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How To Remove Gemini from Home

DannyCK — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:32:50 GMT

I've been very underwhelmed by the Gemini integration with Google Home. How do I remove Gemini integration from Google Home?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

SmartHomeH-TAGS — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:36:14 GMT

What's wrong with it?

Do you live in the US?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

DannyCK — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:23:32 GMT

The Gemini integration gets stuff wrong a lot. Particularly the summaries of what it's seeing on the camera.

Yes, I live in the US.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

David_K — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:24:49 GMT

Hi @DannyCK

See the "How to turn off Gemini for Home camera features" section of the following help article.

Learn about Gemini for Home camera features - Google Nest Help

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

DannyCK — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:29:13 GMT

Well that wasn't hard at all to find. 🙄

Thanks, David_K, I appreciate your time and help.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

David_K — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:54:13 GMT

You're most welcome!

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

pkp55 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:01:16 GMT

How can I revert back to the original Google assistant experience on Google Home. It is a complete mess right now.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

danturner — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:12:54 GMT

Agreed. How do I revert to the original Google assistant on Google Nest Hub?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

ggwp — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:36:11 GMT

Anyone figure out how to revert or remove Gemini assistant from all devices? It's really terrible.

1. "Good Morning" automations aren't followed from the app settings:
- It will display what Google is saying on screen i.e. "Today's weather in ..." and not continue on to the news sometimes
- It will start talking to me from 1 device and then mid-automation start playing from another device in the house which is pissing off the family
- It will not follow the news sources selected in the iOS Google Home app
2. Gemini constantly mishears words
- Constantly gets confused with words or mishears what we're saying. It's way worse than the old assistant
3. Google Home Max speakers now have lipsync issues
- I have 2 Google Home Max speakers which are plugged in via 3.5mm audio cable to remove latency, however, now there's a distinct 1-2 second latency and lipsync with video is completely off
- This didn't happen prior to upgrading to Gemini
- It also doesn't make any sense that Gemini should effect it since audio source is via cable and not wi-fi

This latest upgrade to Gemini assistant is terrible and has completely borked our whole home setup.

Google shouldn't be rolling out mass updates like this without actually testing their systems.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

David_K — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:40:26 GMT

There is no way to do that unfortunately. Once you switch your home to Gemini for Home voice assistant, it can't switch back to Google Assistant.

Learn about Gemini for Home voice assistant - Google Nest Help

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

Geminiistrash — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:12:21 GMT

Why isn't there a way to switch back to Google Assistant on my nest mini? Gemini is trash. I don't want it on my device anymore. I've factory reset my device multiple times. Why isn't there a way to revert to the original settings?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

SmartHomeH-TAGS — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:14:37 GMT

@Geminiistrash

The old Google Assistant will eventually be replaced by Gemini everywhere. No one will have the option not to have the new AI.

I've resisted the urge to change too, but when I found out we won't have the option I signed up to Google Home Early Access.

So it's either now or never.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

Jcwmax777 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:49:32 GMT

GEMINI IS TRASH!! I lost "Continued Conversations," which was the Main Reason I chose Google over Alexa.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

Skitz — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:55:09 GMT

Updates to the home hub are HORRIBLE. I use the hub just about every morning for the last few years to set my timers while among coffee i often ask for a "4 min and 15 second timer" this has worked for years and now this Gemini garbage can't even handle basic assistant functions. It's already bad enough that they went from a super fast super responsive local Google Assistant model and transition to this slow dumb and useless "Gemini Assistant" I'm not getting anything better just downgrade after downgrade. Do the people that make these products even use them???? Did they fire all their QA staff for AI bots that can't do **bleep**?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

SmartHomeH-TAGS — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:59:43 GMT

@Jcwmax777

Alexa has continued conversation too. It's called Follow-up Mode.

But it's even better than Google's feature as you can select which individual speakers you want to use it with.

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Jcwmax777 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:39:58 GMT

This was 5 years ago when I bought hubs for my entire house. I did a side-by-side test comparison with Alexa and. I also had each for about a couple weeks and close past with daily tasks, responses in accuracy

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Jcwmax777 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:41:06 GMT

I did a side-by-side comparison. I used each one for a couple weeks and google home surpassed with flying colors, Alexa. With responses, Accuracy and much faster.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

SmartHomeH-TAGS — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:37:02 GMT

@Jcwmax777

I've got Nest Hubs too. It's worth having both systems.

Do you have a Nest Hub Max?

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

AGIII — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:12:16 GMT

Yikes. I have serious concerns about Google forcing us all to use Gemini for Home. LLMs hallucinate and can behave erratically. This isn't something we have the technology to solve right now. We need automations to be reliable.

If they force this on us and it doesn't work I'm going to be more than a little furious. I've invested a lot in my currently working solution. Gemini may be great as a general LLM, but as a reliable assistant? Someone is getting ahead of themselves at Google.

Re: How To Remove Gemini from Home

Sjuser — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:03:30 GMT

Why. It sucks