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The new Google Home, built around you
Fall 2025
Google Home Update
Welcome to a new era of Google Home, built around your needs: more helpful, more personalized, and easier to interact with than ever before. Meet the next-gen voice assistant to help you do more across your home. The redesigned Home app is faster and more streamlined.
And supercharge your smart home with AI powered camera features and home automations with Gemini.1,2,3
A new kind of voice help
What if your voice assistant could do more than answer basic questions and execute simple commands? With Gemini for Home, now it can. Tackle your to-dos, run your home, and even brainstorm your next big idea, all in easy, conversational language.
Next-gen voice assistant
Hands-free help like you’ve never heard
Gemini for Home’s voice assistant is coming to compatible speakers and displays1,5. Effortlessly manage your schedule, get instant hands-free help for anything from recipes to gift ideas, and command a smarter home by making multiple actions happen with a single ask.
A Google Home app that’s built around you
Managing your smart home should feel as easy as living in it. The redesigned Google Home app makes that possible—faster, smarter, and so much easier to find what you need.
New simplified layout
Delightfully intuitive. And beautiful, too.
A new 3-tab design makes the Google Home app more intuitive. The Home tab gives you one place to view and customize your favorite devices. An updated Activity tab gives you AI summaries of recent activity across your cameras, and the new Automations tab shows your upcoming automations, along with an easier-to-use builder.3,7
Visual automation editor
Amazing automations. Even more customizable.
Now anyone using the Google Home app can make new types of automations with improved creation and management tools and a better visual editor. Build automations that haven’t been possible before: for one-time events, specific dates and times, and more.3
Device controls
Control your smart home from a single app
The Home app now features deeper controls for your Google Nest products and third-party Matter devices so you don’t have to switch between apps to get the experience you want. Get full support for your Nest Protect and Nest x Yale Lock. Enjoy better controls for smart smoke/CO alarms, locks, appliances, and more.6
Continued improvements
We’ve taken your feedback to heart
Improvements to the Home app help it run more smoothly and reliably than ever. Load times are shorter, camera feeds are snappier, and managing your devices – including older Nest thermostats and smoke/CO detectors – is smoother than ever.
Supercharge your smart home with Google Home Premium
A smart home that can follow commands is good. But a smart home that understands what you need is even better. That’s where Google Home Premium comes in.
More intelligent security
Security that understands what it sees
With Gemini, your Nest Cams and Nest Doorbell understand more. Instead of a generic “person detected” alert, your camera can now tell you it saw “Sergei walking with a dog.” And Home Brief gives you a summary of recorded events in a daily recap, so you don’t miss a thing at home.7
Help me create
Create home automations in seconds
Home automations just got easier in the Google Home app, with help from Gemini. Just type what you’d like to have happen and within seconds your custom automation will be a reality. You can also browse through suggested automations based on the devices you currently own.2,3
New devices.
Fresh updates.
With new devices joining the family and ongoing upgrades for the ones you already own, Google Home is always growing with you
Meet the new Nest line-up,designed to shine with Gemini. Experience crisp 2K views, smarter controls, and a seamless fit into your everyday routines.
Nest Learning Thermostat
Beautiful new displays
Your Nest Learning Thermostat is set to receive exciting new enhancements, including additional display styles to personalize its appearance and expanded Farsight settings. New seasonal faces change monthly for beautiful art on your wall all year long, and a minimalist option keeps it sleek. You can even go retro with the original Nest Thermostat face.8
Learn more
Early access
Request early access to Gemini for Home features
Make sure you’re using the latest version of the Google Home app, then open the Google Home app, at the top right, tap your profile picture (or your initial), tap Home settings, Early access.
Even more to explore
Discover the latest products, new features, and inspirational ideas
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Early access to the Gemini for Home voice assistant is available to select, existing US users with compatible speakers and displays beginning 10/28, gradually rolling out to all users with compatible devices in participating Google Home markets by early 2026. Requires Google Home app, Wi-Fi, and internet connection. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.
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Requires Google Home Premium subscription (sold separately), Google Home app, Wi-Fi, and internet connection. Features subject to change; available in select countries and languages. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.
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Home Automations may require additional enrollment and setup, and depend on working internet,Wi-Fi and service availability for compatible smart home devices (sold separately) included in the automations.
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Requires compatible speakers or displays (sold separately).
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Compatible speakers or displays sold separately.
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Compatible smart devices sold separately.
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Requires Google Home Premium Advanced plan (sold separately), Google Home app, Wi-Fi, and internet connection. Features subject to change; available in select countries and languages. Gemini features work independently of Gemini apps. Check responses for accuracy; results may vary.
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Google Home app required.