Google Home Premium: AI-Powered Smart Home Subscription Likely to Bundle with Google One

Google Home Premium may be bundled with Google One rather than offered separately

It's no secret that Google is overhauling its entire smart home play. The new strategy centers on powering the ecosystem with Gemini and launching refreshed Nest hardware. At the core is a new "Google Home Premium" subscription, which is expected to replace the current Nest Aware service. Evidence now confirms this service won't stand alone and will instead be packaged directly into Google One. The folks at 9to5Google dug into the code of the latest Google Home app (v3.41) and found strings pointing to this new Premium tier alongside a redesigned Google Home app. Bundling it with Google One is a logical next step, especially since subscribers in the UK already get Nest Aware (along with Fitbit Premium). Global rollout for Google Home Premium is still unconfirmed. If it launches worldwide, expect it to be a core feature of the Google One AI Pro plan or higher. Per the app's code, the service delivers expanded video history and intelligent alerts. The strings also point to its core function: deeply weaving Google's most powerful AI across its ecosystem for a unified experience at home and everywhere else. Most Google Home features currently don't cost a thing, but the advanced Nest tools still sit behind a Nest Aware subscription if you want to get the most out of your smart home setup. 'Familiar Faces' and motion recording could stay in the mix Google Home Premium is likely to keep the core Nest Aware function, like recording video after detecting motion and the Familiar Faces feature, allowing compatible cameras to learn and recognize frequent visitors. The real shift is toward intelligent awareness. Google bills it as "security that understands what it sees," offering detailed AI event descriptions, smart alerts, and daily activity summaries. When Google confirmed last month that Gemini would officially take over from Google Assistant in Google Home, it also shared that Gemini would come in free and paid tiers. Rumors suggest those paid options could be "Google Home Premium" and "Google Home Premium Advanced," likely replacing Nest Aware Plus. For context, Plus currently offers 24/7 continuous recording and extended video history. If these new tiers follow suit, they'll likely expand on those capabilities with deeper Gemini-powered intelligence. Beyond the new subscription, code hints point to a full Google Home app redesign, with "Ask Home" as its centerpiece. This feature lets you simply describe the automation you want or verbally search through your home's history. This major overhaul could likely launch alongside new Google Home hardware.

Google One might include Google Home Premium, redesigned Home app coming

Besides "Google Home Speaker," there are more details about the "Home Premium" subscription that is replacing Nest Aware. About APK Insight: In this "APK Insight" post, we've decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), we're able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. We'll try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how they'll look in case that they do ship. With that in mind, read on. Like Nest Aware, Google Home Premium lets your cameras "record video when they detect activity." You can also "teach compatible cameras to recognize who you know" (Familiar Faces). Google advertises "Security that understands what it sees" to "Keep up with what's important to you with detailed AI event descriptions, notifications, and daily summaries of what happened at home." Strings today also reference E911 emergency calling. "Google Home Premium Advanced" is also coming, which is presumably Nest Aware Plus with 60-day event history and 10 days of 24/7 history. Of note today is a line about how "Google Home Premium is included in your Google One subscription." This is already the case for Nest Aware in the UK (since 2024), and it remains to be seen whether that perk will be expanded worldwide. That's presumably Google One AI Pro and higher. Meanwhile, today's strings talk about a "redesigned app" with an "Ask Home" feature at the center: "Just describe what you want to automate, or ask to search your video and home history."

Your Google Nest Cameras Might Soon Get AI Features

An Advanced version of the plan could replace Nest Aware Plus Google Home Premium could be the name of the new subscription plan that replaces the existing Nest Aware. The popular security cameras from the Mountain View-based tech giant, Google Nest, come with a subscription that allows users to watch up to two months of old footage of any activity caught. But after recent reports claimed that the security device could soon be equipped with Gemini-powered artificial intelligence (AI) features, a new report claims that the company might also introduce a new subscription plan alongside it. Google Home Premium Subscription Could Bring New AI Features The details around the Google Home Premium and the AI features were spotted by 9to5Google during an Android application package (APK) breakdown of the latest Google Home app version 3.41. The information was seen in the strings of code of the application, but none of it is active currently. One of the mentions in the strings is the description of a feature that will arrive with the Google Home Premium. With this, users can reportedly "teach compatible cameras to recognise who you know." This sounds like the Familiar Faces feature in the existing Nest Aware subscription, although it might now use Gemini to track household members. The most interesting feature was from another string, where the tech giant calls the new plan a "Security that understands what it sees." This likely refers to the object and pet identification system, which was first previewed at Google I/O. Another string, likely part of Google's promotional material, reportedly says, "Keep up with what's important to you with detailed AI event descriptions, notifications, and daily summaries of what happened at home." The subscription is said to also allow the camera to call authorities in case of an emergency. As per the report, a string also mentions a Google Home Premium Advanced subscription, which is believed to replace the Nest Aware Plus plan. The existing plan offers 60 days of event video history and 10 days of 24/7 video history. It is unclear what the new plan might offer. Finally, another code snippet reportedly mentions that the new subscription plan could be bundled with Google One. As per 9to5Google, Nest Aware already comes bundled with the plan in the UK, so it is not necessarily a new development. However, it can be expanded to more regions.