Google is back this week updating all of its Google Home-related products, from the app and Gemini for Home to the hardware it still supports. On the hardware side of things, we’re seeing updates for the Chromecast with Google TV, Nest WiFi and Nest WiFi Pro, and its Nest and Google Home Speakers.
These updates all have several changes that do everything from bring new Android security patches to Google Home Platform updates and enhanced streaming performance. These are looking big.
In the streaming department, Google is pushing updates to both the Chromecast with Google TV (4K) and Chromecast with Google TV (HD). These updates bring the August Android security patch, fix a bunch of bugs, and improve the performance of connectivity, media streaming, and display.
For Nest WiFi and WiFi Pro devices, Google is doing things like enhancing mesh network resilience and node setup, tweaking mesh RSSI and client-steering performance, and rolling up Google Home Platform updates with comprehensive security enhancements.
Finally, for Nest and Google Home speakers, Google says it has enhanced the streaming performance on all of its speakers, tuned speaker pair volume (both in bass and minimum volume levels), improved local discovery within the Google Home app for speakers, fixed a Bluetooth audio streaming bug, fixed WiFi 7 issues, and more.
The list of changes is substantial and can be viewed in full below.
As a reminder, you can’t exactly manually update most of these devices. You could try to on your Chromecast with Google TV devices, but the Nest and Google Home speakers typically update automatically behind-the-scenes.
Google TV Streamers
Software updates for Chromecast with Google TV (4K) and Chromecast with Google TV (HD):
- Android Security Patch Level upgrade to August 2026
- Connectivity, media streaming, and display performance improvements
- General bug fixes and system stability enhancements
Nest Wifi
- Nest Wifi (2019) router and Nest Wifi point
- Enhanced mesh network resilience and DNS fallback improvements
- Other stability and security vulnerability fixes
- Nest Wifi Pro
- Networking: Enabled automatic failover to ISP DNS when public DNS is blocked. Enhanced node setup reliability.
- Platform & Wireless: Optimized mesh RSSI and client-steering performance, and enhanced wpa_supplicant and DHCP client stability.
- Ecosystem & Security: Rolled up Google Home Platform updates and applied comprehensive security enhancements.
Nest and Google Home Speakers
- Audio playback: Enhanced streaming performance on Nest Audio, Google Home, and Google Home Mini for smoother audio playback.
- Speaker Pair Volume Tuning: Improved audio quality by reducing boomy bass and ensuring minimum volume levels remain clearly audible.
- Local Network Discovery: Improved faster and more reliable local device discovery within the Google Home app for Google Home Speaker, Google Nest Audio, and Google Nest Mini.
- Bluetooth Audio Streaming on Resume: Fixed a bug where Bluetooth audio streaming from a connected laptop or device would automatically pause after receiving a voice “resume” command.
- Wi-Fi 7 Router Compatibility: Resolved setup and connection failures preventing smart speakers from connecting to Wi-Fi 7 access points using WPA3 security.
- Speaker Group & Stereo Pair Visibility: Fixed an issue where stereo pairs and speaker groups could unexpectedly disappear or become undiscoverable in the Google Home app.
- Google Meet Voice Call Controls: Fixed an issue where users were unable to end Google Meet calls using voice commands
