It is annoying and frustrating to use a smart speaker at night and it responds to you as if you were in broad daylight. That is, with a volume so high that it could bother not only you, but also the rest of the people who live with you and even neighbors. So let’s talk about the night mode of Google Nest or Google Home smart speakers.
Smart speakers and night mode
Mobile phones have long been offering options that enhance the nighttime user experience. For example, we have the night mode and do not disturb mode with which the interface darkens and that makes it more comfortable to visualize in low light environments. Also lowering the brightness level helps. Of course, the most interesting thing of all can be avoiding receiving notifications or other notices and alerts if we want to.
Both solutions are an improvement that if you weren’t taking advantage of, you should. Well, you have something similar in your Google smart speaker, both the Nest family and Home. This night mode gives options similar to those mentioned on mobile phones. What’s more, we could say that it is like the conjunction of the night mode and do not disturb, so it allows from dimming the brightness of the screen or LED lights that can integrate to everything related to sound and notifications.
Thanks to this, when night comes we would be sure that we could say something to the speaker and that it will respond to us at the level necessary to listen to it without disturbing other people who may be around us. How is this night mode configured? Let’s see it.
How to set the night mode of your Google speaker
Activating night mode on Google speakers is very simple and an option that you should know as the owner of one of them. So take note of the steps necessary to set it up.
- Access the Google Home application from your mobile device, both iOS and Android.
- Tap on the device you want to configure and then go to its Settings
- On the new screen you will see the option Enable night mode and a button to activate or not, press it
- With night mode activated, set the start and end time. To do this, touch From and then To to fix them
- Now decide which days it will go into operation or not, the ideal is every day of the week, but here you already decide
- Lastly, adjust the brightness of the LED indicators at night and the maximum volume at night
Done, you already have the night mode active. You should know that although notifications and other messages do not sound, alarms and timers will sound normally. So you can set an alarm to wake up at 7 in the morning and that the night mode does not end until 9 in the morning.
As you can see, all these simple adjustments are going to improve your experience of use at night. So if you didn’t know it yet and were a bit desperate to use it at night for this reason, you already know how to solve it.
