---
module: devices.device-groups
title: Device Groups
tab: Customer
order: 10
audience: customer
---

Device Groups let you organize your devices into named collections — for example "Downtown ATMs" or a single branch — so you can view and manage them together instead of one at a time.

## 👥 What you can do here
- **Create a group** — click **+ New Group** to open the form.
- **Assign devices** to a group and change which devices belong to it.
- **Assign a hardware profile** to every device in a group at once.
- **Set a default group** so your device lists open pre-filtered to it.
- **Edit** a group's name, description, color, or membership.
- **Delete** a group you no longer need.

## ➕ Create a group
1. Click **+ New Group** in the toolbar.
2. Enter a **Name** (required) and an optional **Description**.
3. Optionally pick an **Institution** — choosing one automatically pre-selects all of that institution's devices for the group.
4. Pick a **Color** from the preset swatches, or choose a custom one — this color labels the group in lists.
5. Add devices using the two-panel picker: highlight devices in **Available**, use the arrows to move them to **Assigned**, and use the **Filter ATMs** box to search by device ID or location.
6. Click **Create Group**.

## 🔧 Managing a group
Each row in the table has quick actions:

1. **Assign Devices** — open the two-panel picker to add or remove devices, then **Save Assignment**.
2. **Assign Profile** — choose a hardware profile to apply to every device in the group; HiveIQ pushes the update out to those devices for you.
3. **Edit** — change the group's name, description, institution, color, or membership.
4. **Delete** — remove the group. Your devices are not deleted; only the grouping goes away.

## ⭐ Setting a default
- Click **Set Default** on a group to make your device views open filtered to it.
- Click **✕ Clear** on the current default to go back to showing all devices.

## 📋 What you're looking at
The groups table shows:

- **Name** — the group's label, with its color shown as a strip on the left.
- **Description** — your optional note about the group.
- **Institution** — the institution the group is tied to, or **All** if it spans everything.
- **ATMs** — how many devices are currently in the group.
- **Default** — whether this group is your default view.

> Removing a device from a group — or deleting the group — never removes the device itself. Groups are just a way to organize your fleet.
