Google Home Speakers No Longer Support Guest Mode

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Home Speakers No Longer Support Guest Mode

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’s cast-enabled devices, including the Chromecast and

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Home series of smart speakers, allow users to cast content directly onto the devices. This can be audio and video content, depending on the device in use, and uses Wi-Fi and Internet connectivity to function. Since 2014, there has been a feature called ‘Guest Mode’ which allows visitors to your home to cast to devices without being connected to your Wi-Fi. It now seems that ‘Guest Mode’ has disappeared for

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Home devices.

According to a new report by

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, ‘Guest Mode’ for

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Home devices is no longer available. This means that guests and visitors will now have to be logged onto your Wi-Fi in order to cast to

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Home devices.

Earlier, ‘Guest Mode’ allowed visitors to cast without logging onto the host’s Wi-Fi network, instead using mobile data to send information which was directly streamed on the

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Home device through the home Wi-Fi connection. This is useful as it means the host does not need to share Wi-Fi details with everyone looking to cast, and only provide a PIN which the visitor can connect to – a feature that we’d expect would come in very handy during parties, or if you’re particularly protective of your Wi-Fi details.

Interestingly, the report by Android Police states that the feature has only been deactivated for

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Home devices. Chromecast devices continue to support ‘Guest Mode’ which can be activated or deactivated through the

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Home app on the smartphone of the device owner. It doesn’t seem like a particularly large loss, and indeed very few people may have actually been using it on

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Home devices because of the complicated methods involved in using the feature.

If you were using ‘Guest Mode’ on your

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Home device, the workarounds are simple enough. You can share your Wi-Fi details with the visitor and they’ll be able to connect and cast normally, or use Bluetooth to allow visitors to connect to your

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Home and play audio the old-fashioned way.

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