WARNING Microphone Icon is Inconsistent between Nest app & Website and Google Display

AdrianAugustus — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:00:27 GMT

The microphone icon on Google display & hub is now showing the microphone with a strikethrough.

The Nest app and website shows, and has aways shown, the microphone without strikethough, on all platforms: Android IOS, or website on Windows. The Display /Hub also used to show the icon this way until a recent update. In the five years of owning Nest devices, this icon has always been used to indicate that you need to press it to speak, whereas the microphone with strikethrough has always been used to indicate you need to press it to mute the microphone.

The latest update to the Display / Hub however has inverted this use case, and since there is no longer any obvious animation that the microphone is active, this led to an embarrasing situation that a conversation was broadcasted from my office through my doorbell that was not intended for a public audience. Well done Google, always changing things for the sake of it to the detriment of the user.

Let this be a warning to others who mistakenly follow the original implementation of the icons. I reserve any optimisim that Google will do anything to fix this, continually annoying changes and poor speech recognition seem to be a hallmark of Google Assistant & Home products.

Microphone - Display / Home Hub Turn on mic icon with latest SW for Display / Hub

Microphone - all other apps and previously on Display / Home HubTurn on mic icon on everything else from Nest

Re: WARNING Microphone Icon is Inconsistent between Nest app & Website and Google Display

Juni — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 19:14:44 GMT

Hi AdrianAugustus,

Thanks for reaching out. We appreciate people who are keen on sharing their thoughts with us. We're always looking for ways to improve. I'd suggest you submit feedback about it. See the article below on how to do it.

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*WARNING* Microphone Icon is Inconsistent between Nest app & Website and Google Display

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WARNING Microphone Icon is Inconsistent between Nest app & Website and Google Display

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