Over the weekend, Google followed that message up with the announcement that the missing-app problem was now resolved. We can confirm that everything seems back to normal on our own displays.
Original article: January 30, 2026 (3:27 PM ET): Apps are going missing from Google’s Nest Hub smart displays. A Reddit post showing a relatively empty app drawer on a Nest Hub led us to check our own devices — and sure enough, my Nest Hub Max is also missing shortcuts to apps it once had, though I’m not sure when they disappeared.
User Head_Worldliness5101 posted on the Google Home subreddit yesterday, saying that the apps previously accessible from the app drawer on their second-generation Nest Hub smart display are now mostly gone, leaving only Sling, Stories, and YouTube TV. As they tell it, they’ve had their Nest Hub for about a week, and they had access to apps from the app drawer as recently as the day before their post.