15 Cool Things to Know about Google Home Alarms

Phones have replaced our alarm clocks. Now the smart speakers are turning into new alarm clocks. One of the basic features of a smart speaker is setting up an alarm. Unlike conventional alarm clocks, smart speakers such as Google Home and Home Mini offer many alarm-related features. What are these? Let's find out in this guide how to effectively use alarms on Google Home.

Alarms also work on Google Assistant smart screens. Interestingly, you can even set a music alarm, stop the alarm from your phone and do a lot of other interesting things.

Let's start with tips for using alarms on Google Home.

Note: You can use your favorite alarm clock words like Hey Google. For convenience, we mentioned Okay Google in the post.

1. How to set an alarm on Google Home

You can use various voice commands to set the alarm on Google Home speakers. These include:

• Ok Google, set an alarm at 6 a.m.
• Ok Google, wake me up at 6 a.m.
• Ok Google, set an alarm for Monday 6 a.m.
• Ok Google, set an alarm in 30 minutes.

If you have several alarms, you can give a name to your alarms. To do this, say the command "Ok Google, set an alarm at 6 am called water".

2. How to set an alarm for each day

You wouldn't call Google Home a smart speaker if it couldn't set off a recurring alarm. You can either set the alarm for all days or select a day while speaking the command. For example,

• Ok Google, set an alarm at 6 a.m. every day
• Ok Google, set an alarm every Tuesday at 7 a.m.

Google Assistant will repeat the alarm you have set. In case the Wizard misunderstood it or if you want to cancel it, say "Ok Google, cancel the previous alarm".

3. Change the alarm tone of Google Home

You can't directly change the alarm tone on your Google Home, Mini or Nest. But you can set a music or character alarm tone, as shown in the next section.

4. How to set the music alarm on Google Home

Imagine waking up to your favorite Spotify song! Well, that’s possible thanks to Google Home’s musical alarms. To do this, you must first set a default music provider in the Google Home app. You can set Spotify, YouTube Music, etc. as your default music provider.

To do this, open the Google Home app and tap Settings. Scroll down and tap Music.

Then select a default music service.

Once you've set up a music account, it's time to ask Google Assistant to set up a music alarm. To do this, run one of the following commands:

Note: The multimedia alarm works for songs, your playlists in the music service and radio stations.

• Ok Google, set the alarm (playlist name) at 7 p.m.
• Ok Google, set the alarm (song name) to 8 p.m.
• Ok Google, set the alarm (radio name) to 9 a.m.

You can even ask Google Home, "Ok Google, play music at 8 am" and it will ask you what to play.

Note: To stop a musical alarm, say "Ok Google, stop". Other alarm commands such as canceling or verifying alarms also remain the same for musical alarms.

5. Set cool character alarms

Similar to musical alarms, you can wake up to the voices of your favorite characters.

The characters currently online on Google Home are:

• LEGO city
• Lego Life
• Lego friends
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Leonardo
• Michelangelo
• Raphael
• Donatello
• April O’Neil
• Hatchimals

To do this, say the command, "Ok Google, set a Lego City alarm to 8 am."

Note: The feature is available in Canada and the United States for now in English only.

6. How to repeat an alarm

To repeat an alarm on Google Home, just say "Ok Google, repeat". By default, it will repeat the alarm for 10 minutes. If you want to increase or decrease the duration of the repetition, say "Ok Google, repetition for X minutes". For example, repeat for 15 minutes. "

7. How to stop an alarm

You can stop the alarm on Google Home either by voice commands or by pressing on your device. Last year, Google introduced the deactivation feature of the alarm by simply saying Stop. Yes, you don't have to say Ok Google before the word stops. So when the alarm starts to sound, just say stop.

Note: The standalone stop command only works for the English language. This will not work for musical alarms.

The other commands to stop an alarm are:

• Ok Google, stop
• Ok Google, stop the alarm
• Ok Google, turn off the alarm
• Ok Google, I'm up

If you want to stop the alarm by touching it manually, here's how to do it on various Google Home devices.

• Google Home: tap at the top.
• Google Nest Mini (2nd generation): press in the center.
• Google Home Mini (1st generation): press and hold either side where you change the volume
• Google Home Max: tap the line at the top or right.
• Google Nest is displayed: tap Stop on the screen.

8. How to check active alarms

You can view active alarms from your Google Home device in two ways: using voice and from the Google Home app.

Check active alarms on Google Home using voice command

To do this, use the following commands:

• Ok Google, what alarms are set
• Ok Google, when is my next alarm
• Ok Google, when is my Monday alarm
• Ok google when is my tea alarm

View Google Home alarms on the phone

To check active Google Home alarms on Android or iPhone, follow these steps:

Step 1: Open the Google Home app and tap on your Google Home device. Tap the settings icon.

2nd step: Tap Alarms and Timers. You will find all your active alarms.

9. How to cancel an alarm

Use these commands to cancel an alarm on Google Home:

• Ok Google, cancel the alarm at 8 a.m.
• Ok Google, cancel (alarm name)

If you want to cancel all set alarms, say "Ok Google, cancel all alarms". To cancel a previously set alarm, say "Ok Google, cancel the previous alarm".

10. Cancel Google Home Alarm from the phone

To remove an alarm from your phone, repeat the above mentioned steps to check for active alarms on the Google Home app – open the app, go to your Google Home device settings and tap on Alarms & Timers . Then tap the cross icon next to the alarm you want to cancel.

11. How to configure Google Home Alarm from phone or PC

Although you can check and cancel Google Home alarms from your phone, you cannot create an alarm from the phone or computer. But, you can set a reminder from phone and PC, and Google Home will remind you.

To set a reminder from the phone, open Google Assistant and tell it to set a reminder by saying, "Set a reminder for 3 p.m."

Similarly, on PC, open Google Chrome and type "set a reminder for 14 hours in the search bar". Click Remind me on Google Now.

Note: Make sure you're signed in to the same Google account on Chrome that is connected to your Google Home.

At the time of the recall, Google Home will beep. Ask him, "Ok Google, what is the notification."

12. How to deactivate Google Home Alarm from the phone

When the alarm sounds on your Google Home, no notification is displayed on your connected Android or iPhone. This means that you cannot turn it off directly from the phone. But, you can stop the phone's Google Home alarm by removing it from the active alarms.

Basically, when the alarm starts to ring, open the Google Home app. Go to your speaker settings and tap Alarms and timers. Tap the cross icon next to the current alarm. This way you can stop the alarms remotely.

Note: With this you suppress the alarm. So you will need to add the alarm again if you want to use it.

13. Change the alarm volume of Google Home

Is your Google home alarm volume too loud or too low? Have you changed the volume settings, and yet the alarm volume does not change? This is because there is a separate controller for the volume of the alarm and the timer.

To use it, go to your speaker settings in the Google Home app. Tap Alarms and Timers. Change the volume using the slider.

Note: Changing the alarm volume only works for general alarms and not for music or character alarms. They will play at the previously defined volume of your Google Home.

14. How long does the Google Assistant alarm last

The alarm on Google Home devices will continue to sound for 10 minutes if it is not stopped or suspended.

15. What happens to the alarms if there is no Internet

Alarms will always sound if there is a problem with the Internet or if there is no Internet. If you have set a musical alarm and there is a problem with your Wi-Fi, the general alarm tone will sound.

Wake me up

These are interesting things about alarms on Google Home. You can even create Google Assistant routines at the time of your alarm. For example, you can have a routine where the lights will come on and the assistant will tell you about your day.