Manage people and permissions in the Google Home app

Full control of all people, devices, and services

• Add and remove other people, including you
• Delete the home
• Add and remove devices, like speakers, displays, lights, or locks
• Share devices and data with partner services
• Access all devices and services
• Manage all settings of the devices in the home
• Manage all home settings
• Manage presence sensing settings on shared devices

Check activity from all devices and services

This includes activities, events, services, and subscriptions linked to the home such as:

• Video and audio data captured on cameras and other devices
• Home-wide activity like presence history
• Nest Aware

Check and change the home address

The address can be used for:

• Assistant queries on your home devices
• Location-based features like local traffic and weather
• Presence-based features like automations
• Nest Aware features

Check names, emails, and access levels of all people in the home

• Everyone can check who is an Admin or Member.

Set up Assistant features like Voice Match and share linked services like YouTube

Important: Only the primary user of a Pixel Tablet can set up Voice Match and personal results on Pixel Tablets.

• Set up personal results, Voice and Face Match, and automatically link your media services, like YouTube, to your Assistant. You can do this on existing and new Assistant devices, like speakers and displays, and devices with Google Cast in the home
• Services that you link to your Assistant will be available to everyone in this home

Limited control of devices and services

• Can’t add, manage, or remove people
• Can’t delete the home
• Can’t add, remove, or share devices
• Can’t share devices and data with partner services
• Can’t link subscriptions to the home
• Can’t manage presence sensing settings on shared devices
• Can manage personal presence settings
• Can add and remove their own services

If an Admin grants Settings permission, Members can:

• Access all devices and services, those added later included
• Manage settings of the devices in the home
• Manage home settings

Check activity from devices and services

If an Admin grants Activity permission, Members can:

• Check activities and events from all devices and services linked to the home (services include subscriptions like Nest Aware)
• Check video and audio data captured on cameras and other devices, and home-wide activity like presence history

Check, and if allowed, change the home address

• The address can be used for Assistant queries on your home devices, location-based features like local traffic and weather, presence-based features like automations, and Nest Aware features.

Check names, emails, and access levels of all people in the home

• Everyone can check who is an Admin or Member

Set up Assistant features like Voice Match and share linked services like YouTube

Important: Only the primary user of a Pixel Tablet can set up Voice Match and personal results on Pixel Tablets.

• Set up personal results, Voice and Face Match, and automatically link their media services, like YouTube, to their Assistant.
  • This can be done on existing and new Assistant devices, like speakers and displays, and devices with Google Cast in the home.
• Services that they link to their Assistant will be available to everyone in this home
• For children, some Family Link supervision tools won’t work in the home. Learn how to set up parental controls on Google Assistant devices.

Accounts for children under 13 years of age (or your country’s applicable age of digital consent) will have Member access by default. Both Activity and Settings permissions are automatically turned off for child accounts. Only people with Parent permission in a Family Link group can invite Google Accounts for children. Learn how to add a parent to your family group.

Child accounts have the same permissions as an ordinary member but aren’t allowed to:

• Create a home in the app.
• Manage or change the following:
  • Digital wellbeing (features like parental controls, filters, and so on.)
  • YouTube settings for Google Assistant enabled devices
  • Familiar Face library
  • Sleep Sensing

When someone sends a request to join your home, you should receive an email with the invite request and a notification on your mobile device.

1. Follow the link in the email you received or tap the notification on your mobile device.
2. Choose an option:
   • To invite a person to join your home, tap Continue.
   • To reject their request, tap Decline.
3. To continue, tap Next.
4. Review the person’s access to your home.
5. Tap Send.
6. If the person you’re inviting isn’t already in your Google Family Group, you're asked if you’d like to add them. To invite them to your family group, tap Add to Family.
   • To skip this step, tap No Thanks.
   • You can have up to 6 people in a family group. If you already have a full family group, this option doesn't appear.

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. Tap Favorites Inbox .
3. Tap your pending invitation.
4. Review what’s shared when you join a home.
5. To accept, tap Agree & join or tap Decline to reject.
6. Create a nickname for the home. This nickname only appears to you.
7. The next time you connect to the home’s Wi-Fi, to finish Google Assistant setup, open the Home app which adds you to the devices connected to the same Wi-Fi.

To let Google Assistant read or show results specific to you:

• Set up Voice Match
• Set up Face Match
• Turn on personal results

When you remove yourself from a home:

• You no longer have access to the home and the devices and services associated with that home. Learn more about sharing your information.
• Other people continue to have access to the home.
• Other people no longer have access to the devices or services you set up, including Nest thermostats, alarms, locks or cameras. If you set up a Nest Cam with your Nest Hub Max, the Nest Hub Max won’t be available.

Exceptions: The following devices should still be available to other people in the home even if you remove yourself from the home.

• Google Pixel Tablet
• Google Nest Wifi
• Google Wifi
• Assistant-enabled speakers and displays
• Google streaming devices

• You won't have access to Nest Aware features, including video history.
• Other members continue to have access to Nest Aware features.
• Your Google TV account isn't removed from this home.
  • You have to sign out of this account on this home’s Google TVs or in account.google.com under "Security" then Your devices.
• If you’re the only member of the home, the home gets deleted, including home data such as video history footage and thermostat settings.

To remove yourself from a home:

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. If you have more than one home, tap Favorites .
3. At the top, select the home you want to edit.
4. Tap Settings .
5. Scroll to the bottom of the "Settings" then tap Leave this home.
   Alternative:
   1. Under the home name, tap the profile icons of people in the home then select your profile icon.
   2. Tap Leave this home. If you’re the last Admin in the home, the option will show as Delete this home .

Important: You can only remove other people from a home if you have Admin level permission.

When you remove people from a home:

• They’re notified that they're removed from the home.
• Their account isn't linked to the devices and they won’t have access to the devices or services in the home. Learn more about FAQs on Privacy: Google Nest.
• Assistant-enabled devices such as Google Pixel Tablet and Nest speakers and displays, including those set up by the removed person, should remain in your home. These devices are no longer linked to the person you removed.

Exception: Video history footage could be deleted and Nest Hub Max might get removed.

• They no longer have access to Nest Aware features, including video history.
• Your Google TV account isn't removed from this home.
  • You have to sign out of this account on this home’s Google TVs or in account.google.com under "Security" then Your devices.
• If the person you remove from the home migrated their Nest Account and devices to a Google Account, those devices may be removed from the home. Data associated with their Nest devices and the home may be permanently deleted, including video history footage and thermostat settings.

To remove other people:

1. Open the Google Home app .
2. If you have more than one home, tap Favorites .
3. At the top, select the home you want to edit.
4. Tap Settings .
5. Under the home name, tap the profile icons of people in the home.
6. Select the profile icon of the person you want to remove.
7. At the bottom, tap Remove this person .

Related resources

• Join or leave a family on Google
• Let your child use Google Assistant on your devices
• About presence sensing and how to manage your data