After a number of years of authorized battles, you may as soon as once more management your grouped audio system utilizing the Google Dwelling app and Google Assistant. The characteristic was launched in Android 15 beta 2 final week and is now obtainable to everybody, so customers not have to regulate the quantity one speaker at a time on their Android telephones.
From the Google Dwelling app, it’s best to have the ability to alter the quantity from the Now Taking part in display from inside the app when taking part in on a number of audio system simply by adjusting the quantity usually – the identical goes for Google Assistant suitable sensible audio system. The corporate says there can be different methods to entry the “Group Quantity Management” characteristic later, together with from an Android smartphone lock display or sensible screens just like the Google Nest Hub.
Google normally rolls out options over time, although the corporate doesn't point out something about it within the Nest Neighborhood submit in regards to the change, so it's potential they've flipped a server-side change to allow this for everybody. And whereas it particularly mentions the Android model of the Google Dwelling app, adjusting the quantity for a gaggle of audio system within the iOS app additionally works, albeit with out the Now Taking part in UI or the power to regulate that quantity utilizing your telephone's quantity buttons (except you particularly do it from, say, the YouTube Music app with the output selector open).
I ought to word that I couldn't use Google Assistant on a smartphone to alter the quantity for a gaggle of audio system. Google didn’t instantly reply to a request for extra info.