The biggest smart home fails of 2025, ranked

Sometimes the smart home doesn’t seem so smart, like when a cloud outage renders your devices useless or your smart bed starts roasting you in your sleep.

We see these kinds of smart-home snafus every year, but 2025 was a tad different thanks to the arrival of generative AI assistants like Alexa+ and Google Gemini, which arrived with great fanfare but failed to truly blow our minds. 

So without further ado, we present the biggest smart home flops, fails, and foul-ups of the year, ranked in ascending order.