Organize your homes and devices in the Google Home app

Organize 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 5 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

Create a home

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Settings Add .
Select Home.
Follow the on-screen instructions.

Tip: Up to 5 homes can be added in your account.

Switch between homes

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Favorites The name of the current home.
Select a new home from the list.

Note: If the dropdown icon doesn’t appear when you select a new home, it means that you only have one home registered in the Home app.

Rename a home

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Settings .
Tap the name of your home Home nickname.
Enter the new name for your home.
Tap Save.

Delete a home

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 you might own. Your customized 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 Favorites .
At the top, tap the down arrow .
Select the home you want to edit.
Tap Settings .
Scroll to the bottom Delete this home .
Tap Delete home.

Create and manage rooms

Create a new room

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Favorites or Devices Your device's tile.
Tap Settings Device information Placement.
- 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.

Rename a room

Open the Google Home app .
If you have more than one home, tap Favorites .
At the top, select the home with the room you want to rename.
Tap Settings Devices, groups & rooms.
Tap the name of the room you want to change.
Tap Name Enter a name Save.

Delete a room

Open the Google Home app .
If you have more than one home, tap Favorites .
At the top, select the home with the room you want to delete.
Tap Settings Devices, groups & rooms.
Tap the name of the room 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

Add a device

Tap Settings .
Tap Add choose a device.
Choose the type of device to set up and follow the onscreen steps.
Alternatively, you can tap Devices Add.

Remove a device

Tap Devices , then touch and hold the device you’d like to remove.
Note: For Nest Cameras and Doorbells, find and select the 3-dot icon once a device is selected.
Select Settings Remove device Remove.
Note: For Google Wifi devices, choose the factory reset option instead. For more details, refer to Factory reset your Wifi device.

Move a device to a different home

Open the Google Home app .
If you have more than one home, tap Favorites .
At the top, select the home you want to edit.
Tap Favorites or Devices .
Touch and hold your device's tile.
Tap Settings Device information Home.
- If Device information isn't an option, tap Home.
Tap the home you want to move the device to Next Move device.
If asked, tap the room you want to move the device to Next.

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.

Important: If you have a device that can't be moved to a different home, you need to factory reset your device and set it up again in a new home.

Rename your device

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Favorites or Devices .
Tap your device's tile.
Tap Settings .
Tap Device information Name.
- If Device information isn't an option, tap Name.
Enter a new name for your device.
Tap Save.

Remove Voice Match or Face Match from your devices

Voice Match recognizes 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.

Note: If you turn off Voice Match or Face Match for individual devices within a home, your voice and face patterns should still be available in the home. You can also continue to let Voice Match and Face Match automatically be enabled on new compatible devices.

To access or remove the audio clips or photos 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 Google Assistant.
Tap Voice Match or Face Match.
You can uncheck 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 enrollment recordings:

On your phone or tablet, go to My activity.
Tap Menu Other activity.
Scroll down to “Voice and Face Match enrollment,” and tap View data.
Tap Delete all enrollments Delete.

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.

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