Google has rolled out a significant update to its Home app, expanding support for European-style mortise locks, improving camera streaming quality, and refining user interface features, signalling a focus on broader device compatibility and user experience improvements.
Google is broadening the smart-lock capabilities in its Home app, adding better support for European-style mortise locks and making their status easier to read. According to Google’s release notes on the Home and Nest Help forum, the app can now handle locks with separate bolt and latch controls, and it will show clearer states such as “Unlocked and latched”. The update is part of a wider round of fixes and refinements to the smart-home platform.
The same release also addresses a camera bug that had limited live video streams to 360p. Google says the fix should restore higher-quality playback for users checking Nest cameras in real time. The company is also adding a more explicit warning when a paid Google Home subscription payment fails, giving users a chance to update billing details before losing camera history or other premium features.
Other changes are more incremental but still practical. Google says temperature units now stay consistent across the app, voice commands and Nest devices, with users able to choose Celsius or Fahrenheit in settings. On iPhone and iPad, the company has also fixed an issue that rounded half-degree thermostat readings down to whole numbers, reduced camera-related crashes and kept playback controls visible when a camera is offline or struggling to connect.
The latest Home notes fit a pattern of steady iteration. Google’s support pages for recent releases show continuing work on camera playback, performance and support for more Matter devices, while Android Central reported that version 4.1 also widened access to the “Ask Home” feature. For users, the immediate effect of this round is simpler: broader lock compatibility, fewer camera glitches and clearer app behaviour.
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