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TL;DR
- The new Google Home Speaker is failing to set up for a lot of people.
- The setup won’t go through, forcing them to restart, and fail, again.
- Google has acknowledged the issue and is currently “investigating” it, but has no further update yet.
To say that the new Google Home Speaker had a rocky start would be an understatement. It arrived several months after Google first previewed it at the Pixel 10 launch last year, was unboxed earlier than intended, and was even put up on clearance by a naive retail employee. Despite the challenges, the new Speaker powered through and started reaching users in time, only for the setup to put them through the wringer again.
Several people who’ve purchased the new Google Home Speaker have reported running into an error while setting it up. According to several narratives on Reddit, many people trying to set the Speaker up for the first time have been running into the following error:
