The Google Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max are all-in-one smart displays, combining a smart speaker with a touchscreen display. They apply the Google Assistant voice assistant to operate via voice commands and tin exercise everything a Google Nest smart speaker does—and a lot more.

Whether you're a proud new owner of a Google Nest Hub or just considering ownership 1, y'all want to know what exactly you can exercise with it. Well, there'due south a lot you lot can practice with a Google Nest Hub, as you'll soon find.

1. Go a Daily News Conference

Want to get a quick overview of current news and events? Your Google Nest Hub can read and brandish a news summary on its screen. Only say "Hey Google, what's the news?" and you'll hear—and see, onscreen—the latest news headlines and stories. You tin even personalize your news feed from within the Google Home Android and iOS apps.

2. View Weather Conditions and Forecasts

Google Nest Hub weather screen

Just interested in the weather? Say "Hey Google, what's the weather?" and your Google Nest Hub will read you the current weather conditions and forecast, and display the upcoming forecast onscreen. Swipe the screen right-to-left to view forecasts for later in the week.

3. Operate Your Smart Abode Devices

Google Nest Hub controlling smart home devices
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The Google Nest Hub is a smart habitation hub that can control other smart home devices. Connect your smart bulbs, smart plugs, smart doorbells, and smart thermostats and then use the Google Nest Hub to control everything all via vocalisation commands or on the screen.

four. Play Your Favorite Music

Google Nest Hub playing music
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Your Google Nest Hub does a nifty task playing your favorite music. You can use the smart speaker to play music from your favorite streaming music services, including Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube Music.

All y'all demand to do is sync your Google account with your music account in the Google Domicile app, so y'all can tell Google to play a particular playlist, aqueduct, album, artist, or vocal. You'll run into details near the currently-playing rail onscreen, along with onscreen playback controls, then you can break the music or jump back or forwards a track.

5. Mind to Podcasts

Just every bit you can heed to music on your Google Nest Hub, you can also mind to your favorite podcasts. Only connect to your favorite podcast or streaming service, call up the podcast you want, and settle in to listen. Yous can employ your Nest Hub to heed to audiobooks, too.

6. Sentinel Videos

Google Nest Hub watching video
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Here'south something else you can do on a Google Nest Hub and not on a Google Nest smart speaker—watch videos. Yep, that large screen is there for a reason. Utilise the Google Dwelling app on your smartphone to connect to whatever number of streaming video accounts, so you can call up your favorite videos on your Nest Hub with a simple voice command.

Google lets you spotter videos from Apple tree Telly, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Paramount+, Sling TV, and, of form, Google's very own YouTube and YouTube TV. Just tell the smart speaker, "Hey Google, play Stranger Things on Netflix" or something similar and your hub will open that service and start playback.

seven. Plough Into a Digital Motion picture Frame

What does your Google Nest Hub do when it's just sitting there, waiting for your adjacent command? That large screen can function every bit a digital picture frame, pulling images from your Google Photos account and displaying them for all to encounter. Your Hub will randomly bicycle through your photos and even create some interesting photo montages and combinations—all automatically.

8. Participate in Zoom and Google Video Chats

Google Nest Hub video call
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If y'all have a Google Nest Hub Max y'all can apply your device to participate in video chats and video meetings. That'southward because the Hub Max has a built-in webcam. The regular Google Nest Hub does not, and cannot do video chat.

At nowadays, the Hub Max supports video calling via Google Duo, Google Meet, and Zoom.

To acquire more about making the most of Google's chat service, read our tips about improving the Google Meet experience.

You'll need to connect your account to your Google business relationship via the Google Home smartphone app, so y'all can outset a meeting by saying, "Hey Google, start a meeting."

You're so prompted to tap the Meet or Zoom carte du jour on the display. Follow the onscreen instructions to invite others and get the meeting started.

For ane-to-one Google Duo calls to other Duo users, only say "Hey Google, call John Smith," using the name of the person yous're calling.

If you have other Google Nest devices—with or without screens—in your home yous can link them together into a high-tech home intercom system. Say "Hey Google, circulate," so start talking, and your message will be heard on all the Google Nest devices in your home.

10. Respond Your Doorbell

Google Nest Hub answering Nest doorbell camera
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If y'all have a Google Nest Doorbell, you lot can see who's ringing your bell on the Google Nest Hub display. Y'all tin then talk directly to the person at your door. You can even actuate the live camera to keep constant tabs on what's happening on your doorstep.

11. Help You lot Cook

Google Nest Hub with gumbo recipe

Put a Google Nest Hub in your kitchen, and you tin use information technology to aid you lot cook. Search for and display your favorite recipes and and then walk through them onscreen—many with stride-past-step video instructions. Y'all can even apply the Hub'south voice-activated alarms and timers to make sure your cooking is as precise as possible.

12. Monitor Your Sleep

Google Nest Hub sleep tracking
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Finally, if you have a second-generation Google Nest Hub (not the Hub Max), you can use your smart display to monitor your sleep. The Nest Hub includes Soli sleep sensing technology to rails your motions while you're sleeping. Built-in sensors detect light and temperature changes, changes in your breathing, your snoring and other noises, and other sleep disturbances—without attaching any annoying slumber monitoring equipment to your torso.

Do this for several nights and the Google Nest Hub learns your sleep patterns. This lets it make personalized recommendations to help you get a better night'due south sleep. Information technology also generates a daily report detailing the information it collects. If y'all have trouble sleeping, this may be a game-changer.

The Google Nest Hub—More than Than Just a Smart Speaker With a Screen

These are but some of the many things you can exercise with a Google Nest Hub. The opportunities are near endless—if yous're not sure whether the hub does information technology, just say "Hey, Google" and inquire for it.

That touchscreen display makes the Nest Hub a lot more functional than a normal smart speaker.

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