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

[Matt202]

When did I get hired by Google to be a beta tester for them, what is my salary and when can I expect my first check? That is exactly what is happening here, they are using us a unpaid labor to test their software and report the countless bugs that plague it. I don't know about you but I never signed up for that job but since I'm being forced to participate and not given any option not to, I think it's time a team of lawyers get involved and get us compensated for our forced employment!

[PaulUttermohlen]

I am in the US and Gemini for Google Home tells me that today is Friday, December 14. While today is the 14th, it is most certainly NOT Friday. I can not have a device that cannot do something as simple as read a calendar accurately!  It's credibility is at ZERO with me. it sucks!

[pjmarkert]

I told Gemini that it reported the day of the week wrong. It then apologized and corrected it, now it works

[PaulUttermohlen]

Yeah, yeah. It works until next week. Last week on Saturday, it told me it was Friday. I corrected it. It apologized and for the rest of Saturday it got the day right. Then on Sunday and on Monday it insisted it was Friday, the 13th. Worked fine through the rest of the week. It's Saturday again and Gemini says it is Friday again...
Ask what the distance is between Fiji and Tahiti. It will tell you that it cannot find driving directions for your destination. Insist that you simply want the distance in miles. It will play music.... "Telling Pandora to play music on the living room speaker..."
So, it's not fixed. And I can't remove it.

[KS_shine]

That's interesting. When I tell Google that it reported the weather incorrectly or traveling ETA incorrectly, it doesn't even respond or improve.

[Skipcastro99]

You need to tell it u want to give feedback...

[Bikeandsail]

David_K Gemini on home cannot provide simple directions and times to destinations. That was one of the features I used the most. Do I need to trash my Google Home?

[KS_shine]

Unfortunately, I've been seriously considering it. I can never trust that it's actually telling me the correct temperature or wind speed and it has NEVER given me the correct ETA to a specific destination.

[Matt202]

That's technically not true, there actually is, or should I say there WAS a way to go back to the original but Google has steadily been shutting down everything related to the original assistant so even if you do go back, I would guess that it can only do about 40% to 50% of what it used to do. I don't think Google thought this through very well when they decided to dismantle a perfectly good assistant before they had a replacement even remotely close to being ready. The funny things is that I used Gemini to actually get the answer on why the assistant isn't working. Even their shiny new project (Gemini) reports that Google made a huge mistake by slowly removing features from the Assistant before Gemini was ready to take over. And Gemini even said that it can not do most tasks that the Assistant did easily on a regular basis. 

Anyway, the way to remove Gemini and revert back to the Assistant is not recommended but here ya go: 

1). Remove/delete EVERY device from the Google Home app

2) Factory reset EVERY device. By every, I mean every device. Cameras, speakers, displays, any and everything that is attached to the Google Home app. Do NOT pair them back to your home yet.

3) Delete the Home from within the Google Home app. I left mine as the default word "Home" but if you changed it to Smith or Jones or anything else, you will need to delete that from the app.

4) Clear the cache and data from the Google Home app

5) Not needed but I did this anyway, restart the phone/tablet/whatever you're using the Google Home app on. 

6) Launch the Google Home app again

 There shouldn't be any "homes" listed unless you intentionally made others or intentionally left them on the profile. Either way, do NOT use those profiles with ANY devices you previously deleted and factory reset

7) Create a new "Home" (name it whatever you want EXCEPT what it previously was named. Do not use the previous name as that can inadvertantly pull Gemini data into the new profile which totally defeats the purpose of resetting everything) and then one by one begin adding the freshly factory reset devices back into that new Home profile. 

You SHOULD be back with the Google Assistant but remember, Google has shut down most of it's abilities already so they're is a very high chance it wont be very helpful anymore. Also, Google is delaying the Assistant shut down by a few months because of the botched Gemini rollout so you'll have more time with it but, as much as I have my hopes up, I highly doubt they will reactivate any of the removed features. 

It also should go without saying but do not click on that little shiny button (the try Gemini or early sign up or whatever they label it now) that Google is dangling in front of you again. All that does is invite Gemini back in and your back to where you were before you reset everything.

[Eespiritu]

Gemini literally can't do half the things that Google home could. It can't tell me how long it's going to take to get somewhere, it can't help my kids brush their teeth (playing a song for them.) Why would you make a worse version of the thing you already made? I'm this close to selling all of my devices and finding another assistant.

[TinaBoo]

Its been 24h with an accidental switch over to gemini on my mini dot and I'm ready to light it on fire. respectfully. 

[DannyCK]

If all you've got is a mini dot be sure to check out Matt202's instructions above on how to revert to the old assistant. 

But be warned: Last I heard, Google plans to pull the plug on Assistant entirely in March.

[SmartHomeH-TAGS]

@TinaBoo I read March 2026 for mobile phones, and late 2026 for Home speakers.

US users are still having trouble with Gemini on Home and the Home app hasn't completely transformed.

[DannyCK]

Thanks for that information! That makes me feel a little better. But the heart of my home automation is my Pixel tablet, so that's probably losing Assistant with the phones.

[Primedmonkey]

Google assistant was 10000000 times better.  Gemini cant even get the weather correct.  Keeps giving me DCs weather... im 5 hours from DC, how the hell is that helpful.  Need to take the I out of AI.  It's just artificial and dumb.

[ggwp]

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.

[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!

[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 

[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?