Can You Change the Alarm Sound on Google Home?
While you can change the alarm sound on Google Home, there are some limitations on exactly how you can change it and what you can change it to, depending on which Google Home speaker or Nest display you’re using. On Nest devices with a screen, users can change the default alarm tone. Don’t worry; Google provides a nice variety of options. If you have a Google Home or Nest speaker without a screen, you’re stuck with the default tone. However, you can set a media or character alarm on any Google Home device in place of changing the tone. If you set a media alarm, you will hear the requested music instead of the default alarm tone when your alarm goes off. Similarly, if you set a character alarm, you’ll hear the requested character instead of the default alarm tone.
How to Change the Alarm Tone on a Google Nest Display
If you have a Nest display, like Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max, and it has the latest firmware, you can change its default alarm tone. However, doing this requires a touch screen, so you can’t do it on devices that don’t have one. Here’s how to change the alarm tone on a Google Nest display:
How to Set a Media Alarm on Google Home
While you can’t choose a custom tone for Google Home alarms that you didn’t set on a Nest display, you can set a media alarm. This type of alarm uses a song instead of an alarm tone. To do this, you request an alarm with a specific song, artist, or radio station. Google Home then pulls the necessary song or radio station from your default music streaming service and uses it instead of the default alarm tone. Here are some examples of commands you can use to set a media alarm on Google Home:
Say, “Okay, Google. Set a Chopin alarm for 8 AM every day,” and Google Home will wake you up with music from the composer Chopin every morning.Say, “Hey Google, set an Eye of the Tiger music alarm for 5 PM,” and Google Home will play Eye of the Tiger at 5 PM, just the one time.Say, “Hey Google, set a K-pop radio alarm for 6 AM tomorrow,” and Google Home will wake you up the following day with an assortment of k-pop songs from your default music service.
How to Set a Character Alarm on Google Home
Character alarms work the same as media alarms on Google Home speakers and displays. You can set them with voice commands, and they work on Google smart speakers, which come without a display. Instead of playing an alarm tone or music, your Google Home speaker plays a message from the character you requested. Google supports a variety of character voices. Here are some commands you can use to set a Google Home character alarm:
Say, “Okay, Google, set a Donatello alarm for 7 AM tomorrow,” and Donatello from the Ninja Turtles will wake you up the next day.Say, “Okay, Google, set a Hatchimals alarm for 6 AM every day this week,” and Hatchimals will wake you up every day during the current week.Say, “Hey Google, set a Lego City alarm for 4 PM,” and your Google Home device will play audio from Lego City at 4 PM, just the one time.
