it via usb. Most of the time it will spot someone before they ring the bell since the latest update. Its been late and late in notifications about the doorbell sometimes a minute after the bell has rung. Today someone accidentally ran into my garage. The camera did not pick up anything of this event as far as sound. Which is strange. Thankfully the person came to me and I have that on video from the nest device incase I need it. I find it strange that a device this late past development is still having bugs to iron out. The app itself is a convoluted mess. Please stream line.

Good until they decide you need a new app. Why in the world does Google find it necessary to constantly force obsolescence onto apps that were working just fine? My Nest system and my Google WiFi have worked fine for years. Suddenly I get warnings that I won’t be able to use Google WiFi anymore unless I migrate to a new app. No explanation is given as to why they’re going to torpedo their own app. They just decide they’re going to change the paradigm one day (I guess they got bored with how well everything’s been working thus far) and then all of their users have to adjust to an arbitrary new way of doing things that offers little to no practical benefit. So many companies seem to operate like this. Every couple of years they just shuffle all their products around and call it something new. I guess it helps them sell new units? That’s a good reason to inconvenience all of your existing users—the possibility of maybe getting a few more users. Then you can inconvenience them in a couple years too.

It’s like Google isn’t even trying to compete. With two Google Home Minis, Google Wi-Fi, a Google chromecast, Vizio chromecast TV, and two Vizio chromecast sound bars, you would think I’d be all in on the Google Home ecosystem. But it’s a disaster. 1. Chromecasting is hit-or-miss. Often times I have to disconnect and reconnect from my speakers more than once to get them to actually play. 2. Saying ‘ok Google play on the living room speaker” Always plays it on the living room TV even though I’ve renamed the living room TV to ‘big TV’ to remove any possible confusion and my living room speaker (Vizio sound bar) is named ‘living room speaker’. I want to listen to music, not have a bright 75” screen on just to show album art from Google Play. 3. If I chromecast music from Google Play Music on my iPhone (because the Google Home Mini is too stupid to do it, see #2 above), and then I ask the Google Home Mini to stop the music playing on the living room speaker, the mini tells me nothing is playing on the living room speaker. 4. Even though Siri and Alexa recognize commands like ‘turn off the downstairs lights’, Google Home Mini tells me “I’m sorry I don’t know how to do that” so I have to tell it room by room which lights to turn off. Google Home is by far the dumbest of the three home voice assistants for media and home automation and this app is the weakest of the bunch.

So far very confusing setup. I have at my house, and one at my dads house. Almost impossible to set up in one day. The problem is it is going through growing pains. I sent invite to myself from his phone but it didn’t go through. So now I found using a old iPad I could log into his Home account and now invite myself as if I were him and now I am making some progress. And what is with the Nest cameras only allowing one camera before it has to see the last Co area to log on. Confusing I know, one camera was not working and it would not let the last camera to come on line. It took most of the day to figure out it was a bad camera on this app. Poor design on the log on. They could have easily had each camera or device log in on its own rather than rely on the last device logged in.

Routine needs improvement. I like the app overall. It controls all my home devices in one app. The routine feature comes short in the app though. It has a lot of unnecessary restrictions. For example, why do I always have to come up with a voice command as part of the routine, even though my routine is supposed to run automatically without voice command? I also wish that I can setup routines in paused state for some occasional routines so that I can activate them whenever needed. For example, I want to setup auto on/off lights only when I go on vacation. Or when my kid doesn’t have to go to school then I can turn off the alarm just for that day. Overall, it’s a great app but it would’ve been even better if they add some basic functionality in the Routine feature.

App problems managing Nest Mesh Wifi. We used to have Google onHub for wifi and that app worked great so we upgraded to a mesh network but Google Home App is fraught with problems. Summary It has many great features but they don’t work effectively. We have the Google Home app managing our Google Nest mesh Wi-Fi network. We have had several problems with the app effectively managing the Wi-Fi. Setup Interface This is the one area that was well crafted. The user experience and ease of setup was great. All our mesh network was connected within less than 15 min. Managing WIFI We created a family group which you can pause for our children and set schedules. It won’t unpause their group even though it says it is not paused. It constantly kicks users off of the wifi and then locks you out even though you have the correct password you can’t reconnect. I’ve even had the app open copied the password from the app and pasted it and still said wrong password. Troubleshooting The FAQs and help don’t provide the answers we need. We even had a friend who manages wifi networks for a living try and help us. We expected more from Google. Sorry Google but we are just being honest. What’s next If we can’t get this fixed we will be returning the Nest Wifi and going with a different mesh network. We would be happy to talk to someone who can remedy this issue and help prevent these problems for other families.

