Google Home Mini smart speaker with factory default reset In progress, showing scanning white lights on top.
There are many ways for how to turn down Google Home Mini volume. These depend on the app(s) you’re streaming from mainly. But the speaker 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 turn the volume down without using any apps, doing it this way, as follows.
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The next pic shows the locations of the touch pad zones. Find them in the same straight line formed by the four activity lights.
Tap the left edge of the speaker (nine o’clock) to lower the volume by ten percent.
If you need finer volume lowering, use the Google Home app to turn down speaker volume, described below.
This speaker 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 command. Example commands follow.
If you say the percent label, then 0 means lowest volume (muted) and 100 means max (full) volume. But if you omit the percent label, then the volume range runs 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 WiFi access to your speaker, you can turn down the speaker volume as well. How? By finding the speaker in its available devices list. Then, move the volume slider left until you hit your desired volume level.
Note that you can’t lower speaker volume in this way unless it is actually streaming / playing something. Why not? Because you won’t see the volume control in the app unless streaming.
To lower the volume from the app, follow the routine listed next.
Bring up Home on your mobile device. You should see its Home screen, as shown next.
This item is pointed at by the purple arrow in the previous picture.
This then brings up the main menu, as shown next.
See this, pointed to by the purple arrow in the last picture.
You then see the Devices screen, as exemplified in the picture shown in the next step.
See this as shown next.
The speaker 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 purple arrow.
But this button does not show when not streaming. Thus, you won’t be able to turn down the volume like this, when the Mini is playing nothing. So, be sure to stream something to your speaker before lowering the volume this way.
See the speaker volume button in the last picture.
Tapping it then brings up the volume control screen, as pictured next.
Drag the slider left (counterclockwise) around the circle, until you reach your preferred volume.
The slider control provides a more granular lowering of the volume than the touch pads on the Google Mini itself. That is, you can lower the volume in much finer increments. This is much finer than the ten-percent bumps you get when tapping the touch pads on the speaker.
Note that moving the volume slider around takes effect right away. No need to press any Submit buttons to force the new setting into effect.
If using your Google Mini as a Bluetooth speaker, you can turn down the volume with the controls on the paired device. In this demo, we’re playing YouTube content on our iPad Air, and streaming to the Google Mini via a Bluetooth connection.
See our post here, that explains how to pair.
Stream such recordings as an internet radio station, a song from Spotify, or an Audible book. In this demo, we streamed YouTube audio to our Google Mini, as shown next.
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Note the purple arrowed volume setter square with a speaker inside of it in the last picture.
Also note that the volume drop 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 lower the volume of the speaker. How? By turning it down in the casting app.
But again, we’re not covering in this piece how to lower volume for individual apps. So, we leave doing this as an exercise for the reader.
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