How to Add Multiple Users to Your Google Home Device

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Find out about the latest update to the Google Home platform and the totally redesigned, more personalized Google Home app. Now, when any user requests a particular song, Google will identify the user and use their account’s preferences and services to serve up songs or videos. You'll be able to turn the lights on and off, control media volume and playback, adjust the temperature, and more. On the note of smart lights, for systems like Philips Hue, home members will see Hue bulbs, but not Hue scenes.

Best of all, you can program your Nest speakers to recognize individual users’ voices, thanks to its neural network voice recognition function. New users will have to download the Google Home app on their devices to connect their music accounts and customize their preferences. Using the app, they can tweak their preferred news sources, calendar updates, and more. Speakers have always been a really nice experience. Although, prior one of the shortcoming of this smart speaker, it was unable to identify varieties of voices and also render personalized results for them. As a result, if two users want to share the same device, they’d have to share their music playlists, and many more.

Add new users or email addresses

When someone sends a request to join your home, you should receive an email with the invite request and a notification on your mobile device. The person you invite should receive an email with instructions. Choose a suggested room name or scroll to the bottom and tap Add a custom roomenter the room nametap Save. If asked, tap the room you want to move the device to Next. Select a new home from the drop-down.

The Google Home app will walk you through the steps to set up your Google Nest or Home speaker or display. Once more than one user is set up on a Google Home speaker, nothing needs to be done to switch between accounts, since Assistant has learned each of the users' voices. If you don't see the notification, tap the devices button in the top right corner.

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Scroll down and tap Turn on to allow this information, or No Thanks. You can get more in-depth answers and interactions by allowing Google Assistant access to device information and audio activity. Open the Google Home app on the invitee's phone. The person to whom you send the email will need to follow the instructions to properly connect, but this is all you need to do on your end. If you live in a home with multiple family members or roommates, that means you can ask Google Home for your specific workout playlist, instead of your brother’s (or your dad’s). How can you set up this magical function?

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You can prevent them from accessing your personal information while still letting them issue voice commands thanks to Google Home’s guest mode. From Spotify, Pandora, and Google Play Music services. You can also use the premium versions of Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, YouTube Red, and Google Play Music to request whatever tunes you’d like. Google’s YouTube Red and Google Play Music services should work automatically, while Deezer, Spotify, and Pandora users will have to go through a few extra steps.

In your list of devices, tap the options button in the top right of your Google Home icon and select Guest Mode, where you can toggle the feature on and off. Guests can still send content using Google’s Cast functionality, though they’ll need to be on a Wi-Fi network. Select “Nearby Device” when attempting to cast content, and look for the voice assistant, which will attempt to pair with your phone via audio cues or a 4-digit pin. To connect your streaming account , you’ll have to drill down into your Google Home profile settings. In the menu, select Account Preferences, then scroll down to “Music” located in the Services section. Select the Link option for your streaming service of choice, and sign in with their respective accounts.

Google Assistant speakers like the Google Nest line have allowed multiple users for a while now, but the methods for linking doing so doubled this fall, and here's how both of them work. Assistant devices such as speakers and displays, including those set up by the removed member, should remain in your home. These devices are no longer linked to the home member you removed. The Google Home app will automatically detect any connected devices, and you can simply select the device you want to add as a shared device. Just select your Google Home device, and tap on “Continue”. Once you are done with this, the Google app will automatically detect any connected devices, and you can select the device you want to add just like a shared device.

Letting someone control Google Home with their voice is not the same as adding their account. The process to do this is a bit different. You can repeat the above process to link someone else’s voice to your Google Home app and devices. This won’t override your own voice, unless you unlink it first. That’s all there is to adding someone as a home member in Google Home. Once added, that person will be able to interact with everything in the house.

Despite claims to the contrary, the majority of users of the Google Home app and those who have access to the public preview version continue to experience this issue. Jill Duffy is a writer covering technology and personal productivity. She writes most often about software, fitness gadgets, and smart home devices. Her work has appeared in PCMag, BBC, FastCompany, Vogue India, The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, and other publications. Additionally, if your device’s multi-user functionality mistakes a recording of your voice or someone else's voice as you, your device may convey your information to that user.

Tell us all about it in the comments section below. Tap the Plus icon located in the upper right corner of the screen. Tap on the Account icon in the top right corner of the screen. While it’s less likely you’ll need this feature, you can remove home members as well.