Mill reset Google Nest Wifi or Google Wifi devices

If you mill reset your Google Nest Wifi or Google Wifi devices, information technology’ll erase all current settings and data. Deleted data is gone forever. After you manufacturing plant reset a device, you lot’ll have to gear up up your router and bespeak(s) again.

Important:
If you use the Google Wifi app to manage your devices and factory reset your router or points, you’ll need to use the Google Home app when you gear up them upwardly again. Learn more about changes to the Google Wifi app.

You might perform a manufacturing plant reset when you want to:

  • Give your router or betoken to someone else
  • Render the device
  • Erase all information from your router or point
  • Starting time fresh and set upwards your router or point(s) from scratch

Note:
A factory reset tin can take several minutes and will interrupt your internet access. Subsequently reset, you’ll need to set up your devices again.

Ways to factory reset your device

You can factory reset your device with the:
Google Habitation app Google Wifi app Mill reset button on your device
Compatible devices Devices set in the Google Home app Devices ready in the Google Wifi app Any Wifi device
When to utilise this method Recommended: Utilize the app factory reset whenever possible. Your devices aren’t accessible in the app.
Results
  • Your router or bespeak(s) will return to the factory default.
  • Data from your router or Wifi point(s) and the Google Home or Google Wifi apps, including electric current settings and any information used for Cloud services, volition be erased.
  • Your router or indicate(south) will as well be removed from your Google Business relationship immediately.
  • Your router or bespeak(southward) will return to the factory default.
  • This will delete information from your router or betoken(southward), but not your app or cloud.
  • Your device and network will still announced in the app.
  • After 6 months, Google will automatically delete the app information and deject data. The next time you plug in your device, yous’ll have to perform the setup procedure once more.
    • Note: Data deletion also happens after your device is powered off or disconnected from the internet for vi months.

Why did my device factory reset itself?

If your Google Wifi or Nest Wifi device is powered off or disconnected from the cyberspace for 6 months, it’ll mill reset itself the next fourth dimension it connects to the internet, and Google volition automatically delete the app data and cloud data.

Factory reset your devices with the Google Dwelling app

Mill reset your router and all points

Factory reset your point

Factory reset your devices with the Google Wifi app

Factory reset your primary point and all other points

If you lot reset your Google Wifi points from the Wifi app, it’ll delete all settings and data from your Wifi points, Cloud services, and the Google Wifi app. It’ll also remove your Wifi indicate(s) from your Google Business relationship and network from the Google Wifi app.

Important:
If you use the Google Wifi app to manage your devices and manufactory reset your router or points, you lot’ll need to use the Google Dwelling app when you set them up over again. Learn more near changes to the Google Wifi app.

If yous’ve migrated your Google Wifi network to the Google Dwelling house app, follow the Google Domicile app instructions instead:

  1. Open up the Google Wifi app
    .
  2. Tap the Settings and actions tab


    Network & full general.
  3. Under “Network,” tap
    Wifi indicate(s).
  4. Tap
    Mill Reset. On the next screen, tap
    Manufacturing plant Reset
    to ostend.
  5. The Wifi signal(s) will flash blue, then plow solid blueish. This process can take upward to 10 minutes. Yous won’t be able to add your Wifi point(s) to a new network until the reset is complete.
  6. Once complete, the app will evidence “Reset is complete,” and your Google Wifi signal(s) will slowly pulse blueish to indicate it’s ready for setup.
  7. To ready your betoken(south) once more, follow the steps to set upwards Google Wifi in the Google Home app.

Factory reset a single Wifi point

Factory reset your router or point with the factory reset push button on your device

Nest Wifi router
Google Nest Wifi router

The factory reset push button is located on the lesser of the router. Check for a circle etched into the bottom then follow the instructions below:

  1. Printing and hold the factory reset button for 10 seconds. The low-cal volition flash yellow, then plough solid xanthous. When the light is solid yellow, release the push button.
  2. The reset process will start, which can take up to 10 minutes. Don’t unplug the power string during this process.
  3. When factory reset is complete, the light on your router will pulse white.
  4. Later the device has been reset, the device will nevertheless appear in the Google Dwelling app. To remove the device, follow the instructions for app manufactory reset. To ready again, you’ll demand to create a new network, so readd whatsoever points again.

