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The Nest app is down for many users

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Why This Matters

The widespread outage of the Nest app highlights vulnerabilities in Google's smart home ecosystem, impacting many consumers' ability to control their connected devices. This incident underscores the importance of reliable cloud services for smart home technology and may influence future industry standards and consumer trust. As smart home devices become more integral to daily life, ensuring their stability is crucial for user confidence and safety.

Key Takeaways

If you're having problems with the Nest app today, you're not alone. Despite assurances from the official Nest status page that "everything is running smoothly," well, they aren't. Based on our own experience, Reddit reports and the Downdetector outage map, something is amiss with Google's smart home ecosystem.

Users began reporting issues with the Nest on Downdetector at around 3:30 AM ET on Friday. About an hour later, r/Ok-Influence-164 posted a Reddit thread, sharing their problems. (The thread now has over 400 comments, with many users concurring.) I've been unable to access the Nest app since early this morning, and no amount of sign-outs or app closures has helped. If you try to use it, expect to spend a long time staring at the screen in the above photo.

We reached out to Google for comment and will update this story if we hear back.