Google Home and its Hub is very beneficial!. Pros: Improved Home app certainly helps a lot! Especially for a Deaf person like myself. I bought the Google Home Hub due to its display to show information I need when I ask, freeing me from looking at the phone’s screen frequently. I use my phone to speak the commands to Google Home Hub, and it responds well from commands or answering my questions with information on display, certainly a wonderful feature! Cons: sometimes, when I ask a question, it doesn’t show the information, would end up speaking the information, so I had to modify the questions to make the Hub show the information, if it still fails, I use Google Assistant on my phone as an alternative. It can be frustrating sometimes! Otherwise, it’s huge step for Google to make their products as much as friendly for everyone. Keep it up Google! 👏👏

Great for Google products but camera viewing is buggy. So if you have Google Home products this is essentially the only app you can download to interact with those products. The app overall is pretty good and I feel like Google have done a good job over time simplifying the layout and making this apps usability better. But there is still some issues. The most buggy and unreliable part of this app is the when I try to view the cameras I have. Sometimes I will tap the cameras icon and the app will just force quit completely. When I am able to view my cameras if I sit there for more than five minutes the camera feed will just freeze and I half to reload it. Other than these problems I also find that when I am trying to do other things within the app it can be finicky when I am scrolling.

LOG IN with your Google home app😡🤬🥵. Well coincidence or maybe not-since you’ve been tweaking the bug fixes. I now have bugs. I didn’t have any problem until a week ago with my Google dot. One upstairs & one downstairs. The one downstairs keeps telling me that I need to LOG IN with my Google Home app. The upstairs one still works fine, so it’s not the Wi-Fi. YES- I have unplugged the downstairs one for a day, replug it back in still the same. I unloaded the downstairs dot from the Google app, deleted app from phone, then reloaded the Google Home app and resynced the dot, and it’s still saying LOG IN with your google home app. It’s driving me crazy. I just went online to see if I could do anything else to resolve the problem and notice there’s thousands of people with reviews saying the same thing that this has happened in the last week to three days. Let’s get it together google! So much is stressing us out in this world, don’t make our safe home space just as stressful. Please correct this matter.

Re: home. Don’t like the constant spying and at times silly answers to questions that are so unrelated to each other. Sometimes my alarms don’t remind me my plans as planned although there may be two notifications for reminders. For example, I can ask about pasta and instead it tells me about an event that occurred in 1921. So we’d be so confused because the items are so unrelated. I’d ask again but it would again tell something very unrelated as though it was avoiding my question. And sometimes the same question it answered yesterday, today it may be different. Like what’s the weather, one day it could tell me something totally different about the history of something instead of it’s 30* 40% rain like it told yesterday or hours before. I have 2 of them and they can both answer differently. Initially it was more fun.

Very poor, no signs that it will improve. Google Home is very buggy, I’m disappointed that my Nest cameras, which seem to be higher priced than competitors are not living up. Lately, every time I try to view saved recordings the app consistently crashes about a third of the way in. The app design is very poor and it takes way too many clicks to get to things, for example saved faces. Speaking of which, faces only get saved about half the time, often they log a message but can’t be found. The only recommendation I’ve received from support is to reboot the camera, which requires going up a ladder. Really Google, you can’t design a reboot function in the app??? I work in IT and work professional grade IP cameras and that’s the norm. Oh, and a cameras reboot changed nothing. To not allow for reboots in-app is just many in a long list of reasons why I’m really disappointed in myself for going down the Google Home path. They don’t really care though, because once you are invested, you unlikely to switch and they know it.

