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TL;DR Home users report receiving a message that “phone actions and automations will no longer be available starting in the first week of May.”
Google does not appear to have publicly shared any notice of a change to how automations work.
We’ve reached out to Google in the hopes of getting an explanation, but have not yet heard back.
Update, April 24, 2026 (04:30 PM ET): Google has responded to our inquiry and delivered an explanation about what’s actually happening to automations next month. Original article, April 24, 2026 (02:17 PM ET): Setting up your smart home can be a huge undertaking, configuring every last device just the way you like it — but once you have everything perfectly tweaked, you can just sit back and enjoy, right? Well, that’s sure what we’d like to believe, but we’re starting to get a little worried upon hearing reports of Google Home devices starting to tell users that they’re about to lose some critical functionality.
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Over the past day or so, we’ve started finding posts from Google Home users like evilwitch452 on Reddit or Gvaughn posting to the Nest Community, where they share the same tale: After completing an action, their device tells them, “just so you know, phone actions and automations will no longer be available starting in the first week of May.”
We have not been aware of any upcoming deadline for Google Home losing functionality like this, so that message is surprising to hear — and understandably, very distressing for users. We immediately reached out to Google for comment, but have yet to receive any response.
The idea of Google Home dropping support for automations just sounds wrong to our ears — after all, it’s been less than a year since we got that great new automation editor overhaul. That leaves us wondering whether the message itself went out erroneously, or whether it’s possibly referring to a more narrow use case that’s going away.
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