Chromecast (2nd Gen) And Audio Cannot Cast In ‘Untrusted’ Outage

Over the past few hours, owners of the Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio haven’t been able to Cast any audio or video content.

Seemingly, all users of those two Chromecast models are seeing the “Untrusted device: [name] couldn’t be verified. This could be caused by outdated device firmware” message. This warning appears in apps (like YouTube) after users select the devices in question as Cast targets.

You can only “close” the dialog box and cannot proceed. There are no end user workarounds, reboots, resets, etc. that will resolve this issue. The screensaver (Google Photos, art, photography, etc.) functionality with the time and weather still works.

Newer models, like the Chromecast (3rd gen) and Ultra, don’t seem to be impacted today.

This is presumably a bug because Google hasn’t made any support deprecation announcements for those devices like it did with the original Chromecast (1st gen) in May of 2023, though they still work. Hopefully, the company can send out a server-side fix in short order.

The Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio are two of Google’s oldest devices, with both announced at the same event in September of 2015. Like all other Chromecast devices, they are running 1.56.x firmware.

Updating…

Thanks Raphael

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