How to Keep Your Google Home Quieter at Night

Do you want to make your Google Home speak gently at night? If yes, then you have come to the right place. Google Home is no doubt one of the best smart AI-enabled speakers around the globe. However, when the night comes, it may speak out with its standard volume, which is loud enough to irritate you at night. 

Suppose the night has come, and you are getting sleepy, you just calmly tell Google Home to turn off all lights in your house, but it shouts out loud for confirmation, disturbing everyone in your home. Your wife tells you to throw it away from your home after getting disappointed by its annoying loud sound.

You need to understand that it is just a machine and will do everything that you tell it to. If you have not done anything to make Google Home’s volume lower at night, then it is not its fault. You need to tell it that you want it to be quieter at night. However, this could be tricky if you don’t possess prior knowledge about it.

Worry not, we are here to help! In this article, we are about to show you a simple way to make your Google Home smart speaker silent at night. 

Let’s get in…

Solution 1: Turning On Night Mode on Google Home

If you want your Google Home to keep calm and speak gently during night hours, night mode is the one-stop solution. This night mode can be adjusted according to your sleep time, and you can decide when it turns on and turn off automatically.

You need to schedule it as per your desire and requirement. You will also be able to tell Google Home about the amount of volume you want at night as per desire. This is, without any doubt, the best way to make your Google Home silent at night. 

Here’s how to set up Night Mode on Google Home Smart Speaker:

Keep in mind that if you have more than one Google Home in your home, you will need to enable and set up this night mode in every single speaker one by one. There is no way to enable night mode on all Google Home devices at once, and you will have to do it manually, which is not that hard.

Here’s how to enable Night Mode on Google Home to make it quieter in the night:

1.      First and foremost, on your smartphone that is linked to your smart speaker, launch the Google Home app.

2.      Then, select the device on which you want to enable the Night Mode.

3.      If you want to enable it on all devices, you have to enable this mode on all of your devices.

4.      One tap on any Google Home speaker in the app, press on the Settings icon located on the upper-right side.

5.      Scroll downwards and find Night Mode.

6.      Then click on that.

7.      Now there is a toggle switch that has to be pressed in order to enable Night Mode.

8.      Next, set the duration for the Night Mode using the “Night mode is active” section.

9.      Adjust the volume of Google Home during the night hours using the slider. 

10.  Select all weekdays so that night mode will work every night. Obviously, you will go to sleep every night, no matter if it’s the weekend or not.

11.  Once that is done, your night mode is ready to do the job every night. You can also tweak the settings of Google Home Night Mode anytime you wish. If your Google Home has a LED light on the top, you can also decrease it via the LED dimming slider.

From now on, you won’t hear the louder voice from Google Home, and even if you ask it something to do, it will speak out very softly so that no one freaks out.

Solution 2: Grouping in Rooms

Another solution to make Google Home speak calmly in the night is to group your Google Home or Google Nest Hub and in the room where your smart lights are installed. So when you ask Google Home to kill the lights in the same room where your smart speaker is, it will confirm and reply gently. In this setup, it will not shout loud to wake up everyone in your house.

Not only that, when you have the Google Home in the same room where smart light is installed, but you can also ask “Ok Google, turn off the lights” rather than saying “turn off the living room lights.” It will allow you to use fewer words while commanding it to turn off the lights.

All you need to make sure is that your all smart lights are grouped. This will allow you to kill the lights of your all house in single voice command.

However, if the smart lights on your house are not grouped, then follow the below instructions to group them:

1.      Launch the Google Home app on your smartphone that is linked to your Google Home speaker.

2.      Then choose the appliances that you want to add to your room. 

3.      After that, go to Add to a room button.

4.      Follow the on-screen instructions to add the light to a group of your room.

Make sure to group all devices that you want to turn off with a command in the night using the same method as mentioned above. Also, add other Google Homes to this group.

Now you will be able to ask Google to turn off these all devices before lying on your bed, and Google Home will not shout this time.

Conclusion

In this article, you learned that there are mainly two ways to make your Google Home quieter at night- the first method is simple as you have to enable the night mode only. This is indeed the best way to make your Google Home speak gently at night so that everybody can enjoy the silent night.

The other method is also not that hard at all once the initial grouping of your smart light is done. After that, it becomes easy to say, “Hey Google, turn off the lights.” 

That’s it, thanks for coming here!

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