Need to change my wake phrase.

[Frustrated_User]

My Alexa was old and bricked, so I thought I would choose google this time and bought the nest speaker.  However, every time I use it, my phone also responds to the wake phrase.  This is super annoying, and I can't find a way to change it.  

If I had known that google was unable to include such a common sense feature, being able to change wake phrases, I would have bought a newer alexa instead.

I've been an android user for years, and was looking forward to setting up a smart home ecosystem w google products.  But smart home devices are supposed to solve problems, not create them.  Bout to sell this hunk of junk on ebay and seek a more functional alternative.

[MplsCustomer]

@Frustrated_User 

Is this Help topic of any assistance?

https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7257763?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

[Frustrated_User]

Thanks for the reply.  No, that doesn't solve my problem.  I have notices this functionality, but it is faulty.  Most of the time both devices respond.  And even when it does work, it often guesses wrong about which device I wanted to use.

Instead of expecting google to be able to read my mind, I would like to have a way to differentiate between devices.

[MplsCustomer]

On this blog post, Google Nest gives only one example for why a Nest Hub and a Pixel phone would both respond to "Hey Google": having different Google Accounts on the two devices:

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/FAQs-Using-Google-Assistant-and-Multiple-Devices/ba-p/47...

They say "there are a few reasons", but don't provide any other examples.

Google Nest also has this discussion thread, but it doesn't seem to have any answers: https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Speakers-and-Displays/Let-s-Discuss-Using-Google-Assistant-an...

We don't have the issue because we have iPhones and seldom have Google Assistant running on them.