Widespread outage hits Google Home and Nest devices around the world

TL;DR A widespread server-side outage is affecting Google Home, Nest Hubs, Nest Minis, and third-party displays globally. Symptoms include displays stuck on white screens or loading wheels, delayed voice responses, and failed automations. Troubleshooting steps such as rebooting or performing a factory reset currently do not fix the issue. Users must wait for a server-side fix from Google. Google kicked off the month with a fresh Google Home update that brought along new features for the smart home setup. iOS users did end up experiencing a hiccup when a bug automatically turned on their smart lights, but Google quickly fixed the issue. Sadly, there’s now a significantly widespread outage affecting Google Home and Nest users worldwide, affecting displays, speakers, and automations.According to a plethora of user reports on Reddit, the Google Home outage appears to affect a broad range of devices, including Nest Hubs, Google Home Mini/Nest Mini speakers, and third-party Google Assistant-enabled smart displays. Affected smart displays are either stuck on a blank white screen or showing an endless spinning loading wheel whenever a voice prompt or physical interaction is initiated.The issue isn’t limited to displays, either. Multiple users report that basic routines and scheduled automations have completely stalled, with Google Assistant/Gemini either responding with significant delays or claiming devices are unreachable.The sudden failure has left several smart home owners wondering whether their hardware has permanently malfunctioned. Standard troubleshooting steps, such as power cycling or factory resets, do not appear to resolve the problem.Given the uniform symptoms across different generations of Nest and Google Home devices, this suggests a server-side disruption rather than hardware failure or a faulty software/firmware update. Google doesn’t maintain a status page to acknowledge issues affecting Google Home devices, nor has it addressed them on its social accounts, such as X.If your Google Home or Nest device is currently unresponsive, frozen, or failing to trigger automations, don’t bother with a factory reset at the moment, until Google fixes the underlying cloud infrastructure outage. For now, you just have to wait it out.We’ve reached out to Google to learn more about this Google Home outage. We will update this story as soon as Google acknowledges the issue or services begin returning to normal.Thank you for being part of our community. Read our Comment Policy before posting.