From The Verge · Jess Weatherbed · · 1m 10s
Google Home speakers downloading hundreds of gigabytes daily
Some Google Home Speaker owners report their devices continuously downloading massive amounts of data in the background, possibly due to failed firmware updates.
In brief
Some Google Home Speaker owners report their devices continuously downloading massive amounts of data in the background, possibly due to failed firmware updates. Google Home speakers are downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data daily due to a firmware update bug; Google says a fix is rolling out. Originally reported…
Google Home speakers downloading massive data
Some Google Home Speaker owners report their devices continuously downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data in the background. One Redditor found his device consuming more than two hundred GB per day.
“more than 200GB per day”
Firmware update failure suspected
The bug may be caused by Google Home speakers failing to correctly download and install a firmware update. The issue was reported by nine to five Google and several Reddit users over the last week.
Impact varies widely across devices
Most reports involve the new Google Home Speaker model, but the issue's scope is unclear.
Google rolling out fix for affected users
Google confirmed it is aware of the issue and said a fix is already rolling out that should address this for users.
“a fix is already rolling out that should address this for users”
The main idea
Google Home speakers are downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data daily due to a firmware update bug; Google says a fix is rolling out.
