Google Home Mini smart speaker, factory default reset in progress, showing scanning bright white lights.
Gives Google Home Mini Volume Directions for how to raise and lower, on this little smart assistant. Here, we discuss all of them.
The methods you use depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the Mini itself has two touch pads as well, for volume control on its left and right edges. Plus, you can set volume with the native Google Home app. Finally, the Mini also sets loudness via voice commands.
Below, we show these basic ways, which you can do regardless of the app you’re streaming from. But we do not delve into app-specific volume setting of the output device. Why? Because with so many apps that send audio, this post would quickly grow too big. So, we’ll stick here with the basic volume setting methods here.
You can set the volume without using any apps, doing it as follows.
See this orientation as shown next.
This changes volume. The next picture shows the locations of these touch pad areas. Find them in the same straight line formed by the four activity lights.
Tap the left edge of the Mini (nine o’clock) to lower the volume by ten percent. Tap the right edge (three o’clock) to raise the volume by ten percent.
If you need finer volume setting, use the Google Home app to set volume, discussed below.
Google Home understands two scales for volume adjustment: 0-10 and 0-100 percent. If you want to say a percent to set the volume, then add the word ‘percent’ to your request. Example commands follow.
If you say the percent label, then 0 means lowest volume (muted) and 100 means max (full) volume. But if you do not say the percent label, then the volume range is between 0 and 10.
There are also shortcut commands for minimum and maximum volume setting, as in:
In the Google Home app, which must have Wi-Fi access to your Mini, you can also set the volume. How? By finding the Mini in the available Google devices list in the app. Then, move the volume slider left and right, until you reach the volume level you wish.
Note that you can’t set volume unless it is actually streaming / playing some media. That is, you won’t see the volume control in the Google Home app unless streaming is in progress when you check for it.
To set the volume from within the Google Home app, follow the procedure given below.
Find the app on your mobile device and tap its icon.
You should see its Home screen, as shown next.
See an example of this pointed at by the pink arrow in the last picture. This brings up the main menu, as shown next.
See this, pointed to by the pink arrow in the last picture.
You then get the Devices screen, as shown in the picture down in the next step.
See this as shown next.
The Google Home Mini is currently streaming when you see a small speaker icon (volume setting link). Find this in the lower right edge of its device card, as pointed at by the pink arrow.
But this button does not show when not streaming, as discussed earlier. Thus, you won’t be able to sett volume via the Home app, when the Mini is playing nothing. So, be sure to start your Mini playing before setting volume.
See the volume button in the last picture.
Tapping the Volume button then brings up the volume control screen, as seen next.
Drag this slider around the circle left and right, until you hear your desired volume.
The slider control gives a finer volume setting than the touch pads on the Google Mini itself. That is, you can raise and lower the volume in much smaller increments. This is much finer than the ten-percent bumps you get when tapping the touch pads on the Mini.
Note that moving the volume slider around takes effect immediately. No need to press any Submit buttons to force the new loudness setting into effect.
If using your Mini Google Home as a Bluetooth speaker, you can set volume with the controls on the paired device. In this demo, we’re playing YouTube content on our iPad Air, and streaming to the Mini Google via a Bluetooth connection that we set up prior.
See our post here, that demonstrates how to pair.
You could stream an internet radio station, a song from Spotify, or an Audible book, all viable audio sources. In this demo, we streamed YouTube audio to our Mini as shown next.
See this as as shown next.
Note the pink arrowed volume setter square with a speaker inside of it in the last picture.
Also note that the volume change you hear lags by a second or so. Why? Because of the latency (delay) of the commands going across the Bluetooth airwaves.
Finally, you can cast to the Google Home devices like the Mini too. Similar to Bluetooth, but done over Wi-Fi instead. Yet like in this Bluetooth example, you can usually set the volume of the Mini. How? By adjusting it in the casting app.
But again, we’re not covering here how to set volume for individual apps. So, we leave this detail as a reader exercise.
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