Home app Activity

Open Activity Activity icon in the Google Home app to review important events in your home. You can also add filters to create a customized list of events.

Activity shows you information like:

Activity detected by your Google Nest products, like Nest camera events
Network issues detected by Nest Wifi
Reminders about additional features and services for your Google Home and Nest products

Tip: To get notified about important home events, even if you forget to check your activity, turn on Google Home app notifications.

Check your home's Activity

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Activity .
Check the list of events and suggestions.
- To get more details, tap an event or suggestion.
- To take action on an event or suggestion, tap it.
  - If multiple actions are available, tap the action you want to take.
- To remove an event or suggestion, tap Open card options Dismiss.
  - Tip: Dismissed events still appear in Home history.

Customize your Activity

Customize the Google Home app's Activity Activity icon . to show only the events you want.

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Activity .
At the top, tap Filter.
Select the events and devices you want, then tap Show results.

Home history

Your Home history shows you events that happened in your home, like Household Routines that started or Nest camera events.

Check the Home history

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Activity to get a list of home events, with the most recent at the top.
To scroll through your history, swipe up or down.

Filter events

To check for specific types of events, you can filter them by room, date, people or sounds detected, and more.

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Activity Filter.
Tap the filters you want Show results.
- Tip: Filtered history only includes days with the selected types of events.
To remove a specific filter, tap the next to the filter name.
To remove all filters and return to your full history, tap Filter Clear all Show results.

Some of the event examples include:

Event type
Seen events	Unfamiliar face Familiar face Person Package Vehicle Activity or animal Motion
Heard events	Smoke alarm Carbon monoxide alarm Glass breaking Person talking Dog barking Other sound
Linked services	Service linking Permission changed Data accessed
Other	Presence sensing Doorbell
Devices	Cameras Speakers and displays Wi-Fi Thermostats Date

Delete history

Camera history

Before you delete your camera’s video history, here are a few things you should know:

When you delete camera history, it will delete all of its video history in the app. It won’t delete individual clips you saved.
You can delete all history for specific cameras, but you can’t delete individual or specific types of camera events.
You can also delete camera history in the Nest app. If your camera is in both apps and you erase the camera history from one app, it will also erase it from the other.

Delete your camera’s video history

Important: Save and download video clips you want to keep before you erase your camera's video history. Learn how to create, save, and download video clips.

Open the Home app .
Select the camera you want.
Tap More Settings Delete video history.

Other events

You may be able to delete other events based on their type.

Open the Google Home app .
Tap Activity the event.
Tap More Delete Delete.

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