A Guide To Deleting Nest Cam Footage.

Nest company produces high-quality cameras that can help you make your house safer, also deterring or catching any suspicious person who may approach your property.

The Nest camera is powered by a battery that can last from 3 to 7 month depending on the usage and provide a full HD video quality that allows you to see the people’s faces clearly.

It also gives you the ability to speak with the person in front of your house and much more, all these characteristics make the nest cam one of the best security devices on the market.

The videos recorded by these cameras are stored in the cloud and you can watch them by going to the video history on your smartphone, tablet, or your computer. In this article, we’re going to show you how to delete the Nest camera footage.

How to delete Nest video clips and snapshots?

You can manage this cam through the Nest app or the Home app so you can use one of these two apps to delete the footage, so in order to do that you can follow the next steps:

1. Open the Nest app and sign in to your account (go to home.nest.com if you’re on a computer).
2. Then select the cam that has the video history you want to delete.
3. Select settings then tap on “delete video history”.
4. Finally tap the confirmation button to delete the video history.

By doing all of these steps, all of your saved clips and snapshots will be deleted and you won’t be able to access them again.

So make sure to create clips that you want to keep and download to your smartphone, or computer.

How footage will be automatically deleted?

Even if you don’t delete your recorded videos and clips manually your camera will not keep them forever and will delete them after a period of time. and let me show you how it does that:

• Rolling video history: If you’re subscribed to “Nest aware” your camera will keep the footage for 30 days and if you’re subscribed to “Nest aware plus” your history will be deleted after 60 days.
  
  And if you don’t have a subscription your clips and snapshots will be kept for only 3 hours, I don’t recommend using the Nest cam without a subscription plan.
  
• Removing a camera from the Nest app or canceling a subscription: If you delete your Nest cam from its own app all your recorded footage will be automatically deleted, the same thing happens when you cancel your Nest aware subscription.
  

• Deleting your Nest account: Also when you delete your Nest account all your recorded videos will be deleted automatically.
  
  According to Google if you purchased Nest Aware directly from Nest, deleting your account will cancel your Nest Aware subscription at the same time, so your video history will be deleted and you’ll not be able to record until you open a new account.
  
• Factory reset: When resetting your Nest camera all your recorded clips and snapshots will be deleted so if you want to save any video footage, before you factory reset create video clips or timelapses and download the files to your phone or computer.
  
  Google doesn’t recommend factory reset as a troubleshooting method as it will erase all your video history including important recordings.

How to save and download video clips from Nest?

I assume that you want to keep some recorded videos on your smartphone when deleting your history and it’s an important step to do because you may have some important clips that include a suspicious person in front of your house and you want to keep this video.

As we said before you can download these clips on your smartphone, tablet, or computer ( you can save Up to 1 hour per clip on the computer and 2 minutes and 30 seconds per clip on your phone), and here is how to do it:

On computer:

1. Go to home.nest.com
2. Choose your Nest cam.
3. Select Clips in the lower right corner of the screen.
4. Tap “Create Clip”.
5. Sliders will appear on your timeline. Drag them forward or backward to select the start and end times for your clip.
6. Add a name for your clip and tap Save.

On your phone or tablet:

1. Go to the Nest app.
2. Select your camera.
3. Go to your camera history.
4. As the clip plays, press and hold New Clip to start the clip and release to end.
5. Then tap “Save” to download the clip.

Download from the Home app:

1. Open the Home app.
2. Choose your Nest camera.
3. Select History near the bottom of the screen.
4. Tap “Full history” for a list of events.
5. Select the event you want to save.
6. Tap Event details.
7. Then tap Download near the top of the screen to save the video clip to your phone.

How to access Nest video history?

The Nest cam will save snapshots and clips on the cloud and if you want to watch them you need to go to History, so follow the next instructions if you want to access your video history:

In the Nest app:

1. Open the Nest app.
2. Select your camera.
3. Your camera’s video history will appear below the live video stream.

In the Home app:

1. Open the Home app.
2. On the home screen, select your camera.
3. Tap History, Near the bottom of the screen.

How do Nest cameras store the recorded video?

Contrary to other cameras such as Arlo, Eufy, or Wyze that have the possibility to store video locally on a micro SD card Nest cam will upload and save your recorded clips only on the cloud.

keeping them for a long time requires you a subscription that starts at 6$ a month or 60$ a year.

The camera needs to be connected to your home network and the Nest service, you have complete freedom to access the recorded video from your phone, tablet, or computer from everywhere and whenever you want.

According to Google, Nest Cam (battery) will continue to record when the power or internet goes down by saving events to its internal memory, then upload these videos to the cloud when the power and the internet go back.

The Nest Cam (wired) will also continue to record video when there’s no internet connection then upload them to the cloud when the internet is back, you can read more about local video storage in this article.

How to stop the Nest cam from recording footage?

You can turn off video history for your camera at any time in the Home app, and when you turn off your history all your recorded videos will be deleted and you can’t access them again.

Follow the next steps in order to stop your camera from recording footage:

1. Go to the Home app on your mobile or tablet.
2. Choose your camera.
3. Tap on the gear icon, then video.
4. Click on “Video History”.
5. Select “No video history” to turn off camera history.

Conclusion.

Nest cameras are well known for their quality and knowing how to delete the footage and save clips and snapshots on your mobile is important and we hope we’ve helped you get what you want in this article.