Your smart home just got even smarter.
The redesigned Google Home app brings enhanced camera features, powerful automation updates, and new ways to use the Google Home app across smart devices1,2 including the brand new Pixel Tablet. Controlling your smart home is easier – and more enjoyable – than ever.
Your Google Home app, your way.
The Google Home app is now more organized and easier to use across devices. Enjoy updated views, easier navigation, and even more ways to access your smart devices.
The new Favorites section makes it easier to access the things you care about most. See your favorite devices, automations, and actions all in one place.
Find all your compatible devices quickly in a simple list view. Check the status of your devices1,2 with ease. See if your office light is on or your kitchen speaker is still playing, with just a few taps.
Customize your smart home so your devices do what you want, when you want, with automations3 in the Google Home app. Automate your home around your schedule to save energy while you're away, and enjoy your favorite comfort settings when you arrive home.
Use the Activity tab2 to better understand what’s happening in and around your smart home. And easily find and manage devices, services, and members in the Settings tab2.
Improved camera features give you added support.
Video history
Quickly find the footage that matters to you with quick switching between views, plus fine-level video history scrubbing2,4.
Live video
View live video from your Nest cameras and doorbells, right from the home screen in your Google Home app2.
Experience your smart home like never before with Pixel Tablet.
Enjoy a smart home experience that launches right from your Pixel Tablet. In Hub Mode2,5, everyone in your home can control smart home devices. And with the fully integrated home panel, you have even quicker access to your personalized favorites.
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Get more control on the go with Google Home for Wear OS.
Set the temperature1,2 and turn on the lights before returning home from an evening walk. The latest updates to Google Home for Wear OS allow you to change the color of your lights, switch thermostat modes, and control compatible smart locks – right from your wrist1.
Automations that are anything but routine.
With Google Home, easily create helpful automations3 with your compatible devices. Schedule your cameras to turn on at night. Have your vacuum start cleaning in the morning. Dim your lights to a lower brightness when you leave the house. And much more.
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Set your thermostat to Eco Temperatures when everyone’s away3. Turn on your garage lights when motion is detected3. Lock your doors every night1,4.
Lock the front door, arm the security system, and turn on your cameras at the same time each night – automatically3,4.
Wake up to energizing music as the sun rises and turn on your TV3 with Chromecast6 to play the news. On Friday nights, change your lights’ color and play your favorite podcast3.
Now you can control more with the Google Home app, like starting an automation when someone enters the room, using the humidity level or temperature to start automations, open and close blinds as part of your Routines, and so much more1,10.
With the intelligence of Google, the script editor can help you write the automation scripts allowing you to focus on the outcome you want, instead of the coding details10. Now available in Public Preview.
Now, the script editor can help you write an automation using natural language prompts10. With the new help me script feature, type things like, “When it’s sunset, turn on my lights and close the blinds,” and get an automation script that you can customize and apply to your home. Now available as a limited-time experimental feature in Public Preview.
Chromecast with Google TV in your smart home.
Google TV takes streaming and live TV to the next level, bringing together your favorite entertainment from across your apps and organizing it all, just for you6,7.
Do more on Google TV.
Get the Google TV mobile app to cast directly to your TV8 with one tap, and use your phone as a remote while you watch.
Get the Google TV mobile app to cast directly to your TV8 with one tap, and use your phone as a remote while you watch.
Get the app
Use your voice remote to search across streaming apps and find what to watch fast. Just ask Google9.
Use your voice remote to search across streaming apps and find what to watch fast. Just ask Google9.
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Try new features and updates.
Public Preview gives you early access to the latest Google Home app features before they're broadly available. Request an invite in the Google Home app today.
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Requires a compatible smart device.
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Requires working internet and Wi-Fi.
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Home Automations require additional enrollment and setup, and depend on working internet, Wi-Fi and service availability from Google and third parties that manufacture devices included in the Automations.
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Home Automations should be used as a convenience feature for everyday home routines and not for life-sustaining or safety-critical use cases. Automations may not always work and Google is not responsible for any harms or losses incurred as a result of any failed Automation. For more information about Google Home product and service availability, please visit https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9327735?hl=en.
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Hub Mode requires Pixel Tablet to be locked in the accompanying speaker dock.
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Chromecast with Google TV requires a TV with an HDMI port, a Wi-Fi network, a Google Account, a nearby electrical outlet, and a compatible mobile device. Minimum OS requirements are available at g.co/cast/req.
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Subscriptions may be required for certain content.
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Requires a Chromecast with Google TV, or smart TV with Google TV, or Android TV built in. Both TV and mobile devices must be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
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Google Assistant may be required for full functionality.
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Personalized features require additional enrollment and setup. Routines are for convenience only, not safety- or security-critical use cases.