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Google Home Bug Causes Data Download Issues

Updated 2026-10-20 10:20 UTC 1 source Negative

Some Google Home Speaker owners are experiencing an issue where hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their devices in the background. The bug, reported by multiple sources over the last week, may be due to a failure in the speakers' software.

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Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data

Some Google Home Speaker owners are currently experiencing an issue in which hundreds of gigabytes of data are being continuously downloaded to their device in the background. The bug, reported by 9to5Google and several Reddit users over the last week, may be caused by the speakers failing to correc

2026-10-20 10:16 UTC