How To Remove Gemini from Home

[DannyCK]

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

[David_K · Accepted solution]

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

[Sjuser]

It's making Google home useless. And when I simply ask a question, like how to spell something, I get an automated answer telling me it's not included in my subscription. What the f*** no wonder they won't let us go back to Google Assistant cuz they're planning to make us pay for it

[Jcwmax777]

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

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

@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. 

 

[Jcwmax777]

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

[Jcwmax777]

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. 

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

@Jcwmax777 

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

Do you have a Nest Hub Max?

[jsm1963]

I'm starting to consider Alexa now.

[fantasyocean]

I don't want better trash, because it's still trash. I the simple Assistant back. 😞

[Mowo2007]

This!!! I don't want to chat with it for 10 minutes, but I'd like to be able to ask a followup question without having to say HEY GOOGLE over and over. Plus the new answers are not the same quality. I'm so mad. I didn't realize I couldn't revert back after trying it.

[Shari5]

exactly!!! How come it doesn't keep the listening open for a little bit anymore so we can ask follow-up questions without having to say "hey google" EVERY.SINGLE.TIME! It's maddening! I hate these changes! Give me the old assistant back!

[PattyC]

I would have never updated to Gemini.   I even bought a nest hub and it had continued conversation but then it lost it.    I have 5 google products and none are working correctly.  Hate it soooo much     

[NeoDinian]

Same here.  And this was after doing 2 weeks of research to make sure everything is needed worked with gemini.  It never occurred to me that google would remove something as simple as continued conversation.   Now I have 6 home devices that I HATE working with.   Something as simple as me saying thank you after a task, and hearing "no problem".    The ONLY benifit I currently see (or rather, hear) is a NORMAL voice, rather than the almost robotic voice of G.A....

[metroknowm]

I believe Amazon Alexa launched continued conversations recently.

[CherokeeGem]

Exactly 

[PattyC]

I dont have the visual indicator either.   I had it but its gone 

[Skitz]

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**?

[AGIII]

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.

[metroknowm]

The reality of the cloud-based llms being forced via Google's offering is very much a reality currently. I am planning to abandon all my Google products and services across the board which represents about 20 years of usage (for many reasons obviously), and researching class action opportunities.

[Chesterfield100]

I agree with all that has been posted here.  Gemini is awful!  It's slow, can't understand the simplest of commands, and feels like voice recognition software from 2004.  This is supposed to be the future??  Maybe it's time to move to Alaska and live off the land.

[Gemini0is0trash]

Im shook to think this gemini assistance is the best google can give. Its trash

[Christopher1811]

I too would like to express my frustration with Gemini. On my phone when I say "take me home" rather than opening directions I get text telling me how I could Google it or open maps. Wtf. Still I was dumb enough to put it on my home devices thinking I could revert it like I am able to on my phone. Big mistake. Google please allow me to undo this. I will be your most vocal critic. 

[Christopher1811]

I just called Google and got it! It is a bit of work but well worth it. First unlink any Google speakers or Google displays from your home. Next factory reset all Google speakers and Google displays. Next go to your settings and leave the home. Make a new home and be very careful not to accept anything Gemini. Finally relink your devices. 

[ggwp]

That sounds like a royal pain in the arse, especially given how many Google devices I have throughout the hoe ... but thank you for this solution. I'm going to give it a go this weekend ... so wish me luck!

[geminihater79]

Please be sure to follow up and let us know if this works. If it does, I am spending a few hours this weekend doing it.

[Christopher1811]

It did work! I do want to note I did not unlink any of my "work with Google" devices. I do have two homes in the app so maybe that made a difference but when I remade the home profile with the same name all my Works with Google devices were back. I had to put them in the correct rooms, and add them to the house as opposed to them being at the bottom but I was extremely pleased not to need to relink all of that. 

[jsm1963]

"Next go to your settings and leave the home."

Where is this step?  In the device after reset?

