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How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:34:10 GMT

How do I turn off the new Home Brief that was just added a couple days ago? I don't find it useful at all, and on top of that, when I tap on the notification it just opens my Home app to the Favorites screen...it doesnt take me to the full brief. This seems to be a bug, happening every time on my Samsung Galaxy S24 (my partner's iPhone 17 opens the full brief when he taps on it though). But that bug aside, I'd rather just turn it off. I have been looking everywhere in the Home app but can't find a setting to turn this off. I know it's only once a day but it's annoying because I keep thinking it's a camera or doorbell notification, and getting this at 830pm freaks me out thinking someone is outside. And the information is not useful. I work from home all day. I don't need a recap of what happened. I've been here, I know what happened.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

scornea — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:18:33 GMT

please let us turn this off, I don't understand what the point of this feature is but I want it to stop.

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Vettro — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:05:18 GMT

Also want this off. It is intrusive, incredibly inaccurate, useless, and a waste of energy resources.

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Jako607 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 01:21:06 GMT

Seriously! Who thought this was a good idea?! I not only want to meet them but the person who decided there would be no obvious way to turn it off, so I can slap them silly! It's driving me nuts, every night I think someone is outside on camera but nope it's the stupid summary telling me people walked around the kitchen all day. No **bleep**, it was me, I've been home all day!

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

GabrielaG — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:36:18 GMT

Hi everyone,

Thank you for reaching out to the Google Nest Community. I understand you're concerned about the new Home Brief notification and are looking for instructions on how to disable this feature. I'm glad to help you get this resolved.

The Home Brief is a convenient, daily overview of what occurs at home. To stop it, you must disable the Gemini for Home camera features. This can be done by turning the features off completely or by disabling them for a specific camera.

Please check this article and follow the steps to turn off Home Brief: Learn about Gemini for Home camera features.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to post.

Regards,

Gabriela

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:33:58 GMT

Thanks, and I hope you realize that this is very dumb. We shouldn't have to give up every single Gemini and AI functionality of the system...features that I am paying for with the Premium subscription, in order to stop one silly useless notification. Just let us turn off the Home Brief. It's not that difficult.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

scornea — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:36:45 GMT

To manage notifications for Home Brief:

1. Open the Google Home app Google Home app.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
3. Tap Home settings and then Notifications and then General.
4. Turn Home Brief notifications on or off.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:43:41 GMT

There is no Home Brief setting anywhere in the notifications settings in my app. I just spent 40 minutes troubleshooting this with a Google support rep and sharing screenshots. They even had me uninstall the Home app and there is still no Home Brief setting anywhere, which they eventually acknowledged. They ultimately said they only way to stop those stilly useless briefings is to completely turn off ALL Gemini/AI settings AND leave the Public Preview in order to stop the Home Brief....which, as I said before, is a very dumb nuclear option that should not be necessary.... especially when I'm paying for the Premium plan.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:59:46 GMT

Best thing you can do now is tweet at product lead @AnishKattukaran and tell him this feature is not useful and at least let us toggle it off.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

AnishKattukaran — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:02:07 GMT

Hey folks, thanks for the feedback. For context, Home Brief is a capbilitiy of Gemini for Home. This started rolling out in early access last week. You can find more details on what it is here: https://blog.google/products/google-nest/gemini-for-home-launch/

The team and I would love your feedback, as you use it a bit, to know how it could be more useful to you? Also know that tapping the Home Brief should allow you to customize it to make it more relevant to you (ex: if you want the brief to focus more on packages, or something else).

And of course if you want to turn it off you absolutely can. Go to Home Settings > Notifications > General and turn off the toggle for Home Brief.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:35:31 GMT

I don't find Home Brief useful at all. I work from home. I'm home all day. I have all my cameras set up the way I like them and I'm appropriately notified of any event based on what I want to know (e.g. Motion at the doorbell). I don't want or need a summary of everything the cameras saw. This is not helpful for my use case. I simply do not want or need a summary of everything that happened. I am already notified by my devices, in real time, of things that I care about, and a summary of those same things (plus other random stuff like who made breakfast or went to the fridge) is never going to be useful.

Also, you should know that until this most recent version of the Home app that I just got today, there has been no setting in my Google Home app for Home Brief or any toggle to turn it off. I've been looking in the exact spot you mentioned for days and there was nothing about Home Brief until I got the latest version with the new UI and features (the version with the new toolbar at the top)...for me that's 4.0.53.2. Support has been mentioning this setting for days and I've not had it, so please note that not everyone may have this setting unless they have the very newest version of the app. But I'm happy to report that I do now see that setting and I've turned off Home Brief, so hopefully that's the end of this issue.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

cawlin45 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:15:22 GMT

If you want to turn off the new Home Brief feature, you can easily do so through your device or app settings. Open the app where the Home Brief appears, Go here to Settings or Assistant Settings, and look for Home Brief or Daily Briefing under notifications or voice updates. From there, you can disable the toggle or select “Off” to stop receiving these updates.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:45:14 GMT

Yes, if you read the most recent comment you'd see that the issue was that this setting did not exist at the time they pushed the Home Brief...for some people, including me, they pushed a server side update that added Home Brief notifications BEFORE they pushed an update to the setting to control it. So for a while, some of us had the useless notifications without any ability to turn it off. Hopefully everyone has the setting now to toggle it on or off, but initially we did not. That's what caused all the confusion and frustration....a botched rollout. Every Google support person I talked to said the same thing you said, the problem was that setting did not exist at the time.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jim83 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:36:49 GMT

Let us turn off the home brief. It’s terrible! There is no way to turn it off. I’m considering cancelling Google home and moving to Eufy because of it.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Jako607 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:16:05 GMT

I initially didn't have the setting either but now I do. They pushed the Home Brief before they pushed the setting to everyone. Check the settings as described by a couple others here in this thread...if you don't have a Home Brief option in there then you still don't have the update. I don't know if it's related but I uninstalled and reinstalled the Home app (it didn't lose any of my favorites and I didn't have to reset anything up) and not long after doing that the setting appeared for me.

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MplsCustomer — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:27:59 GMT

A week or two ago, I turned off "Home Brief" under Home Settings > Notifications > General Notifications.

It is now back on today with the latest update to the Google Home app, and the setting to turn it off is gone.

And Assistant Settings is now "Gemini for Home voice assistant" and there is no setting there either.

This is stupid. Forcing on us a useless feature that we cannot turn off.

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Cehsirop — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:56:36 GMT

I hate "Home Brief" by gemini. It feels intrusive and far too specific. While I understand our data is present for our own review, having it clearly described feels like spying and incredibly uncomfortable. There is no clear way to deactivate this feature and only found after several days of digging and coming across this post. I am prepared to cancel and trash all Google home features if this continues.

Re: How do I turn off the new Home Brief?

Irancll — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:09:03 GMT

@scornea wrote:
To manage notifications for Home Brief:
1. Open the Google Home app Google Home app.
2. At the top right, tap your Profile picture or Initial.
3. Tap Home settings and then Notifications and then General.
4. Turn Home Brief notifications on or off.