Device Utility

Google LLC

About this app

Use this app to add your Google, Nest, Google Nest, and partner devices to your home in the Google Home app. The Device Utility app is only for adding devices. Once you're done adding a device, you can control it with the Google Home app and delete the Device Utility from your phone.

Ratings and reviews

Utter garbage, doesn't work - if you're trying to connect to anything and it tells you to turn off wifi, go back and turn it on before you start the connection process, or it will say you can't connect to your Chromecast. This is a known issue and months old, and could easily have been fixed by now. I had to call support and get jerked around until I finally found this solution myself...

Totally worthless. If you follow its instructions you will never again be able to use your Chromecast. It insists you disable your Wi-Fi, then never re-enables it or suggests that you re-enable it. If you don't re-enable it at the right point in the process without being told to, it can never connect to the Chromecast nor can it tell you why it won't connect. Google has known about this for a year but of course they can't be bothered to fix it.

This app is an absolute failure. I've been trying to connect my Chromecast for 2 days with no success. You would think that Google would be capable of making an app that actually worked. They should have been working on this sooner, knowing that they might possibly lose the lawsuit with Sonos. Edit: After a few weeks of being unable to reconnect my Chromecast they have changed the app in some way that it's finally working. It only took me two tries this time and it was connected.

What’s new

First release of Device Utility.