How to prevent Tasks from showing up on Google Home Displays?

mojotooth — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:38:02 GMT

My family makes extensive use of Tasks to manage our medications, chores, exercise, lots of various aspects of our daily lives. Our use model for Tasks, combined with the fact that these tasks keep trying to show up on our Google Nest Hub and similar devices, means there is nearly always at least one box with a reminder of a task on our hub screen at all times. This is not the way we would like to treat Tasks. Some of the Tasks are even somewhat sensitive and we would not want visitors to our home to see them on the screens.

In general, I would like to keep any and all Tasks from showing up in Google Home. I have looked and have been unable to locate a way to affect this change. Can you help me out?

Re: How to prevent Tasks from showing up on Google Home Displays?

David_K — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 09:39:50 GMT

I'm not sure if tasks are covered by personal results, but you can give these steps a try.

Turn personal results off for specific devices:

Open the Google Home app.
Tap Favorites or Devices.
Touch and hold your device's tile.
Tap Settings and then Recognition & sharing and then Personal results.
Turn off Personal results.

You can also turn it off for all devices in the home:

Open the Google Home app.
At the bottom, tap Settings.
Under Home features, tap Google Assistant.
Tap Personal results.
Tap Turn off personal results in this home.

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