Google Home Tutorials

Six 'Google Home Tutorials' stories November 2017 - June 2018

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Own a Google Home? Find tips, tricks, and tutorials for your smart speaker here!

How to enable Google Home’s Continued Conversation

Justin Duino Jun 21 2018 - 6:00 am PT

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Continued Conversations is a new Google Home feature that allows users to ask the Google Assistant follow-up questions without having to repeatedly say the “Ok/Hey Google” hotword. Unfortunately, new and old Google Home users alike will need to manually turn Continued Conversations on for the feature to work. Here’s how.

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How to factory reset your Google Home, Mini, & Max

Justin Duino Apr 11 2018 - 1:43 am PT

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Because so much of the Google Home setup process and user experience is through the Home app, it seems logical that the option to factory reset the smart speakers would also be within the application. Oddly enough, it isn’t, and to wipe your devices requires you to press and hold physical buttons on each of the speakers…

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How to display visual responses from Google Home on your TV w/ Chromecast

Justin Duino Feb 7 2018 - 12:29 pm PT

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As Google Home devices and Assistant-powered speakers don’t have displays, it has been impossible up until this point to see information delivered by the smart devices. Thanks to a new feature first introduced at I/O 17, you can now ask your Home to show search results on your television with a Chromecast plugged in. Here’s how…

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How to listen to white noise using Google Home

Justin Duino Feb 5 2018 - 11:34 am PT

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Sometimes it’s hard to fall asleep in a silent room. Thankfully, if you have a Google Home nearby, you can ask it to play white noise. Here’s how to not only have your Home play background noise but also a list of all of the different types of white noise you can fall to sleep to…

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How to wake up to your favorite music using Google Home

Justin Duino Jan 31 2018 - 9:08 pm PT

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Do you use your Google Home as a bedside alarm clock? Do you wish you could be woken up by a specific song instead of an annoying alarm? Well, it’s possible and here’s how…

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How to delete all audio recordings captured by your Google Home

Justin Duino Nov 24 2017 - 11:25 am PT

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Depending on your personal opinion, you may think the fact that Google stores all audio recordings from Home as either awesome or extremely weird. Either way, you might one day want to delete all of those recordings. Thankfully, Google makes it extremely easy to do so right from the “My Activity” interface…

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