Make carrier calls on Google Nest or Google Home speakers and displays

With carrier calling on speakers and displays, you can utilize your phone's mobile or landline service programme to phone call friends, family unit, and businesses as your program allows. Calls y'all make are billed co-ordinate to your programme. Emergency calling is not available, except through Taiwan Mobile and Telstra.

Carrier calling doesn't require a telephone nearby, so you can make calls fifty-fifty when your phone is out of battery or in a different location.

Carrier calling on speakers and displays requires a subscription to a calling plan through select calling providers listed below. Additional calling methods may too be available in your area. Larn more than most making calls on your speakers and displays.

Calling providers

  • Google Fi (United states of america)
  • Google Vocalism (U.s.a.)
  • Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan)
  • Telecom Italia (Italy)
  • Telstra (Australia)

Google Fi

  • Approachable calling with Google Fi on speakers and displays is available in the US.
  • Emergency calls are not supported.
  • Learn more nearly Google Fi.

Google Voice

  • Approachable calling with Google Voice on speakers and displays is available in the United states and Canada.
  • You tin make calls to places outside the Usa at listed rates.
  • Requires a Google Vocalisation number that has credits to make international calls.
  • Emergency calls are not supported.
  • Larn more nearly Google Voice.

Taiwan Mobile (TWM)

  • Carrier calling with TWM on speakers and displays is available in Taiwan.
  • You can brand and receive calls on one speaker or display with your TWM 070 number.
  • Emergency calls are supported.
  • Information charges may apply. Call charges are in accord with your TWM 070 plan.
  • Learn more about Taiwan Mobile.

Telecom Italia (TIM)

  • Calling with TIM on speakers and displays is available in Italia.
  • You can link your MyTIM account and apply your TIM registered number to make outgoing calls on your speaker or display.
  • Inbound calling through the speaker or display is available when you set up calling with your stock-still line number. Entering calling is non however available if yous prepare calling with your mobile line number.
  • Each MyTIM registered number supports up to 5 devices for calling.
  • Requirements:
    • Fixed line linking: TIM Fibra fixed line enabled for Vocalization traffic, a MyTIM account, and a speaker or display connected to a TIM Wi-Fi fixed broadband network (Fibra or ADSL), and activated through the Google Home app.
    • Mobile line linking: TIM prepaid mobile phone service with a credit, a MyTIM account, and a speaker or display continued to a TIM Wi-Fi fixed broadband network (Fibra or ADSL), and activated through the Google Home app.
  • Data charges may apply. Call charges are in accordance with your TIM offer plan (mobile and/or fixed line).
  • Emergency calls are supported when you link your Fiber fixed line to your speaker or display. Emergency calling is not yet available for mobile line linking.

Learn more than well-nigh TIM.

Telstra

  • Carrier calling with Telstra on speakers and displays is bachelor in Australia.
  • You can make and receive calls on your speaker and brandish with your Telstra mobile number.
  • Each Telstra phone number supports up to 10 devices for calling.
  • Information charges may use. Call charges are in accordance with your Telstra mobile programme.
  • Emergency calls are supported on all devices connected to your home, even if that's more than than 10 devices.
  • To call E000, say "Hey Google, call triple nothing."

Learn more than about voice-activated calling with Telstra.

Before you begin

What you need

Who you can call

  • With carrier calling, you can link your speaker or brandish with your calling provider. This allows you to make calls to whatever numbers available in your call provider'southward programme.
  • International and premium numbers, if included in your plan.
  • Emergency calling is not bachelor, except through Taiwan Mobile and Telstra.

How much calls cost

  • All calls will be charged in accordance with your phone call provider's programme.
  • Data charges may apply.

Turn on personal results to call contacts

Personal results allow you to phone call your Google contacts when you say their name, "Hey Google, call [contact name]." Larn more about personal results.

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. Tap your device.
  3. Tap Settings and thenRecognition & sharing and thenRecognition & personalization.
  4. Turn onAllow personal results.

Note: To make calls to your contacts, Web and app activity must likewise be turned on in your account.

Sync your contacts

Update your contacts and remove duplicates

Speakers or displays utilize 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 upward your contacts:

  1. Go to contacts.google.com.
  2. Tap Search or the search field, and enter the name of the contact you want to update.
  3. Tap the contact you want to go along.
  4. Under "Contact details," verify that a phone number is present.
  5. Now, return to your contacts and find and tap the proper noun of a indistinguishable contact.
  6. Tap More More menu and then Delete.

Tips:

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

Let multiple people brand calls from the same device

With Voice Lucifer enabled, additional members of your home tin can use their own contacts to brand calls on your device. To let multiple people use their contacts from the same device, each person needs to gear up Phonation Match.

Important: If no ane sets upward Voice Lucifer, everyone can employ the contacts of the device's owner if the owner has personal results turned on.

Household contacts

With household contacts gear up, you can allow anyone with access to your speakers or displays to call specific contacts that you cull. On Google Nest displays, this besides provides easy touch access to make calls to those contacts.

