The Google Home app on Android and iOS acts as a central hub to control all your Google-compatible smart home devices. However, if you have a lot of products, the app's feed can get quite cluttered, making it difficult to quickly and easily control them.

To make your life easier, Google is taking cues from the smart home controls baked in Android 11+ and giving the Home app a complete revamp with a simpler layout that does away with all the clutter. Here's how the Google Home app will improve the experience of controlling your smart home devices.

1. Relevant Controls in the Home View

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The home view in the Home app will now show relevant status and controls related to your smart home devices to easily manage them. For example, the smart light controls in the main view will show their brightness percentage, which you can then adjust or toggle on/off in a jiffy.

Similarly, you'll be able to see and adjust your smart speaker's volume at a glance right when you open the Home app. This way, you'll be able to quickly and easily control your devices instead of having to search for the appropriate option first.

2. Centralized Privacy Settings

In its announcement on the Google Nest Community, the company notes that the settings menu in the Google Home app will house a new privacy section that will act as a central point for managing your privacy across your smart devices and voice assistant. You'll be able to manage and view your Assistant-related data, privacy controls, and home activity from here.

The new privacy settings page will also let you control presence sensing across compatible smart home devices, so you can set which devices can trigger your Home or Away routines when they detect someone.

3. New Home Feed

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The home feed in the Home app will get a "clutter-free layout" in the coming weeks. It will automatically sort the most important and recent events at the top, with similar events being grouped together so that you don't have to scroll through a list of repetitive items.

This will help in quickly bringing you up to speed on the events that have happened in your home or require your urgent attention.

A Better Smart Home Experience

These improvements from Google to its Home app will help deliver a better smart home experience, as you'll be able to easily manage all your devices. They cut the noise and clutter and ensure you are able to access easy-to-use device controls quickly.