Cookbook/Saved Recipes Gone?!

[AbandonShip]

My Hub Max lives in my kitchen and despite the recent degrading experience google smart home

products have had recently, I’ve held on because i’ve spent hundreds of dollars on 8 units throughout my home.

But, the recent removal of cookbook/saved recipes is just ridiculous.  This was a GREAT feature for my frequent cooking. I could pull up favorite recipes and google would display them in large print, step by step.  

Now, it’s directing me to use the browser? Which ALWAYS crashes by the way. So now, this is basically a feature that’s gone. 

Im upset that Google is REMOVING features instead of improving or at least maintaining.  

This is shameful practice for those of us that invested in their smart home products. I guess I’ll be moving to alexa!

Google! Bring back cookbook/saved recipes!!!

[ZadiusC · Accepted solution]

Just read that they actually removed 17 features after laying off 12,000 employees last year. I'm a software developer, so I'm betting these features have bugs and they have no one to fix them now.

Here's the list of removed features if anyone wants to read what else they hacked off, https://support.google.com/assistant/answer/13971691?hl=en

[NorfolkAndWay]

Google Home Hub eh?

First you remove the ability to call other Google home devices which was the 'hub'  component in our family.

Then you remove the recipe features.  In our home, the kitchen is the heart of the home .

So Comms are gone.  Recipes are gone. And I have now learnt that 15 other features have been pulled?

Why?  Does Google want all of it's customers to move to Apple or Amazon?

Is Google giving up on home tech?

[gmajor]

The removal of the cookbook feature removes the reason to have google home in my home... it was the main feature I used.

[csdenco]

Same! I'm actively migrating to Alexa to try that out. Google just keeps pushing its users away. 

[Lizzy808]

No way is it coming back .. they’re done IMO . Just bought echo 10 third Gen ….. gonna give it a try and now too late Google.. gave you plenty of time to respond .. zero accountability in this fiasco !!! 

[Schnauzerking]

My response to the removal of this feature violates community standards. 

[PSMXBL]

I would imagine, if Google would be straight with us as their customers, that they were likely getting heat from the websites the recipes were coming from into Cookbook. I had lots from different sources in my cookbook, and I loved the feature (best feature of all in my opinion, as it was practically very useful very often). However, if you are one of the cooking sites that no longer has traffic and ad revenue because Google has summarised your recipe onto it's own servers for use with this feature, then you will be after google for some recompense. This is total conjecture on my part, but if it isn't the main driving force, I would be amazed. 

They *could* argue on our behalf that it is no different from us printing recipes off, or writing them down and keeping them, but that requires lawyers and time and they probably don't see the value in the feature like we all do as end users. 

It's a shame that what I bought no longer does what I bought it for, and I for one will not invest any more into an ever changing ecosystem that gives less often with one hand than it takes with another!