Google Home devices hit by widespread outage – responses delayed up to a minute

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Google Home users are having problems with their devices responding to them today.

Home hardware is taking up to a minute to reply, or timing out entirely.

Google Home is changing right now and a lot of that has to do with Gemini. We’ve had access to the next-gen assistant since last year, and we just saw the arrival of the Gemini-first Google Home Speaker this past month. Struggling with those growing pains has been hard enough on many people, but today we seem to be dealing with a problem that’s much more acute, as users report widespread issues connecting to Google Home.

Over on Reddit’s Google Home sub, we’ve spotted a couple threads full of user reports detailing their devices failures over the past several hours. Impacted users note their devices taking the better part of a minute to respond, or simply timing out entirely.