Where Does Nest Doorbell Store Videos?
Where the Google Home app keeps Nest doorbell video on Android and iPhone, plus cloud roles. Exact folders are covered below.
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Nest doorbells upload to Google cloud under plan. The Google Home app shows timeline, live view, and familiar faces from your account home. Local files are login, cache, and manual saves.
Manual saves land in Photos or gallery. Devices follow your Google home structure. Retention decides history depth. Exact cache names vary by Home app builds. For keeps, download events before expiry. Reinstalls never touch doorbell firmware or cloud video within retention. Screenshots of settings help when support asks for reproduction steps later.
Where Nest Doorbell stores this, by platform
/sdcard/DCIM/Nest
Events live in Google cloud under Nest Aware. Manual saves land in the gallery. Devices follow your Home structure. Download before retention expiry.
Photos/Nest (manual saves, events in cloud)
Videos live in the Home container plus cloud. Manual saves go to Photos. Sign in to restore homes and timelines within retention.
Frequently asked questions
Where are my Nest doorbell recordings?
In Google cloud with a Nest Aware plan for event video, and in the phone gallery for manual saves. Download events from history, then copy to a PC. Without a plan only live view plus short trials remain. Check the home name when timelines look empty.
Does Nest back up video automatically?
Yes, when the plan covers the camera. The phone holds login and timeline cache. Event videos stream from cloud. Manual clips save to the gallery. Reinstalls restore the same timeline after sign in while dates stay in retention.
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