The company is making changes at a time when more people than ever are using Internet-connected devices at home during the covid-19 pandemic.

‘we believe these changes have the potential to help make it easier for communities to keep up with school, work, and everything in between’.

If you’re in the US and your nest’s camera quality and bandwidth settings are higher than the default, Google will be rolling those settings back to the default. The company says no other settings on your nest camera will change.

You can revert your quality and bandwidth settings back to the way you had them before, according to Google. That might be something you want to do if you actively rely on a nest camera to keep track of what’s going on around your home.

Google plans to roll the settings back to the way you had them before. Network networks are less inundated with traffic, Google says.

Google is reducing the rotation interval and the resolution of photos in these slideshows globally, the company says. Google is cutting the rotation intervals and resolution of images in those slideshows globally.