Lately there has been some trouble at home. No your At home, hopefully, but if you live in Google HQ, then maybe. Last week, people using the Google Home program flooded reddit with complaints Over smart home products that mysteriously stopped working – lights, cameras, smart plugs, you call it. Those complaints were so numerous, in fact, that Google even bothered to deal with them and act better. Things on the Googleverse were (or are) bad, to say at least. But just because they are bad now, that doesn’t mean they can’t get worse – and worse they could still get. For Google, that is.
As it turns out, Google’s passers -by for repairing their smart home app and doing better may not be enough for people, and all of that push could actually result in a good, outdated class activity.
“Kaplan Gore has begun to investigate a possible class action against Google LLC due to failing to remedy growing problems with its Google Home ‘Smart Home’ service,” the lawyer Kaplan Gore said in a statement. “Unfortunately, many users have reported functional problems with Google Home and associated Google and/or Nest devices, resulting in not recognized or properly executed commands. Users report that they are experiencing these problems despite their devices previously operating usually and despite having a stable internet connection.”
Hey everyone, I want to acknowledge the recent reactions about Google Assistant reliability on our home devices. I sincerely apologize for what you experience and feel!
– Anish Kattukaran (@anishkattukaran) 23 July 2025
Kaplan Gore also has a form for some users who experience these problems and ask them to fill out some information and join class action. In the immortal words of a criminal fighting cartoon dog Scooby-Doo, “Ru-Roh.”
On the one hand, it is wild that a company so titanic and well resourceful as Google has left its smart home program to reach the topic of a possible class activity process, but on the other, if you use Google Assistant a long time ago-it feels long. Google Assistant has steadily worsened over the years, and almost anyone using it every day. Even simple promises to turn on or turn off your lights feel and miss. This does recent things in the Google Home program to feel even more miserable, especially since these things have prevented many using smart products in their homes altogether.
According to Loads of complaints about RedditGoogle Home was so broken that some users reported not being able to even turn on and disable their smart lights. And it’s not just lights; All types of smart devices were swept, including other loudspeakers and even (distrustful) cameras and smart bells. If you experience similar problems, by the way, you can try to pull the Google Home program and tap settings in the bottom-right corner, then tap “Works with Google”, and a list of your synchronized programs appear. If they no longer synchronize, re-sync the application finding it under “Add New.” If they still synchronize and don’t work, turn off the application by hitting the icon and then hitting a “blurring account.” After that, you can try to sync once more and hope it works.
Even if that solves your problem, it may not do much to fix your overall satisfaction of using the Google Home App to check all your online connected products. And if that happens, I guess it is now a legal means to get some revenge. Whether something this will be enough to force Google to step on his loot, it remains visible, but clearly shouting about your stupid Google-branded smart speaker doesn’t reach us anywhere.
