Video History is Nest’s cloud-based video recording and storage service. Your Google Nest Cam automatically stores videos securely to the cloud so that you can access them anytime. To access Video History for your Cameras in the Google Home App:

  • Open the Google Home App.
  • On the home screen, select your Camera.
  • Near the bottom of the screen, tap ‘History’.

Here’s more information on video history.

You can view the Live Stream of your Camera from the Google Home App whenever you’re connected to the internet.

Here’s how you can view Live Stream:

  • Open the Google Home app.
  • Tap Cameras to view all your Cameras, or scroll down and select a specific one.
  • If the camera isn’t streaming, tap Turn On.
  • If your Camera is offline, tap Retry to reconnect.

With Google Nest Aware subscription, you can use Familiar Face detection to teach your Google Nest Cam to recognise faces of people that you know, and notify you when it detects people it doesn’t recognise. Over time, facial recognition becomes more accurate at determining familiar faces and can send you more helpful alerts.

You can also manage your familiar faces library to change a person’s name or remove familiar people from the library. To turn Familiar Face detection on or off:

  • Open the Google Home App.
  • Tap ‘Settings’ > ‘Nest Aware’ > ‘Familiar Face Detection’ to turn on or off.

Here’s more information on Familiar Face detection .

Read more about how how Google Nest Camera stores your recorded video.

Read more about how Google Nest Camera collects data.

Currently, Google Nest Cam works with Google Assistant.

You can permanently delete your Google Nest Cam’s entire video history at any time. This will also delete any photo snapshots in video history. To delete the video history:

  • Open the Google Home App.
  • Touch and hold your device's tile.
  • Tap ‘Settings’ > ‘Delete Video History’.
  • Tap ‘Delete’ to confirm. All of your camera’s video history and snapshots will be permanently deleted.

Here’s more information on deleting camera footage.

You can easily save events as video clips on your phone with the Google Home App. You can only download video clips from detected events in the video history. You cannot download video clips from footage with no activity. The maximum clip length setting for your Camera will affect how long video clips can be. Follow the steps below to create and download a video clip:

  • Open the Google Home App.
  • Select your Camera.
  • Tap ‘History’ near the bottom of the screen.
  • Scroll to an event in your Camera’s video history timeline. You can also tap ‘Full History’ for a list of events.
  • Choose the event you want, then tap ‘Event Details’.
  • Near the top of the screen, tap ‘Download’ to save the video clip to your phone. From there, you can share the video clip via email or social media app

Here’s more information on saving clips.

You can access your Google Nest Cam and control the zoom feature from the Google Home App. Open the app and select the camera you want to look at. Once you are looking through your Camera’s live feed, pinch or spread your fingers out to zoom in or out.

Google Nest Cam will go into idle mode when it’s running on battery and when there is no activity to be recorded or it hasn’t been activated for an alert due to no detected motion. To stream live video in this case, you will need to tap ‘Live Video’ for your Camera in the Google Home App.

No. Once turned off, the Google Nest Cam can only remain connected to your home Wi-Fi.