TL;DR
- Users on Reddit report that apps previously accessible on their Nest Hub displays have disappeared without explanation.
- Similar reports have been going around for years, but it seems that more users lost access to apps this week.
- We’re not sure what’s causing this. We’ve reached out to Google for comment.
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.