A few new features and minor upgrades make Google Assistant and Google Home for Android significantly better. In the past few days, some innovations for Google Assistant and Google Home have been rolled out again.
Google has upgraded its services and functions around the smart home. It is not unusual that only a part of the innovations is announced at all. In some cases, users themselves have come across innovations.
New in the Home app is, for example, the revised feed and also the new display of the set up smart home. Devices, where it is possible, can operate part of the control directly from the start page. The large switches allow you to swipe in both directions. For example, to change the volume or brightness of the respective device.
In the area of processes, which you set up and manage via the Home app, several innovations have also appeared. This includes the delayed start, which can now even be adjusted to the second. In addition, you can now rename created processes independently of the hotword trigger.
Something is also happening directly with Google Assistant. The voice typing introduced with Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro is intended to be deployed on older devices in the Pixel series. The first users have already been able to use the more extensive voice input on Pixel 5 and Co. However, the best or fast performance is only possible on the latest models equipped with Google Tensor.
Google removes legacy issues
But not only new things are there because old functions are partially stamped out. Snapshot, which was considered a personal feed, is to disappear completely from the app. There is no official successor. But Google is turning the live display in the Pixel Launcher into a modern continuation of the snapshot functions. Numerous innovations have been made available for this purpose in recent weeks.