Why Does My Nest Thermostat Keep Changing the Temperature by Itself
- Auto-Schedule learning your patterns
- Home/Away Assist changing to Eco temps
- Scheduled temperature changes active
Problem Description
Your Nest thermostat adjusts the temperature without anyone touching it, often at inconvenient times.
Symptoms
- Temperature changes when no one touched it
- Thermostat shows different temp than you set
- House too cold in morning or evening
- Leaf icon appears when temp changes
- Temperature drops when you leave home
Recognize these? Here's what usually causes it.
Common Causes
- Auto-Schedule learning your patterns
- Home/Away Assist changing to Eco temps
- Scheduled temperature changes active
- Sunblock feature compensating for heat
- Family member adjusting from phone
Most fixes happen in the first 3 steps.
Disabling all smart features turns your Nest into a basic programmable thermostat.
Step-by-Step Solution
Check the Schedule
Open the Nest app and tap your thermostat then Schedule. Review and delete any unwanted scheduled changes.
Disable Auto-Schedule
Go to Settings then Auto-Schedule and turn it Off.
Adjust Home/Away Assist
Go to Settings then Home/Away Assist and adjust Eco temperatures to comfortable levels.
Review Other Smart Features
Check Settings for Sunblock and True Radiant features that may cause adjustments.
Check Family Sharing
Go to Settings then Family to see who has access to adjust temperature.
Quick Solutions
Still having issues? This is usually the deeper cause below.
Schedules that skip randomly are usually a daylight-saving holdover — delete and recreate the schedule to clear the corrupted entry.
After disabling learning features, manually set your preferred schedule.
Thermostat issues that keep returning are often caused by stale backup-battery memory holding old settings across power cycles without the user realising.
- Auto-Schedule learning your patterns
- Home/Away Assist changing to Eco temps
- Scheduled temperature changes active
- Sunblock feature compensating for heat
- Family member adjusting from phone
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