Google Home app on iOS, displaying its volume control screen for the Google Home Mini smart speaker.
There are many ways for how to turn up volume on Google Home Mini speaker. 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 up the volume without using any apps, doing it this way, as follows.
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to turn up Google Mini volume. The next pic shows the spots of the touch pad zones. Find them in the same straight line formed by the four activity lights.
Tap the right edge of the speaker (three o’clock) to raise the volume by ten percent.
If you need finer volume setting, use the Google Home app to raise speaker volume, described 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 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 leave out 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 Wi-Fi access to your Google Mini speaker, you can set the speaker volume. How? By finding the speaker in the available Google devices list in the app. Then, move the volume slider left and right, until you hit the volume level you wish.
Note that you can’t turn up speaker volume unless it is actually streaming / playing something. That is, you won’t see the volume control in the Google Home app unless streaming when you look.
To turn up the volume from within the Google Home app, follow the procedure listed next.
on your mobile device. You should see its Home screen, as shown next.
We pointed at this with the purple arrow in the last picture.
Touching the hamburger control 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 shown in the picture.
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 up the volume like this, when the Google Mini is playing nothing. So, be sure to stream something to your Mini before setting volume this way.
See the speaker volume button in the last picture.
Tapping it then brings up the volume control screen, as shown next.
Drag the volume control right around the circle, until you hear the volume rise.
The slider control gives more granular control than the touch pads on the Google Mini itself. That is, you can raise the volume in much finer jumps. This is much finer than the ten-percent bumps you get when tapping the volume-up touch pad on the Google Mini.
Note that moving the volume slider up takes effect right away. No need to press any Submit buttons to force the higher volume setting into effect.
If using your Google Mini as a Bluetooth speaker, you can turn up its 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 by way of a Bluetooth connection.
See our post here, that shows how to pair.
Find recordings to play on 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 purpled arrowed volume setter square with a speaker inside of it in the last picture.
Also note that the volume raising 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 turn up the speaker volume. How? By raising it in the casting app.
But also, again, we’re not covering here how to turn up volume for singular apps. So, we leave this detail as an exercise for the reader.
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