[DrSunnyD]

My biggest issue is I have like 25 lights and three cameras. My gas is the cameras will have to be reset too

[yerzhl]

Hi, I'm nest and google speaker user here. I've read all your comments and very thankful for your reviews. I'm glad I've read all your comments before migrating to that useless Gemini. I wonder in what year they will improve their gemini at least at the same level of google assistant. I did switch to Gemini on my phone but I can't hold it anymore and switch back to Google Assistant until now. Gemini even don't know when my birthday is and it really suck. It's quite fun when it sing you the special song after reading all the task.

[ELVISN]

The new Gemini app on Google home is horrendous.

Can't perform a simple task like what's the weather feel like? (Like what's the real feel)

It just tells the temperature and that too in a Yankee lingo. 

We want our old home back.

[StevenG]

The other thing you'll notice is that basic responses are unnecessarily detailed. Ask for the temperature outside and instead of getting back a simple "It's currently 43 degrees outside" you'll get something like "It's currently 43 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois." (Ie, it will include your neighborhood, city, and state and let you know the temperature is in Fahrenheit every single time). It's obnoxious, but there is a quick fix at least:  You can ask Google to stop doing that unless you specify a different unit of measurement or location.   As in, "Hey Google, stop giving me the unit of measurement every time I ask for the temperature" and "Hey Google, stop specifying my location every time I ask for the temperature outside."

[Matt202]

it is a workaround but we shouldn't have to do that in the first place. If Gemeni is such a good, natural speaking peice of technology, it should be programmed to "talk" like we talk. I have yet to talk to any human that gives a response in long form like that. If I ask you what time it is, you tell me its 12:45. I would look at you like you were crazy if you responded with its currently 12:45 PM central standard time.  Gemini is a mess and they are trying too hard to be first to launch. I would rather they be last to the party with a program that works as intended than to have to deal with this trash

[Ahr69123]

Join a class action lawsuit here on this forum

[Shari5]

where do I sign up?????

[JC4]

Sigh, Nest Hub Max isn't working after the change to Gemini. 

[Skipcastro99]

I tried to get gemini to play classical music and it would not so until I swore at it, then it played it  All of the voices offered offend. For the life of me I don't understand why google is forcing it on us. It is conversationally challenged. I much prefer Assistant . I was able to change my phone back but not my other home devices and I have several. Alexa!!! Is now better than google and I may have to change over.

Google is going to lose a lot of business due to this unwanted change. Think "New Coke" or "Cracker Barrel"

REMOVE GEMINI!!!!☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[mh7]

After being ready to remove and remake my Google Home, Gemini suddenly started working correctly today.  I don't know what happened, but it is working in the way I expected.  Dates, driving estimates, playing videos on YouTube correctly, etc.  

[Matt202]

You're 3 months in since you put up that last post....is it still working properly?  I would be surprised if it is but we are talking about Google here so who knows, maybe they finally got something right

[McPolecat]

In Canada, I have my house set up for Google, though Alexa can run pretty much anything Google can. I had noted Google assistant was getting stupider over the last few years (worked great in the beginning). I went the way of Gemini hoping it might have become smarter with simple tasks in Google home but i find it talks more but still just as home stupid as Google assistant ended up. At least with Alexa you can revert back to old Alexa after trying Alexa plus. Google needs to go back to it's roots when it could handle simple on off requests for your house and answer simple questions and let you follow up. I would sign that petition. 

[Shari5]

It doesn't remember commands. I am 100,000% sure that I know what time zone I am in. So when I ask the stupid Google home what time it is, I don't need it to tell me the time zone. I have told it numerous times not to tell me and it keeps saying that it will remember that but it doesn't. It will remember for one day only. 

Also, I cannot play music on whole house anymore. It is one speaker only.. which sucks. What is the point of being able to add a whole house group if you can't do this? 

I hate Gemini so much!

[Ahr69123]

Class action