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TL;DR
- The Google Home app is being updated with a new and improved camera UI along with other changes.
- Users on Reddit report usability issues with Google Home’s camera controls on the web; It’s unclear whether the issues are related to this week’s update.
Google is rolling out an update to the Google Home app that will improve the smart home experience in several ways, especially for users with cameras. The release notes for the latest Google Home update include improvements like simplified camera settings and search, as well as a new tool to fix some offline device errors.
Updated notes were published a blog post This week. The main improvement is a “modern” camera UI that includes dynamic themes on the camera event timeline, as well as AI-generated event details for Google Home Premium subscribers on the Advanced plan.
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Other improvements to the camera experience include AI description of video events that should be more concise (without “unnecessary clutter”) and search results loading faster in the Ask Home interface. The camera settings have also been reorganized, with some features – Gemini for Home, familiar face detection – easier to find.
Google has also added prompts to pages on third-party devices that are not responding because links between accounts have expired, ideally providing a quick and easy solution to an often frustrating problem to diagnose.
Finally, the media controls UI in the Google Home app has been updated to display album art more prominently when playing music.
User reports on Reddit This week it was noted that the web view of Google Home-connected cameras was not working correctly, with the camera feed becoming unresponsive or switching back and forth between online and offline states. It’s unclear whether this unusual behavior is related to this week’s Home app update.
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