How to Add Multiple Users to Google Home

This guide explains how to add multiple user accounts to Google Home. Instead of sharing things like your calendar or music with everyone in the house, allowing multiple users to interact with Google’s smart speaker. In fact, Google Home can add up to six different users to your device and it will recognize each of them. with their voice.

Basically, it can recognize who is talking to it and respond with that account’s information, songs, or calendar details. Google added this feature in 2017, but most Home users don’t know it exists.

This way, multiple people can use the same home appliance instead of buying their own. Easily add up to six different contacts on a single device. Then everyone gets their own personalized information, alerts or can stream their own music collection. It’s all pretty simple and here’s how to do it.

How to Add Multiple Users to Google Home

If you’re new to Home or Home Mini, you’ll see a popup informing you about multi-user support. For everyone else, we just need to go to settings. Note: If the account is not yours, the other person must follow these instructions on their device.

Instructions

From here, you will see the Add device option or if you’ve already done this once see an option to select the Google Home you want to add. Find the desired Home device, select continue and follow the onscreen prompts. If you have the updated app, the instructions are similar. Go and enter this and .

Google will ask you to teach Assistant (and Google Home connected to your phone) to recognize your voice. You’ll say “Ok, Google” and “Hey, Google” and that’s it. Now, the device will use sound match to recognize the progress of your voice. Tap Continue and you’re ready, or you can use the “invite” button to send it to others in your household. This way they can easily accept the invitation, train their voice and start enjoying the smart speaker too.

Managing Accounts

As we said earlier, you can add up to six different accounts or users to Google Home. Just follow the instructions above on each account or device and that’s it. Note that if you use the same voice for multiple accounts, Home will use the first account by default for any question or query.

For a list of all active and linked accounts, go to. This is also another area where you can easily add an account and train the voice model and where to go when removing an account.

How to Use Multiple Accounts on Google Home

Okay, now that the whole family (or roommates) has installed the Google Home app and added their voices, you’re all set. You don’t have to do anything to switch between accounts. Ask your Google Home a question and it will use your account when needed. Tell your house to play music and it will access your music collection based on your voice.

When someone else says “Ok Google, tell me about my day”, their schedule and calendar are checked, not yours. Google uses voice matching to quickly and intelligently know who you’re talking to and responds with account information.

Don’t forget to go to and customize the news sources that Google Home can access, or add smart devices from your home to each account. This is to prevent anyone in the house from pairing with your Google Home device and controlling your smart devices. Every account should add them if they want to control said devices.

Before you go, learn how to change the voice in Google Assistant and take a look at these cool things Google Home can do.