{"id":144980,"date":"2025-10-25T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:52:09","slug":"shuttered-robot-vacuum-maker-neato-is-ending-cloud-services-sooner-than-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/144980\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttered robot vacuum maker Neato is ending cloud services sooner than planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Starting soon, Neato robovac owners will no longer be able to control their devices using the app. Neato Robotics, which <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/robot-vacuum-maker-neato-is-shutting-down-amid-stiff-competition-204959296.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:shut down in 2023;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shut down in 2023<\/a> due to declining sales, has notified customers that &#8220;cloud services are being phased out during Q4 2025,&#8221; according to an email obtained by <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/806246\/neato-robovac-cloud-shutdown\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Verge;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">While Neato&#8217;s parent company Vorwerk Group initially said cloud support would continue for at least five years following its closure, the email now says &#8220;cybersecurity standards, compliance obligations, and regulations have advanced in ways that make it no longer possible to safely and sustainably operate these legacy systems.&#8221; This doesn&#8217;t mean existing Neato products will be completely bricked \u2014 there&#8217;s still the option to start them manually by pressing a button \u2014 but they won&#8217;t offer all the smart home conveniences expected from a robovac that cost hundreds of dollars. Without use of the app, customers won&#8217;t be able to set cleaning schedules, remotely start the vacuums or assign No-go zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting soon, Neato robovac owners will no longer be able to control their devices using the app. Neato&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[19026,18,19,17,85613,85612,85614,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-144980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-cloud-services","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-neato-products","13":"tag-neato-robotics","14":"tag-neato-robovac-owners","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115436083140536933","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}