With Google Nest and Home speakers and displays, you can make calls to friends, family, and businesses with your voice. You can also make video calls with a Nest display. Before you make a call from your speaker or display, set up the calling methods you want to use.
Important:
- Legacy calls, previously known as Duo, are being upgraded to Meet calls on speakers and displays.
- During the upgrade, support for Group calling on Nest displays and using multiple accounts with Meet will be delayed, but will be available soon.
- Outgoing and incoming group calls cannot be made from Nest speakers. Only incoming and outgoing 1:1 calls are supported by Nest speakers.
- Nest displays support both incoming and outgoing 1:1 calls as well as incoming and outgoing group calls.
Make a call on your Nest speaker or display
Start a voice call
Important: This feature may be restricted or blocked by Downtime, Filters, or Do not disturb if Digital Wellbeing is enabled.
Voice calls are available on all Google Nest and Home speakers and displays through Google Meet. If you live in the US or Canada, you can also use Google-supported or mobile calling with Google Fi and Google Voice.
Use voice commands to start a call
You can use voice commands to start a call once you’ve set up your preferred calling method.
Say "Hey Google," then:
- "Call [contact name]."
- "Call [business name]."
- "What is the nearest [business]?" then "Hey Google, call them."
- You'll get a prompt to add the name and number to your Google contacts.
- "Call [phone number]."
Use your display to start a call
You can make a call with the touchscreen if you’ve set up household contacts on a Nest display.
- Swipe down from the top of the display screen.
- Tap Communication.
- Select Call
on the “Household contacts” screen. The calling method used depends on the contact selected.
Start a video call
You can make video calls with Google Meet.
Video calls are available on Google Nest Hub, Google Nest Hub (2nd gen), and Google Nest Hub Max. The device you call must have a camera. Nest Hub and Nest Hub (2nd gen) can receive video but can't send video.
- Say "Hey Google, video call [contact]."
- If you've set up household contacts on a Nest display:
- Swipe down from the top of the display screen.
- Tap Communication.
- Select Video call
on the “Household contacts” card.
Start a group call (Nest displays only)
Important:
- Group calling on Nest displays will be temporarily unavailable during the update to Meet calling, but will be available soon.
- Group calling is available in English in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
- This feature may be restricted or blocked by Downtime, Filters, or Do not disturb if Digital Wellbeing is enabled.
You can make group video calls with Google Meet on Nest displays. This feature is available in English in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
To start a group call:
- From your contact search box, pick the contacts you want to start a group call with "Hey Google, start a group call."
- Start the group call.
Depending on the group size, the screen might not show everyone in the call. To view someone else in the call, tap the overflow and select the person you want.
If Digital Wellbeing is enabled, this feature may be restricted or blocked by Downtime, Filters or Do not disturb.
Receive a call on your Nest speaker or display
You can receive Google Meet calls on your Nest speaker or display.
- To answer a call, say "Hey Google, answer the call."
- To decline a call, say "Hey Google, decline the call."
You can also use one of the following options:
- Tap Answer.
- Tap Decline.
- Tap the top to answer.
- Press and hold the top to decline.
- Tap the line on the top or side to answer.
- Press and hold the line on the top or side to decline.
- Tap the center to answer.
- Tap and hold the center to decline.
- Tap the side to answer.
- Press and hold the side to decline.
Tip: To temporarily block calls at undesired times, change your call settings.
Mute or unmute a call (Nest displays only)
- To mute a call: On your Nest display screen, tap Mute
.
- To unmute a call: On your Nest display screen, tap Unmute
.
End a call
To end a call with your voice, say "Hey Google," then:
- "End the call"
- "Hang up"
- "Stop"
- "Disconnect"
To end the call with a touch control:
- Google Nest Hub Max, Google Nest Hub: Tap End call
- Google Home, Google Home Max: Tap the top
- Google Nest Mini, Nest Wifi point, Google Nest Audio: Tap the center
- Google Home Mini: Tap the side
If the recipient ends the call, you should get an end call tone.
Check activity
You can get a voice recording of the query used to start the call, or queries used with the Assistant in My activity. No other information is recorded.
Google doesn't retain:
- Voice data
- Google Meet calls
- Google to mobile device calls
Google only saves:
- Call duration
- Errors
- Number of calls