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Google Home is still re-adding audio features it lost due to the Sonos lawsuit


Group volume control is back, baby.

The company says there will be other ways to access its “Group Volume Control” feature later, including from an Android smartphone lock screen or smart displays like the Google Nest Hub. Google was forced to remove some multiroom audio features after Sonos won its patent lawsuit against the company in 2022. Google typically rolls out features over time, though the company doesn’t mention anything about that in the Nest Community post about the change, so it may have just flipped a server-side switch to turn this on for everyone.

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