Note: If y’all hold the button for too long (>15 seconds), the device will start flashing yellow and won’t manufactory reset. In this case, unplug the ability cord from the device, exit it unplugged for i minute, and then plug the power string back in and attempt again.

The hardware button factory reset will delete all electric current settings and data from your device. However, all data Google has collected and analyzed for Cloud services will remain. Later on half dozen months, Google will automatically delete this Cloud data. You tin can always remove this information by performing a factory reset from the Google Home app, even on the offline network.

Nest Wifi point
Google Nest Wifi point

The factory reset push button is located on the bottom of the point. Check for a circumvolve etched into the bottom, then follow the instructions below:

  1. Press and hold the factory reset button on your point.
  2. After virtually 5 seconds, your device will begin the factory reset process. Continue to hold the button for about x seconds, until there’s a audio confirming the device is resetting.
  3. Afterward the device has been reset, the device volition even so appear in the Google Home app. To remove the device and your previous network, follow the instructions for app factory reset.

The hardware button mill reset will delete all current settings and data from your device. Notwithstanding, all data Google has nerveless and analyzed for Cloud services will remain. Later on half-dozen months, Google will automatically delete this Deject data. You can always remove this information by performing a factory reset from the Google Abode app.

Google Wifi point
Google Wifi point

Important:
If you use the Google Wifi app to manage your devices and manufacturing plant reset your router or points, you lot’ll need to use the Google Dwelling house app when y’all ready them upward again. Learn more nigh changes to the Google Wifi app.

The manufacturing plant reset push button is a circle etched into either the lesser or dorsum of the device.

  1. Press and hold the factory reset button for 10 seconds. The calorie-free volition flash orange, then plow solid blue. When the light is solid blue, release the push button.
  2. The reset process volition beginning, which tin take upwards to 10 minutes. Don’t unplug the power cord during this procedure.
  3. When the manufacturing plant reset is complete, the light will modify from solid blue to pulsing blue to bespeak information technology’s ready for setup.
  4. After the device has been reset, the device will still appear in the Google Home or Google Wifi app. To remove the device and your previous network, follow the instructions for app factory reset.

If the firmware on your Google Wifi point is

earlier than 13729.57.27:

  1. Unplug your bespeak from the power source.
  2. Printing, then hold the factory reset button on the device. While holding down the push, plug the power cable back in. Continue pressing the button for nigh 10 seconds. Your point will flash white, so bluish. When it flashes blue, you can release the button.
  3. The point volition continue flashing bluish for about 45 seconds, and so turn solid blue. This procedure tin can take up to x minutes.
  4. Wait up to 10 minutes for the device to fully reset.
  5. Once complete, your indicate will pulse blue to indicate it’s set up for setup.
  6. Later on the device has been reset, the device will however appear in the Google Home or Google Wifi app. To remove the device and your previous network, follow the instructions for app factory reset.
  7. If you have reset your primary betoken (router), you’ll demand to fix a new network and add whatever points again using the Google Habitation app.

Note: If you agree the push button for too long (>15 seconds), the device will start flashing orangish and won’t manufactory reset. In this instance, unplug and try again.

The hardware button factory reset will delete all current settings and data from your device. However, all data Google has collected and analyzed for Cloud services will remain. After 6 months, Google will automatically delete this Deject data. You can always remove this data by performing a factory reset from the Google Home or Google Wifi app.

OnHub device
OnHub

  1. Unplug your OnHub from the power source.
  2. Find the mill reset push.
    • OnHub from TP-Link:
      Twist the outer beat counterclockwise, then lift. The manufactory reset button is located above the power port.
    • OnHub from ASUS:
      The factory reset button is located above the USB port on the back of the device.
  3. Employ the end of a paper prune to press, and so concur the manufacturing plant reset push. While belongings downward the button, plug the power cable dorsum in. Keep to printing the factory reset push for most 10 seconds.
  4. The reset process will start, which tin take upwardly to 10 minutes. During this process, don’t remove the OnHub from the power source.
  5. When complete, your OnHub will pulse blue.
  6. After the device has been reset, the device volition still appear in the Google Home app or Google Wifi app. To remove the device and your previous network, follow the instructions for app factory reset.
  7. To set your OnHub again, follow the steps to ready your device in the Google Home app.

Notation:
If you hold the push button for also long (>xv seconds), the device will start flashing red and won’t manufacturing plant reset. In this case, unplug and try over again.

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