The night has come; you’re winding down. “Hey Google, turn off all the lights” you whisper, and then regret sets in as your Google Home yells confirmation, waking everyone up. Here’s how to make Google speak quietly at night.
You may have experienced this more times than you care to admit. Everyone is asleep, and you’re ready for bed too. You tell your Google Home or Nest Hub to turn off the lights, and it yells, seemingly at the top of its digital lungs, a confirmation that it will turn off the lights. It doesn’t have to be this way.
You can either turn on Night Mode for each Google Home or Nest Hub device you own to make them speak softer and dim the lights or use grouping to prevent the devices from speaking altogether.
Enable Night Mode for a Quiet Night
If you need your Google Homes to speak softly during certain hours, Night Mode is the feature for you. You can set Night Mode to turn on and off automatically with a schedule, adjust the maximum volume, and even the maximum brightness of your Google Home’s built-in LEDs.
The downside is, you have to enable and configure Night Mode for every Google Home device you own. So if you miss one, you’ll find out the hard way the next time you use it and expect a quiet response.
To turn on Night Mode, open the Google Home app, then tap on the Google Home device you want to adjust. Then tap the gear in the top right corner.
Scroll down and tap on Night Mode.
