Google Home just announced a bunch of Gemini, smart home updates rolling out now

Google has announced a number of updates to the Gemini for Home experience that include various fixes and improvements to voice controls for your smart home, addressing quite a few widespread and niche complaints.

Google’s Chief Product Officer over Home, Anish Kattukaran, announced on Twitter/X. There are quite a few fixes coming, including fixes to how Gemini for Home voice commands handle things such as turning off lights in a room and using context to better address the intent of your voice commands.

Kattukaran detailed the following updates:

• Improved isolation: “Turn off the kitchen” now targets just lights, not plugs and unassigned devices
• Fixed targeting: “Turn off all the lights” now only executes in your home instead of targeting more than one
• Device context: Controls now understand what a device is even if that context is not in the device name
• Location context: Gemini for Home now “strictly” uses your home address from the Home app
• Premature cut-offs: Google has “significantly reduced” instances where Gemini cuts you off in conversation
• Overall reliability: Daily commands such as notes, reminders, timers, etc have been “signicantly improved”
• Better routines: Google says user-created rountines will trigger more reliably
• More reliable answers and music: Updated Gemini models “improve the quality” of general questions, also better support for newly-released songs
• “Live Search” for cameras: Gemini can answer questions about the current state of your home via Nest Cameras for Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers
• Nest x Yale Lock support: Now generally available, rolling out starting today
• New Nest Wifi Pro update: March 2026 update now rolling out with enhanced mesh performance
• More automation starters
  • “When the security system is armed…”
  • “If the device is plugged in…”
  • “If the Pixel Tablet is not docked by 9pm…”

Google hasn’t updated its support page with these changes just yet, but there are a lot of tweaks and fixes here. We’ll update our coverage when the support page is updated with any further changes.

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