In case you did not know, Google Assistant units just like the Nest Hub can play white noise ambient sound that will help you or your younger ones get to sleep. However, multiple users have noticed that Google lately modified that to one thing that loops extra steadily and has a muffled sound, based on 9to5Google. As a end result, they and their infants and toddlers are apparently dropping sleep over it.

“White noise” is among the many 14 ambient noises accessible from Google Assistant, together with “babbling brook,” “fireplace,” “ocean” and others. You can play them for as much as 12 hours if not disabled by a sleep timer, and the 2nd-gen Nest Hub has an “auto-off” function that turns off the sound when you go to sleep.

Previously, it looped the White Noise sound each hour, however now the sound is repeated each 10 minutes, one thing customers discover annoying and repetitive. On prime of that, the beforehand crisp sound file is now apparently “muffled” and quieter than earlier than. “It’s a different pitch, almost muffled,” stated one consumer. “Very annoying you have to set the volume to 70 percent,” one other famous. 

There are at the very least 100 complaints alongside the identical strains, with many individuals saying they use the white noise to get their infants or toddlers to sleep. “I play it every night for my toddler and she’s really upset about this change,” stated one. “Please, let there be a way to get the older version back so we can maintain our sleep schedule and sanity!”

Google could have modified the file to cut back information utilization, as one Redditor stated that his Mini used about 4GB of information each evening simply taking part in Google’s ambient noises. Another acknowledged that this can be a “first world problem,” nevertheless it goes to point out how tiny adjustments in broadly used know-how could cause unintended issues. If you employ the outdated sound and miss it, one other Reddit consumer has uploaded the original to Google Drive, so you could possibly in idea obtain it and solid to YouTube Music.