Learn more about Ask Home

Important: Some Ask Home features are only available with Google Home Premium.

Ask Home lets you control your home, check its status and history, search your camera, and create automations, all 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?"

Availability

Ask Home features are rolling out in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. Some features are only available with Google Home Premium.

Feature	No subscription	Google Home Premium: Standard plan	Google Home Premium: Advanced plan
Quick search
Simple device queries
Real-time device controls
Create automations
Saved information
Home Brief
Ask Home video history search

Get started with Ask Home

1. Open the Google Home app .

2. Tap the Search bar.

3. Read and acknowledge the Google Gemini for Home disclosures.

4. Tap Next  Get started.

Tip: You can access the search bar on the Home, Activity, and Automations tab.

Features available without a Google Home Premium subscription

Important: Only administrators aged 18 and older can access features outside of quick search.

• 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.

• Simple device queries: You can now ask questions about your devices. Simply say, “Hey Google, how many lights are on?”

• Real-time device control: You can now give simple commands like, “Hey Google, turn on the lights.”

Additional features available to Google Home Premium subscribers

• 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.

  • Recurring automations: "Turn off all lights whenever we are away."

  • One-time automations: “OK Google, dim the lights, set the temp to 72° and turn on the TV.”

• Saved information: You can have Ask Home remember things about you or your household, such as your favorite color, to personalize your experience. For example: You can first state a fact like, "I work from the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 6pm," and then later ask a related question such as, "Did I receive any package deliveries while I was at work this week?"

Additional features available to Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers

• 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.

• Search video history: Find specific events recorded by your cameras by asking questions like “Hey Google, were any packages delivered yesterday?”

• Home Brief: Receive a daily summary each evening of the most important events captured by your cameras.

  • 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. For example, "Remember that I want any animals or birds observed around my house to be mentioned in my home brief."

Saved information

Important: This feature is only available with a Google Home Premium subscription.

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.

Ask Home tells you if it doesn’t understand. It suggests alternative phrases or actions.