Apps and account
Get started with the Google Home app
Add or remove devices
- Set up smart devices in the Google Home or Nest app
- Connect third-party smart home devices in the Google Home app
- Meet the Google Home app
- Requirements for Google Nest and Chromecast devices
- Set up Matter-enabled devices
- Setup instructions for specific brands
- Use smart lights with Google Nest or Home devices
- Link your TV to your Google Nest or Home speaker or display
- Remove a product from your account
- Fix a problem with adding or removing devices
Share and manage your home
- Share a home and devices in the Google Home app
- Manage people and permissions in the Google Home app
- Voice Match and media on shared Google Nest or Home devices
- Turn on voice recognition with Voice Match
- Let your child use Google Assistant on your devices
- Control your privacy on your shared devices with Guest Mode
- Guests and your Google connected home devices
- Organise your homes and devices in the Google Home app
Control your home
- Control smart home devices added to the Google Home app
- Control smart home devices by voice
- Google Home for web and Nest web app
- Google Home on Wear OS
- Control smart devices with your Android phone or tablet
- Control smart home devices with the Favourites widget
- Home app Activity
- Control Google Nest products with Amazon Alexa
- Use features available for specific devices
Automate your home and devices
Change your personal settings
- Change your Voice Match settings
- Allow personal results on your Assistant-enabled devices
- Change your Google Assistant settings
- Change your media services settings
- Change your home and work locations in the Google Home app
- Manage your Google Home app notifications
- Change Nest notification settings
- Activity controls and Google Nest
- Use a screen reader with the Google Home app
- Link a Google Workspace account to the Google Home app
Change home and device settings
- Update Nest products and apps
- Update the Google Home app
- Change Google home address
- Create and manage speaker groups in the Google Home app
- Temporarily turn off Google Assistant
- Restrict content on your Google Nest speakers and displays
- Change the settings for Home and Away routines
- Change your device name
- How do I connect my Nest or Home devices to a new Wi-Fi network?
Fix a problem
Manage Nest app accounts, devices and settings
- FAQs about accounts for the Nest app
- Create a new account to use the Nest app
- Change your Nest app account settings
- Add and control devices in the Nest app
- Home/Away Assist
- Update Nest products and apps
- Troubleshoot Nest app sign-in issues
- Transfer devices to the Google Home app
- Support for Works with Nest has ended