Google Nest devices, like the Nest Hub, have a unique set of Digital Wellbeing features that will soon be available for everyone in your family to set up.
Digital Wellbeing is best known for the options offered on smartphones, with devices such as Google's Pixel allowing you to pause apps, set timers for how long they can be used, and turn the display black and white at night. You can But Google also offers a suite of Digital Wellbeing tools for the Nest Hub and other smart home devices. These include music and video type filters as well as features that appear on these devices. There's also “Downtime,” which allows you to disable “Ok Google” and other features at certain times of the day.
These features are probably most useful on the Nest Hub, but technically apply to all Google Nest and Google Home products with Google Assistant (Nest Audio, Nest Mini, etc.).
Originally, these features could only be controlled by the owner of the device, i.e. the person who owns “Home” in the Google Home app. However, these controls are set to expand.
Email to customers using these features (captured as follows) android police), Google says that “starting this month” any member of your “home” will be able to control Digital Wellbeing features on Nest devices in your home.
Google explains:
We're making important changes to Digital Wellbeing to give household members more control over their devices. Starting this month, any member of your household will be able to manage their digital wellbeing filters and downtime schedules. Previously, only the person who set up the device could manage these features.
These changes mean that you can now share responsibility for managing these features with other people in your household, bringing Digital Wellbeing management behavior in line with most other device controls.
Google also mentions this on their support page, explaining how to share access to “Home.”
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