Organise and manage your devices through the Google Home app by creating a home. You can add people to share control of the home and its linked devices. For example, add your grouped living room speakers, office lights and thermostat into a home and invite your family to be members of that home.
Important:
- Permission changes made to your Google Home, such as adding or removing people from a home, may take up to five minutes to take effect.
- If you use the Nest app and haven't migrated to a Google Account, you can still manage homes and people who share access to your home with the Nest app.
Create and manage your homes
- Open the Google Home app
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- Tap Settings
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- Select Home.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
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.Tip: Up to five homes can be added to your account.
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Favourites
- Select a new home from the list.
Note: If the drop-down icon doesn't appear when you select a new home, it means that you only have one home registered in the Home app.
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Settings
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- Tap the name of your home
- Enter the new name for your home.
- Tap Save.
You can delete a home from the Google Home app if you're the last person in the home. If you aren't the only person, you first need to remove all other people. Otherwise, you can only remove yourself from the home, while others continue to have access to the home and its devices.
When you delete a home, it is removed from your Google Account. You won't be able to use the Google Home app to control devices you added unless you set those devices up again in a new home. This includes:
- Lights
- Displays
- Speakers
- Cameras
- Thermostats
Deleting your home will also lock the data associated with the home, such as video history from Nest cameras that you might own. Your customised thermostat settings will also be deleted. However, data associated with your Google Account will not be deleted. For more information, go to how to remove data associated with your account.
To delete a home:
- Open the Google Home app
- If you have more than one home, tap Favourites
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- At the top, tap the down arrow
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- Select the home that you want to edit.
- Tap Settings
- Scroll to the bottom
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- Tap Delete home.
Create and manage rooms
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Favourites
- Tap Settings
- In case Device information isn't an option, tap Placement.
- Select a suggested room name or scroll to the bottom.
- Tap Add a custom room.
- Open the Google Home app
- If you have more than one home, tap Favourites
- At the top, select the home with the room that you want to rename.
- Tap Settings
- Tap the name of the room that you want to change.
- Tap Name
- Open the Google Home app
- If you have more than one home, tap Favourites
- At the top, select the home with the room that you want to delete.
- Tap Settings
- Tap the name of the room that you want to delete.
- Tap Delete room.
Tip: When you delete a room, any devices in the room are also removed. You can add the devices to a different room.
Add and manage your devices
- Tap Settings
- Tap
- Choose the type of device to set up and follow the on-screen steps.
Alternatively, you can tap Devices
- Tap Devices
, then touch and hold the device that you'd like to remove.
Note: For Nest cameras and doorbells, find and select the 3-dot icononce a device is selected.
- Select Settings
Note: For Google Wifi devices, choose the factory reset option instead. For more details, refer to Factory reset your Wifi device.
once a device is selected.- Open the Google Home app
- If you have more than one home, tap Favourites
- At the top, select the home that you want to edit.
- Tap Favourites
- Touch and hold your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
- If Device information isn't an option, tap Home.
- Tap the home that you want to move the device to
- If asked, tap the room that you want to move the device to
Note:
- Speakers, displays and Google streaming devices can be moved.
- Some Nest and Wifi devices can't be moved to a different home.
- If you move a Charging Speaker Dock to another home, you need to move your Google Pixel Tablet to that home too.
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Favourites
- Tap your device's tile.
- Tap Settings
- Tap Device information
- If Device information isn't an option, tap Name.
- Enter a new name for your device.
- Tap Save.
Voice Match recognises your voice to make sure that only you can access things like your calendar, contacts and reminders. Face Match allows Google Assistant to identify you and show you personal and helpful content without you having to ask first.
To access or remove the audio clips or photos that you took during Voice Match and Face Match setup, go to https://myactivity.google.com/ or follow the steps below.
To remove Voice Match or Face Match from your device or home in the Google Home app, follow these steps:
- Open the Google Home app
- Tap Settings
- Tap Voice Match or Face Match.
- You can untick a device to remove Voice Match or Face Match from a specific device, or remove Voice Match or Face Match from the home entirely.
To remove your Voice Match and Face Match enrolment recordings:
- On your phone or tablet, go to My Activity.
- Tap Menu
- Scroll down to 'Voice and Face Match enrolment' and tap View data.
- Tap Delete all enrolments
For more information about how to share a home and manage people in the home, refer to Manage people and permissions in the Google Home app.