It’s time for Google to fix the Nest Hub

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It’s time for Google to fix the Nest Hub
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Google could be prepping a Nest Hub update alongside the new Home app and Pixel Tablet. Or it could ignore the Nest Hub entirely! Guess we’ll see.

). If my editor, Dan Seifert, presses the icon on his Nest Hub Max, it opens the Games pane, which is what it’s supposed to do. If I press Games onNest Hub Max, it pulls up the video feed from the Nest cam in my game room, which happens to be named Game Cam. The buttonAnother example: half the time, the Nest Hub Max can’t hear me say “Hey Google” unless I raise my voice. There’s a slider in the Google Home app labeled “Hey Google” sensitivity.

Another big issue here is that you cannot meaningfully customize the interface, either on the device or in the Google Home app. The only way to reorder rooms and devices is to rename them so they show up earlier in the alphabet., which allows you to add devices and groups as favorites and — as of a couple weeks ago — reorder them. That option has yet to appear on the Nest Hub.

Now that games are being deprecated, Google has put a News tile on my interface. Because I live in America, the News tile usually shows either celebrity nonsense or headlines about people getting shot and killed. I cannot change the sources for this News tile, and I cannot get it off of my interface.

Take that News tile: I can open Google Home on my phone and tap the card for the Nest Hub Max. From there, I go to Notifications & Digital Wellbeing > Digital Wellbeing > Filters > Nest Hub Max > News & Podcasts and tap Block news. This blocksIn order to set up meaningful parental controls —

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