Google Home Can Now Remotely Enable Do Not Disturb Mode on Phones; Cuts Down on Reciting Steps in a Routine

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Home Can Now Remotely Enable Do Not Disturb Mode on Phones; Cuts Down on Reciting Steps in a Routine

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has quietly rolled out a new feature and a behavioural change for the

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Assistant on

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Home smart speakers. Starting with the new feature, users can now activate the Do Not Disturb mode on their smartphone by just saying asking the

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Home speaker to do so via relevant voice command. As for the behavioural change, the

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Home no longer vocally recites every step it is performing that is part of a routine set by users. However, it is not clear when the aforesaid changes went live.

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that the

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Home no longer recites every single step of a routine. Earlier, the

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Assistant would alert users about every step of a routine that was in progress. But now, individual steps in a pre-specified routine are not accompanied by a vocal cue every time a routine is *********. However, individual commands that need the

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Assistant to respond vocally as well as standalone actions will still be accompanied by a vocal response.

Moreover, another

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from Android Police states that the

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Assistant will now enable the Do Not Disturb mode on a linked smartphone via relevant voice command. For example, users can ask the

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Home to “silence my phone” or “activate DND mode on my phone” to enable the Do Not Disturb mode.

But in case the

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account being used for the

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Home is linked to multiple smartphones, users will have to specify the device, on which they want to enable the DND mode. As per

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’s support

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, users can also choose to activate DND mode on all devices in a network via voice command. However, it is not clear when the aforementioned changes went live, or if it is available to only a small set of users in certain regions.

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home remotely enable do not disturb mode routine steps

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