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Dads will be proud: Google Home command now turns on lights in just one room
July 23, 2025
If you ask yourGoogle Hometo “Turn on the lights” — but don’t clarify in which room to do so — the usual action is forGoogle Assistantto turn on every light in your home.
This gets the job done, for sure, but it’s terribly wasteful. Most people will likely forget that all the lights in the house are on and thus waste a lot of energy. And then your dad yells out, “Why are all the lights on in here?! Who pays the bills in this house?!”
However, an update is slowly rolling out to Google Home hardware that will change the default action of the simple “Turn on the lights” command, as confirmed byAndroid Police. Soon, saying “Turn on the lights” will only trigger the lights in the room where you gave the command.
The command will only work properly under two conditions:
As an example, if you are in the kitchen and say “Turn on the lights” to yourGoogle Home Minithat is assigned to the kitchen, that Google Home will turn on on all the lights in the kitchen, but nowhere else.
However, if either the lights or the Home hardware has no room designation, all the lights in the house will turn on as usual.
Users on Reddit started to notice the change about a week ago, but it wasn’t until today thatAndroid Policewas able to independently verify that the change is rolling out.
Give it a shot in your own home if you have the proper setup. Let us know in the comments how it works out!
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