With the Chromecast, the Google Home app automatically assigns a name to the device based on its location. In this guide, we will show you how you can change it later so that you no longer mix up devices.
- So that you do not confuse multiple Chromecast devices, each of them is assigned a name.
- It is assigned by default during setup.
- You can change the name later in the Google Home app.
Just like everyone has a name, Google’s Chromecast devices use names to tell multiple streaming sticks apart. If a device changes its location, you should ideally change the name as well. We’ll show you how to do this in the Google Home app.
You can change the name of your Chromecast device in the Google Home app. In the following we will show you step by step how to do this.
Finished! The name of your Chromecast will now be changed. It may need to be restarted for it to work.
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