Google Home now lowers the volume of casting audio when using Google Assistant

Table of Content

• Control Google Nest devices
• How to change the volume on a Nest Mini?
• Stop Others from Controlling Your Speaker
• How to adjust when Night Mode is enabled
• Check Volume Under Routines

Additional controls to manage the volume of multiple devices are available on your display.Learn more about multi-room controls. It doesn't work when casting using a TV or speaker with Chromecast built in and running a firmware version older than 1.25. If your TV or speakers are just loud enough, Google Home can have trouble hearing your commands. Sometimes Google Home can't hear you when you're casting to a Chromecast or speaker.

In the last 4 years I kept playing all my assistant devices at 20% volume, using Spotify. Follow these steps to reset the device through the Home app. On the newer Mini models, switch OFF the mic and then press and hold the Center button until the device turns OFF and back ON again. If done right, the music will stop playing on the devices. With this feature, you can connect multiple Nest/Home devices together and play media on them.

Control Google Nest devices

Select the devices that you want to add to the group. Speaker groups are Google's way of employing multiple speaker connectivity for a shared listening experience. Click on the Settings icon and then select Audio.

All you have to do is to unplug the device for a few seconds or minutes and then press and hold the power button or the center button for a few seconds. That might sound weird to you, but some Google Home users have reported that changing the location of the smart speaker fixed the issue for them. The issue can happen on any Google Home device such as Google Home Mini, Nest, etc. For the sake of convenience, we are using the term Google Home across this post. But what could be the reason behind Google Home increasing the volume?

How to change the volume on a Nest Mini?

There are several ways to control the volume of the Google Assistant, your media, timers, and alarms on Google Nest or Home devices. With the feature disabled, when you speak to Google Home, the volume of Chromecast devices will remain the same like it always has. Another major issue with the Nest/Home devices is with music playback. At least some of these fixes apply to the said issue too. To Adjust or Turn OFF this option, follow these steps on the Home app.

Use the silent button in the Google Home notification in any mobile devices in the same network, as shown below. This will silence Google Home, but not pause the playing. You can use the button in the notification to resume the volume.

Stop Others from Controlling Your Speaker

We hope the above solutions would have stopped Google Home speaker from changing the volume automatically. If it still continues, update the Google Home app on your phone. And if the issue arises only when you listen to music via third-party apps such as Spotify, then update those apps too. Sometimes, it’s a bug in apps, and updating them would fix the issue. If your Google Home speaker increases the volume only for alarms and timers, it’s because there is a separate setting to control their volume. The setting is independent of your normal Google Home volume.

Select the Device Information option and then select WiFi. Once the traffic exceeds the threshold, the network becomes laggy with high latency and slower speeds. Unstable speeds invariably lead to increased latency and buffering issues. A probable remedy to such problems is to refresh the network. Tap on the "X" icon next to the name of the device you want to unpair. On the Home app, click and open your Nest/Home device.

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Then, follow these steps on the Home app. Assuming that you do know how to set up a Bluetooth connection on the Nest/Home device, follow these steps on the Home app to reset the Bluetooth connection. Actually the volume of Google assistant voice follows the device settings.

The volume of Google Home smart speakers can be changed in multiple ways. Those include touch controls, voice commands, and within the Google Home app. But what if you didn’t use any of those methods, and yet Google Home volume changes automatically?

How to adjust when Night Mode is enabled

Use voice command of “Hey Google, silent“. You can use voice command of “Hey Google, continue” to resume the playing. You can also use Google Home app on any mobile device to change the volume for Google Home. On PC, you can change the volume in Google Cast extension.

To lower the maximum volume of Assistant at night, drag the slider to the left. When you cast content on a Chromecast built-in speaker or TV, or Android TV that runs with Chromecast firmware version older than 1.25. Learn how to check your firmware version.