Google announced its redesigned Google Home app in October 2022. The company started rolling it out to a handful of users in a limited Public Preview program available to all Android devices. During the Google I/O 2023 keynote this year, they announced a redesign along with the Google Pixel 7A, Pixel Fold, and Pixel Tablet.
Several new things come with the Redesigned Google Home app, including a new Home Screen that shows your devices, and recent activity, manages and creates new routines. You can control your devices and get help and support. The new app has five tabs at the bottom of the screen that show your favourites, Devices, Automation, Activity, and Settings. All these tabs are now more streamlined than the previous app version.
- Favourites: It has a card for Smart home devices, actions, automation, media control, and live streams for security cameras. This has always been particularly popular and adds more to a single place for easy access. This new tab will give users quick access to their most-used devices.
- Devices: Shows all smart home devices. This devices tab lists all your home products, categorized by room, making it easier to access and control your needed devices.
- Automation: Create and manage automation. This allows you to perform actions that your device takes automatically. The automation tab will display all your routines and allow you to modify the routine. For example, you could create an automation that turns on your lights when you come home or turn off your thermostat when you leave.
- Activity: It shows your activity’s history in the Google Home app. The tab notifies you about your events history of your activity in the Google Home app, such as a new member joining your home or a new smart home product being detected in the network. This includes turning on a device, changing a setting, or creating a new automation.
- Settings: It allows you to change the settings for the Google Home app.
You can install the latest Redesigned Google Home via the Play Store if you own a Samsung phone or tablet. To update the older version of Google Home and your app to the latest version, navigate to the Play Store, head over to the Profile Icon, tap on Manage App & device, and click on the update all button. Google and Samsung have brought support for Matter Smart Home Standard, which makes it easier to connect and control smart home devices from different manufacturers to their Smart home and announced deep integration with each other’s Smart home platforms.
How to Reorder and Edit Favorite Devices in Google Home App
The new Google Home App has a Favorites page. Here is a guide that will help you reorder and edit. The new Google Home redesign has five sections: Favorites, Devices, Automation, Activity, and Settings. This includes favourites, and the Device section holds your lights, camera, and other smart home products.
- Open the Google Home app, then tap on the Favorites tab.
- From there, scroll to the bottom and tap on the Reorder button.
- Now, start dragging and dropping the tiles to reorder them.
- To edit a device, tap on the tile and make your changes.
- Once you’re done, tap on the Save button.
With this, you can organize the Quick-access products based on your preference. The products you use most should appear at the top, and less frequently used products should be toward the middle and bottom.
How to add and remove devices from Google Home:
- Open the Google Home app, then tap on the Favorites section.
- Scroll down to the bottom and tap on Edit. Select the action, automation, or device to add to the Favorites page.
- Then, tap on Save.
To reorder the devices, tap the Favorites section in the Google Home app and scroll to the bottom. Then, hit Reorder. Next, drag any tiles around to order them and hit Save.
- Open Google Home, tap the Favorites section, and scroll to the bottom. Then, tap on Reorder.
- Start dragging any tiles around to order them based on your preference, and then tap on Save.
Last year in November, the program was open for users to test the update. With the support of new devices, including the original Nest Camera and Home Panels for Pixel users that give you one-tap access to your Google Home, it started updating for all users around the globe. Over half a million people signed up to test the app. As for the Nest Team, they say that they have made over 50 improvements to the app.
Apart from the Google Home app, the company also made an announcement for Wear OS users. This includes accessing Favorites, improved camera notifications with animation previews, and support for the original Nest Camera, which will be supported within the app soon. This is scheduled to release in July in Public Preview. Next month, with the new feature drop, Google will introduce an exclusive home panel for Pixel. Also, note that new Home users will see the app update on iOS and Android this week.
