How to change Alexa’s name and stop waking her up by accident

How to change Alexa’s name and stop waking her up by accident

I’d never given much thought to how to change Alexa’s name. Like most smart speaker owners, we’d set up the Amazon Echo Show 10 in our kitchen, accepted its default name, and spent years addressing it as Alexa. Then, while my partner was away for work, my son and I decided it would be funny to change its name without telling her. Amazon doesn’t let you choose any name you like, sadly, but Ziggy was one of the available options. We made the switc…