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Apr 10, 2025

This hub is wildly easy to set up. The touchscreen interacts with a Google Home app on your phone, guiding you through the process without you really needing to do much. Having said that, we found getting it to display photos a bit of a head-scratcher at first.

Firstly, you need to ensure you have some photo albums set up in the Google Photos app, then you let Google Home know which of those albums to display on your screen. Once this is done, it sends the photos to be the background on your Google Nest hub max screen. Got it?

The screen itself is HD and is capable of true-to-life colours, and our images looked pin-sharp. We were very impressed. This screen also offers voice assistance; you can watch Netflix and YouTube on it; control your smart home, and more. You might enjoy that the screen also recognises your face, and displays things it thinks you’ll be interested in – creepy or amazing? You decide.

If you’re already integrated into the Google ecosystem, this will fit neatly into your life and make the most of the services you’re already using.