Back in 2021, Nest Hub picked up an update that made it easy to access select functions via touch with a selection of “apps,” but they’ve vanished over the past year or so.
While the exact timing is unclear, it was first highlighted on Reddit that apps on Nest Hub are simply gone. There are a handful remaining, including Search, YouTube TV, Sling TV, and “Stories,” but everything else has disappeared.
Back in 2021, the list included Broadcast, Calendar, Contacts, Duo, Games, Netflix, Meet, News, Pandora, Podcasts, Reminders, Shopping, Timer, Weather, YouTube Music, YouTube, and Zoom. Some of those were removed because Google discontinued products like Duo and Podcasts, but it’s a head-scratcher that the rest are suddenly gone.
We’ve checked a Nest Hub Max, Nest Hub (1st gen), and Nest Hub (2nd gen), and apps have disappeared on all of them. The folks at Android Authority found the same on their Nest Hubs.
That said, it does seem like this is just the latest in a line of these “apps” on Nest Hub disappearing. There are a couple of other reports in the last year showing that apps had been removed. The only difference in those latter two cases are that “Assistant” was still in place, but the rest of the list is identical. So what we’re seeing today isn’t really a brand new change, as much as it is the culmination of a couple of years of Nest Hub apps going away.
The last time we knew for a fact they were still available was in early 2024, when we took the picture at the top of the page.
Clearly, though, this wasn’t exactly a “beloved” feature, seeing as it went more or less unnoticed for months.
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