Too crowded, too many different shapes in one hole. I'm forced to use this app for Google Wifi. It is terrible. It offers not even the bare minimum control and functionality for a home network, and this Home app offers EVEN LESS functionality than the earlier, dedicated Google Wifi app. The app also crams my Google Nest Mini in there, as well as a slew of smart switches and lights, all of which are accessed in a different context than I'm trying to check on a device's WiFi usage. Too many different shapes - different interfaces, reasons to use the app - crammed into one place. As it is here, I just installed the app, and it claims my network is offline. Um, well... Hate to tell ya, but if you're reading this, clearly it is not. Anot example of tech apps presenting failures that they are sure is your (user's) fault, with no decency to let the user say "uh no, you want to check again or give me some details why you think that?". Nah, it's just convinced my network is offline.

You should pay us for the data you thieve. I can use my stuff without giving my data away for free. Consider this my cease and desist. Google nor your tangent companies may keep my data info etc ever and delete what you have and retrieve all you have given of mine or could be mine. For the info you cannot get back I have a fee rate of 100$ per word of data you cannot get back. I’ll let your teams figure a number and if you choose not to figure with the resources and banks of data estimation and profits we all know you have to acquire a number then it will default to 13trillion dollars to be paid off by google for my lifetime and anyone associated with me via 10k a month till paid off. And I am a giver sooo no interest if the assumed financial value is the default now if y’all do the math and want a payment plan then y’all will have an interest that changes every month with what ever the housing loan % is. Get ethical Google or be treated as you clearly treat others.

Absolutely Terrible. *Update: I just upgraded my Google WiFi points to Nest WiFi points, and the experience was unbelievably awful. It took me over two hours to get two brand new points connected by trying the craziest combos of network resets, power cycles, app force closes, manually changing WiFi networks, etc, to get them to work. Their phone support was experiencing difficulties during regular business hours, so I had to figure it out myself. The Nest experience was always so easy and seamless. This Google Home experience is the exact opposite, and I can’t recommend it to my non-techy family/friends/co-workers. And that’s a shame, because the products are great once they’re set up. *Original Post: I purchased a Nest Home Hub to replace my old Echo Show. I placed it in my kitchen, where I have two other Google Home speakers/devices. After googling/testing multiple solutions, I cannot figure out how to get all three speakers to play music via a voice command. I’ve tried to rename devices, groups, and rooms. In the end, the Hub chooses to play on “Kitchen Left.” I can add the other speakers through the hub, but not the app. When I go to the media tab in the app, while playing music on all speakers, it crashes. At this point, I’m thinking about ditching all of my Google Home devices (except Nest cams) and go all with Echos. It pains me to say this, because I’m a huge Google fan. This app and their devices are just not where they need to be unfortunately.

Terrible for working with Nest Thermostats. Hello! It got two stars because it successfully controls the new Nest thermostat that works ONLY with this app. The old nest app was elegant and effective. This is the opposite. The worst part of the app is when you click on “thermostat”, it pulls up an outdated view of the thermostat’s status: the prior temp setting, and an old measured temperature. USERS WHO ARE STUCK WITH THIS APP: Here’s the workaround - close the thermostat display, and open it again. This seems to query the device anew, and produce an accurate display. It’s like Don DeLillo wrote about toasting with an old toaster: “you have to push the thing down twice.” It took me months to figure this out, along with spending months mentally mapping and exploring the UX to memorize the ways through this labyrinth to do things like change automatic settings, set a hold, or run the fan. I use this to minimize our energy consumption when I’m the only one in the house. Being able to do this from my phone has saved money, gas, and electricity, and therefore helped reduce the extent of climate change. Can you imagine if Google were to make this app work well enough for EVERYONE to use it, how much of an impact that would have on getting us to a livable future? Let’s go Google, I heard you have a lot of talent and a lot money. Can you fix the Nest brand that you bought, and broke?

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 12+ years and older
Current Version 3.11.104
Play Store com.google.Chromecast
Compatibility iOS 15.0 or later

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The application Google Home was published in the category Lifestyle on 27 August 2013, Tuesday and was developed by Google LLC [Developer ID: 281956209]. This program file size is 365.69 MB. This app has been rated by 889,437 users and has a rating of 4.5 out of 5. Google Home - Lifestyle app posted on 04 January 2024, Thursday current version is 3.11.104 and works well on iOS 15.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.google.Chromecast. Languages supported by the app:

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