With Ask Home, through conversation, you can use streamlined home controls, get information about your home's status and history, and create automations in the Google Home app. You can ask it to remember preferences so it can personalize interactions with your household.
You can control devices with commands like "Turn off all lights except the kitchen." You can also ask questions about home activity, such as "Which lights are on?"
Features requiring a Google Home Premium subscription are currently available in:
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United States (English)
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Canada (English and French)
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United Kingdom (English)
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Ireland (English)
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Australia (English)
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New Zealand (English)
Get started with Ask Home
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Open the Google Home app
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Tap the Search bar.
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Read and acknowledge the Google Gemini for Home disclosures
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Tip: You can access the search bar on all 3 tabs: Home, Activity, and Automations.
Features available without a Google Home Premium subscription
Tip: Only administrators aged 18 and older can access features outside of quick search.
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Quick search: You can now quickly search for devices and automations right from the search bar. As you type, results and relevant suggestions will appear instantly.
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Simple device queries: You can now ask questions about your devices. Simply say, "Which lights are on?" or "Is the front door locked?"
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Real-time device control: You can now give simple commands like, "Close all blinds," and it will instantly follow through.
Additional features available to Google Home Premium subscribers
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Automation creation: You can now create automations using natural language in Ask Home. You can also access Help me create in the Automations tab of the Google Home app to create automations. Learn more on how to create automations in Google Home with Help me create.
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Recurring automations: "Turn off all lights whenever we are away."
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One-time automations: "Later this evening at 7 PM, make the living room warm and play our favorite music."
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Saved information: You can have Ask Home remember things about you or your household, such as your favorite color, to personalize your experience.
Additional features available to Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers
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AI descriptions and AI notifications: Your camera events will now have detailed captions. Instead of just "person" or "package," the captions will tell you more about what's happening in the clip. You'll also get these detailed descriptions in your camera notifications.
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Search video history: Find specific events recorded by your cameras by asking questions like “Did the dog go outside today?”
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Home Brief: Receive a daily summary each evening of the most important events captured by your cameras.
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To personalize your Home Brief, just tell Ask Home what matters to you. You can also ask follow-up questions about your Home Brief or you can ask for a custom summary for any topic and time frame.
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Saved information
Ask Home can personalize the experience for members of your home based on information you’ve requested it to save. It uses this information to learn your household’s preferences and information and uses that to provide relevant responses and suggestions.
Save new information
Ask Home may ask if you want it to save something based on your conversation. You can also request that it save something by entering a phrase like “Remember that our dog’s name is Charlie” into the prompt. Other than during onboarding, you’ll need to explicitly request or confirm you want Ask Home to save something before it is saved.
Use saved information
After you’ve saved information, you can use it in conversation with Ask Home. For example, if you asked to save your favorite color as blue, you can ask “Set living room lights to my favorite color.”
You can also personalize your Home Brief using saved information. For example, "Focus my Home Brief on kids’ activities" or "Don't mention vehicles in my Home Brief."
Delete saved information
To make Ask Home forget saved information, say "Delete all saved information" or "Forget everything you remember" and you'll be asked to confirm.
Check saved information
You can ask Ask Home about specific saved information by asking, "What is my favorite color?" You can also ask all your saved information by asking, "What do you remember?"
Troubleshoot unsupported queries
Ask Home tells you if it doesn’t understand. It suggests alternative phrases or actions.