The “Call Home” button — a shortcut in the Google Home app that let you ring your smart display from anywhere — has disappeared without warning.

The ‘Call Home’ feature in the Google Home app was introduced in 2019, and it allowed Google Duo to send voice and video calls directly to its smart displays. Video calls got support first, meaning ...

You can still call a smart display through Google Meet, but it's more complicated than the previous Call Home system. You'll need to add an account to Google Meet on the smart display, meaning it's ...

Google has removed its longstanding “Call Home” feature from the Google Home app in recent updates, breaking support for starting calls directly to devices such as the Nest Hub Max. Through the latest ...

To add some context, Google Home added support for the feature in 2019. Call Home used Google Duo to send voice/video calls directly to smart displays such as the Nest Hub and the previously mentioned ...