Google Home could finally better support Nest x Yale locks (APK teardown)

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• Strings within the Google Home app suggest that new functionality related to passcodes is coming to the app.
• While this could be for future hardware releases, theres a chance that this is existing Nest x Yale lock users who have been stuck without passcode-related features in the Google Home app ever since the Nest app was deprioritized.

Google and Yale announced the Nest x Yale smart door lock back in 2017, with the smart features of the lock controlled through the Nest app. However, the company sunset the Nest app in favor of the Google Home app in 2021. Despite “transitioning” to the Google Home app, Google never really managed to get full feature parity with the Nest app. An upcoming Google Home app update could help bridge some of the gaps, finally giving Nest x Yale smart door lock users the ability to use passcodes through it.

In the latest Google Home app v3.19.1.3 update, we found the following strings that reference passcode functionality:




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