Fix and manage household contacts

Show your number when yous make calls

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

Show your phone number

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

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

  4. Go back to the abode screen, then tap Settings.
  5. Ringlet 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, then tap Add.
  8. You'll receive a text with a code. Enter the code, then tap Verify.
    • ​If you don't receive a code, wait 30 seconds, so tap Ship new code.

  9. Your phone number should show up under "Your ain number." This tin take up to 10 minutes to appear.

Hibernate your phone number

If y'all don't want the people y'all call to find your phone number, y'all tin use an unlisted number.

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

  3. Verify that the Google Account shown is the i linked to your speaker or display. To switch accounts, tap another account or Add another account.

  4. Become dorsum to the abode screen so tap Settings .
  5. Curl to "Services," then tap Communication and then  Phone call Providers.
  6. Under "Your own number," tap Edit.
  7. Tap Use unlisted number.

Receiving calls

Incoming calls with carrier calling are available through select calling providers. Check if your call provider offers incoming calls. When someone calls your number, all your home speakers and displays band.

To answer a telephone call, say "Hey Google," and then "Answer the telephone call." To pass up a call say "Hey Google," then "Decline the call." Or, utilise one of the following touch options:

Reply or decline touch controls

Google Nest Hub Max, Google Nest Hub

  • Tap Answer.
  • Tap Decline.

Google Home

  • Tap the top to answer.
  • Press and concord the top to decline.

Google Home Max

  • Tap the line on the top or side to reply.
  • Press and concur the line on the top or side to decline.

Google Nest Mini (2nd gen), Google Nest Sound, Google Nest Wifi signal

  • Tap the center to answer.
  • Tap and hold the centre to decline.

Google Abode Mini (1st gen)

  • Tap the side to answer.
  • Press and concur the side to decline.

Do not disturb

To temporarily prevent a device from receiving calls, turn on Do Not Disturb.

Note: This also disables incoming broadcasts and reminder notifications. To forestall call notifications on a regular schedule, ready nighttime mode.

Just Band When Home

Only Ring When Habitation allows y'all to receive incoming calls on your speakers or displays when yous're home, and prevents calls to your devices when yous're away from home. In one case enabled, presence sensing automatically determines whether you're habitation or away and tin can be used for other features that depend on location information like Home & Away Routines.

Changes made to presence sensing settings in a feature that uses presence sensing could affect how the other features function if they rely on presence sensing. For example, if you turn off telephone location in Home & Abroad Routines, this causes your home devices to ring if someone calls while you're away.

Annotation: You tin can but apply 1 app to share phone location at a time. For example, if you've shared your phone location with the Nest app, when you enable your location in the Dwelling house app, this gets disabled in the Nest app.

Except for Nest Hub (2nd gen), Only Band When Domicile does not apply to calls between your devices.

Turn on Only Ring When Domicile

Yous can plow on Just Ring When Home with the Google Domicile app and so that your speakers and displays don't ring when you lot're away from habitation.

  1. Open up the Google Home app Google Home app.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Tap Adviceand then Device & Phone call Settings.
  4. Under "Only ring when dwelling," tap Prepare.
  5. Follow the in-app instructions.

Note: If y'all've previously set up Domicile & Away Routines, you accept the option instead of "Prepare" to just turn on Only ring when dwelling house.

Plow off Simply Ring When Dwelling

Make Google-supported calls with your speaker or display

To command your call, apply your vocalization or your screen.

Make a call

Say "Hey Google," and so:

  • "Call [contact proper name]."
  • "Telephone call [business name]."
  • "What is the nearest [business organisation]?" then "Hey Google, call them."
    • You volition get a prompt to add the name and number to your Google contacts.
  • "Call [phone number]."
  • "Redial."

If yous've ready household contacts on a Google Nest display, you tin can also cull a contact from your display. Merely tap Phone call on the "Household contacts" card. The calling method used with household contacts depends on the contact selected.

Stop a call

Say "Hey Google," and so:

  • Google Nest Hub Max, Google Nest Hub:"End the call" or "Hang up," or tap End call.
  • Google Home, Google Home Max: "Terminate the call" or "Hang up," or tap the meridian to hang upwards.
  • Google Nest Mini, Google Nest Wifi point, Google Nest Audio: "Stop the call" or "Hang upwards," or tap the eye to hang upwardly.
  • Google Domicile Mini: "End the call" or "Hang up," or tap the side to hang upwardly.

Yous can also say "Hey Google," "Stop," "Disconnect," or "End telephone call." If the recipient ends the call, you'll get an end call tone.

Mute or unmute a call

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

View activity

Inside My activity, y'all can become a phonation recording of the query used to start the call, or queries used to interact with the Banana such as "Hey Google, hang upwards." Nix else is recorded.

Unlink carrier calling from your speaker or display

  1. Open the Google Domicile appGoogle 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 another account or Add some other business relationship.
  4. Get back to the home screen, then tap Settings.
  5. Roll to "Services," then tap Communication and then  Call Providers.
  6. Next to your service provider, tap Unlink.

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