{
  "id": 14484206,
  "title": "Google Home bug turns your smart home device list into a mess",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/google-home-bug-turns-your-smart-home-device-list-into-a-mess",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-14T15:40:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Google",
    "slug": "9to5google",
    "url": "https://9to5google.com/2026/10/14/google-home-bug-turns-your-smart-home-device-list-into-a-mess/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A bug in the Google Home app has led to a messy display of device lists for certain users, with no clear solution available at the moment. For the past week, a number of users have encountered an issue in the Google Home app that turns the device list into a cluttered mess. The intended functionality of the app's \"All Devices\" page is to group linked devices according to their assigned rooms, and display any unassigned devices in a generic \"Linked to you\" section. However, users have reported that for roughly a week, the Google Home app has been listing all devices under the \"Linked to you\" section, regardless of whether they are assigned to a room or not. This results in excessive clutter and makes it difficult to identify devices that have not yet been assigned to rooms. It is likely a bug rather than an intentional change, but there appears to be no way to resolve the issue as the devices still show their assigned room groupings in the settings menu. Google has only acknowledged the problem by suggesting affected users contact support. Given that new updates to the Google Home app typically come out every few weeks, it is possible that a patch will resolve this issue in the near future. Please share your experience with this problem in the comments below.",
  "summary": "A bug in the Google Home app has left device lists messy for some users, with no obvious way to fix it for the time being. more…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}