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Change connected device name

You can change the names of devices connected to your Wi-Fi network. Some devices have names that are hard to identify (for example, a printer might be displayed as “a738b00002”) or 2 similar devices might have the same name. When you change a device name it will be visible to all owners and managers of your Wi-Fi network in the Google Home app.

  1. Open the Google Home app .
  2. Tap Favorites  and then Wifi  and then Devices.
  3. Tap the device that you want to change the name of.
  4. Rename your device. Your changes will autosave.

Note: This will only change how the device’s name appears in the app. To change the name back in the app to the original device name, delete the text.

Learn more about identifying device names.

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