""I want to be very direct, the Google Home app has not been the experience that we've always wanted it to be," Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer at Google Home and Nest, told reporters in a briefing ahead of today's news. So before the company could work on adding new AI features, it had to solve the app's other problems, he said. "Number one was performance," he said. "Performance is definitely a journey. We are not at the destination...It's got to continue to evolve.""
""Over the past several months, Google says it's made some major improvements, leading to 70% faster startup, 80% fewer crashes, and other battery and memory improvements. Over the past year, it's also shipped over 100 performance updates and app features to the app, which today works across over 800 million devices from more than 50,000-plus OEMs, meaning companies that make devices compatible with Google Home. (Google had announced support for 750 million devices at its developer conference back in May 2025).""
""In addition, the company is working to make the Google Home app the only app Nest users need to manage their devices, more than a decade after the company's 2014 acquisition of the device maker. Over the years that followed, Google has slowly and iteratively been bringing Nest app features to Google Home, and now feels that journey is complete.""
Google released a redesigned Google Home app focused on improved design, performance, reliability, and Gemini AI integration. The company reports a 70% faster startup, 80% fewer crashes, and battery and memory optimizations after shipping over 100 updates in the past year. The app now supports more than 800 million devices from over 50,000 OEMs. Google is consolidating Nest features into Google Home so Nest users can manage devices from a single app, following the 2014 Nest acquisition. The redesigned app launch coincides with new Nest devices and an upcoming Google Home smart speaker.
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