Touch Controls Coming Back to Google Home Mini
When the Google Home Mini was announced back in October, one of the highlighted features of the device were touch controls. These controls would all you to not only adjust the volume with a touch of either side of the device, but would also allow you to long press to play or pause music amongst other things. Unfortunately it was discovered that the touch controls could be activated without actually touching them, prompting Google to disable the feature (save the volume up and down side touches) via a software update.
It appears now that Google has sorted out a potential resolution and will soon be re-enabling the touch controls of the Google Home Mini by bringing those to the side touch areas. There is now a software update available to those in the Home Preview Program which is enabling long presses to pause or play music while short presses of the side buttons will remain volume control. The top tap control however remains disabled and likely will remain so given it is as much a hardware challenge as it is software.