Google Residence, the companion app for controlling your sensible residence gadgets, is getting a significant replace, bringing a revamped residence view, new privateness controls, and extra.
Essentially the most notable change the brand new replace brings is a redesigned residence view that makes it simpler to manage your sensible gadgets in fewer steps. We noticed this redesign final week in an APK teardown of the Google Residence app. Nevertheless, it wasn’t accessible to end-users on the time. Google says it’s now rolling out this revamped residence view to everybody on Android and iOS.
The brand new UI takes inspiration from Android 11’s sensible residence controls web page. It swaps giant gadget icons with rectangular tiles with rounded corners. The tiles are interactive, permitting you to regulate issues like quantity and brightness by sliding left or proper. And simply as earlier than, you may nonetheless faucet on the buttons to show a tool on or off. In the meantime, long-pressing a button brings up further controls.
“On each Android and iOS, the brand new controls allow you to rapidly discover and perceive the standing of the gadgets in your house so you may dim your appropriate lights or change the music quantity in a snap. It’s also possible to faucet to show a tool on or off, slide left or proper to make changes, and lengthy press for extra controls,” wrote Google in a weblog submit.
Subsequent up, the Google Residence app is getting new privateness controls in Settings that can permit customers to manage residence exercise and Assistant information settings proper from inside the app.
“Handle your family’s settings, together with presence sensing to manage which gadgets might help detect if somebody’s residence with the intention to begin Residence & Away routines. Browse your information, together with your own home exercise and your information within the Assistant.”
Lastly, the Google Residence app will get a brand new replace that can routinely kind your own home’s latest and most essential occasions in an up to date structure. Occasions that occur across the similar time shall be grouped collectively, so customers don’t need to scroll by a listing of repetitive occasions. Google says this function will roll out later this month.
Supply: Google Nest Group