At the beginning of the week, owners of the Chromecast 2nd Gen and Chromecast Audio were presented with a message that suggested their devices had “outdated device firmware” and could not be used.

Spotify’s Android app is breaking Google Cast support for many users, and while fixes exist, the real solution still depends ...

Over the weekend, multiple second-generation Chromecast devices turned into fancy paperweights without warning. Users took to Reddit to express their frustration and confusion, and a trend soon became ...

What’s broken?: A Spotify bug hides Chromecast and other Google Cast devices from Connect, blocking direct streaming. Who’s affected?: The issue impacts multiple platforms and devices, from Nest ...

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Earlier this month, a serious error broke streaming on older Chromecast hardware. While Google developed a fix that started going out last week, it wouldn’t work if ...

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Google is now rolling out a fix to the Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio that resolves the “Untrusted” Casting outage/issue. Since Sunday, all users attempting to Cast content to their 2015 ...

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Google is making good on its promise to fix a recent issue with older Chromecast dongles that, for a period of time, made them appear either deprecated or otherwise bricked. At the time, we reported ...

Many people using older Chromecast devices experienced a shock in recent days when their units lost the ability to cast content. The company ended the brand last year, which led folks to think that ...

Unable to stream content on your bigger monitor or TV via Google Chromecast? This post highlights a few potential solutions to Google Chromecast streaming issue. Here ...