Google Home app may soon let you set a separate volume level for the Google Assistant

Google Home and Google Nest devices are more than just speakers. They also serve as hubs where you can communicate with the Google Assistant and control you home and have it help you throughout the day. But one longstanding issue is the fact that the volume is the same system-wide in Google Home. This means that if you’re blasting music at full volume, the Assistant will also yell at you at the same volume, and the opposite happens as well. Google might be addressing this soon.

A new setting has started to appear in the Google Home app for iOS devices which allows you to modify the Google Assistant’s volume independently of the device’s volume itself. However, the feature doesn’t seem to be functional yet: tweaking it doesn’t seem to have any effect on the Assistant’s loudness as per Android Police’s coverage, and the setting also resets to the default value after getting to the app’s home screen. Google Home devices will probably need a software update in order for this feature to work. The feature has also not rolled out yet to the Android version of the app, which suggests that the feature has not really rolled out yet.

There is also an “Auto Assistant volume” box that you can tick on and off, and this one does seem to work, albeit pretty randomly, so your mileage may vary. The most likely reason for this iOS rollout is that it was most probably an accident since it doesn’t seem to be ready for prime time yet. Nonetheless, the (finalized) feature could roll out sooner or later, probably whenever we see it on Android. So Google Home users should definitely keep an eye out for that.

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