Like Amazon Alexa, many people use Google Nest Hub for home assistance and smart device voice control. Unlike the Amazon Echo, Google Nest Hub offers a casting feature where you can cast videos from your mobile or desktop to the Nest Hub.
This feature is quite handy, especially while playing YouTube videos. You can cast YouTube videos from the mobile directly to the Nest Hub. However, it is noticed that some strange error message is showing while casing some videos.
This Video is unavailable with restricted mode enabled Error
While playing some videos on Google Nest Hub via Casting, an error message saying “this video is unavailable with restricted mode enabled” is shown on the screen, and the video won’t play on the Nest Hub. In this article, we will check how to fix this video is unavailable with a restricted mode enabled issue on Google Nest Hub.
Fix ‘this video is unavailable with restricted mode enabled’ on Google Nest Hub
The Nest Hub video unavailable error can easily be fixed using the Google Home app. To do so, follow the below steps.
Step 1: Open the Google Home App on your mobile.
Step 2: Goto the settings by clicking the Gear icon at the bottom right corner of the Google Home app.
Step 3: Scroll down and tap on the Digital Wellbeing option under the Home Features section.
Step 4: You will see all your Google Nest devices. Tap on the device you wish to fix the issue.
Step 5: You will find an option called Filters that might be enabled by default. Unselect the Filters option to disable it.
Done; now the filters are disabled, and the videos will play without issues. You won’t see the ‘this video is unavailable with restricted mode enabled’ error message anymore while casing videos.
Why this video is unavailable with restricted mode enabled error occurs
The issue happens mainly while playing live video content. By default, Google Nest Hub filters live videos and other content, so you can’t cast live videos from your mobile to Google Nest Hub. You won’t face any issues playing such videos by disabling the filters.
