The Google Home app is still so bad, Nest cam users are jumping ship

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• Users who migrate their Nest cameras to the Google Home app will lose a lot of features.
• Zoom and enhance, shared livestreams, and timelapses are some of the missing items.
• Users are upset enough that many are switching to alternative services.

Recently, Google started*allowing all Nest cameras from 2015 onwards to be added to the Google Home app. The transition*hasn’t been smooth. An embarrassing number of features are missing once you migrate, and it appears that as a result, many users are now looking elsewhere for their security camera needs.

Google’s support page that details how to transfer from Nest to Google Home lists which features are missing from the latter, and it’s a longer list than it should be. The missing features that stand out are time lapses, safety clips, supersight close-up tracking, microphone sensitivity, zoom and enhance, changing Wi-FI networks without resetting, and more. Here’s the complete list:




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