Make Google-supported calls with your speaker or display

With Google-supported calling on Google Nest and Abode speakers and displays, you can call friends, family and businesses using just your voice. This functionality is available in the US and Canada (excluding territories). Boosted calling methods may too be available in your surface area. Larn more about making calls on speakers and displays.

Annotation: If you've linked an account through carrier calling, calls you brand will exist placed using carrier calling instead of Google-supported calling and will be charged according to your program.

Before y'all begin

What yous need

  • The latest version of the Google Home app.
  • Google Nest or Home speaker or display firmware version i.39.154941 or later. Bank check your firmware version. If your device is connected to the internet, it will automatically update to the latest version.
  • To be located in the United states or CA.Annotation: U.s.a. territories are non currently supported.

Who you tin call

  • US or Canada phone numbers, if you're in the U.s.a. or Canada

You cannot brand calls to emergency services.

Prepare Google-supported calling on your speaker or display

In the United states and CA, you can make Google-supported calls to numbers in your Google contacts. Yous tin say "Hey Google, call [contact proper name]." The post-obit steps will help you make calls to your contacts by proper noun, and apply boosted optional features:

Sync your contacts

To call contacts saved on your iPhone or iPad:

  1. Go to myaccount.google.com/devicecontacts.
  2. Under "Contact info from your devices," turn on Save contacts from your signed-in devices.
  3. Open the Google Abode app .
  4. Tap Settingsand thenAdvice and then  Call providers.
  5. Side by side to "Contacts Uploading," tap Plough on. To update, tap Upload Now.

Contacts from your device will now periodically sync with the Google Assistant.

If you lot have many contacts or new contacts, information technology can take a few minutes for them to be available for calling.

Update your contacts and remove duplicates

Speakers or displays employ your Google contacts to make calls. If your contacts' info isn't complete or contains similar or duplicate names or numbers, your device may not be able to place calls to certain contacts.

To clean up your contacts:

  1. Get to contacts.google.com.
  2. Tap Search or the search field, and enter the proper name of the contact you want to update.
  3. Tap the contact you want to proceed.
  4. Nether "Contact details," verify that a phone number is present.
  5. Now, return to your contacts and notice and tap the name of a duplicate contact.
  6. Tap More More menu and then Delete.

Tips:

  • Make sure all your contacts' names are unique. Include start and last names if bachelor.
  • Add a phone number, and if bachelor, an email to each contact.
  • If a contact appears under "Other contacts," tap Add to contacts to include in "My contacts."

Allow multiple people make calls from the same device

With Voice Match enabled, additional members of your home can use their own contacts to make calls on your device. To permit multiple people use their contacts from the aforementioned device, each person needs to prepare Vox Match.

Important: If no i sets upwards Phonation Lucifer, everyone can apply the contacts of the device's owner if the possessor has personal results turned on.

Household contacts

With household contacts fix upward, you can allow anyone with access to your speakers or displays to call specific contacts that you lot choose. On Google Nest displays, this also provides easy affect access to make calls to those contacts.

Set upwards and manage household contacts

Testify your number when you brand calls

When you make calls, the recipient may find "Unknown," "Private," or "Anonymous" on their caller ID. If you'd like the people you call to discover your phone number instead, you lot can add your phone number.

Evidence your phone number

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. At the top right, tap your account.

  3. Verify that the Google Account shown is the one linked to your speaker or display. To switch accounts, tap some other business relationship or Add another business relationship.

  4. Go back to the home screen, then tap Settings.
  5. Scroll to "Services," then tap Communication and then Call Providers.
  6. Under "Your own number," tap Edit and then Add or change phone number.
  7. Enter your phone number, so tap Add.
  8. You'll receive a text with a lawmaking. Enter the code, and then tap Verify.
    • ​If you don't receive a code, await 30 seconds, then tap Ship new code.

  9. Your phone number should testify up under "Your own number." This can take up to 10 minutes to announced.

Hide your phone number

If you don't want the people you call to find your phone number, you can use an unlisted number.

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. At the superlative right, tap your account.

  3. Verify that the Google Business relationship shown is the ane linked to your speaker or display. To switch accounts, tap another business relationship or Add together another account.

  4. Get back to the home screen then tap Settings .
  5. Gyre to "Services," and then tap Communication and then  Telephone call Providers.
  6. Under "Your ain number," tap Edit.
  7. Tap Use unlisted number.

Make Google-supported calls with your speaker or brandish

To control your call, apply your voice or your screen.

Make a call

Say "Hey Google," then:

  • "Phone call [contact name]."
  • "Call [business name]."
  • "What is the nearest [business organization]?" then "Hey Google, call them."
    • You will become a prompt to add the name and number to your Google contacts.
  • "Call [phone number]."
  • "Redial."

If you've set up household contacts on a Google Nest display, y'all tin can also cull a contact from your display. Just tap Call on the "Household contacts" bill of fare. The calling method used with household contacts depends on the contact selected.

End a call

Say "Hey Google," so:

  • Google Nest Hub Max, Google Nest Hub:"End the call" or "Hang up," or tap Cease call.
  • Google Home, Google Dwelling house Max: "End the telephone call" or "Hang up," or tap the superlative to hang up.
  • Google Nest Mini, Google Nest Wifi point, Google Nest Audio: "End the call" or "Hang up," or tap the center to hang up.
  • Google Home Mini: "End the phone call" or "Hang upward," or tap the side to hang upward.

You can also say "Hey Google," "Finish," "Disconnect," or "Stop call." If the recipient ends the call, you'll become an end call tone.

Mute or unmute a call

  • Say "Hey Google," "Mute call" or "Unmute call."
  • Tap Mute .

View activity

Inside My activity, you tin get a vocalization recording of the query used to commencement the call, or queries used to interact with the Assistant such every bit "Hey Google, hang up." Goose egg else is recorded.

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