Google Home gets a makeover: new media controls and personalized user profiles

Google demonstrates its constant support for the different applications and services it offers in the mobile world and updates the application dedicated to home automation management and control. The Google Home application has indeed received a new update concerning multimedia controls, and the future function of managing access to your home by external users. The update that has just been mentioned therefore concerns the Google Home application for devices, and therefore arrives on both Android and iOS. Among the many functions that Google Home now offers, we also find the possibility of managing multimedia content played with one of the devices connected to your smart home. For example, a piece of music played on your smart speaker connected to Google Home will also be controllable from your smartphone, that is to say from the Google Home application. The innovation introduced by Google concerns the graphical interface of this section of the Home application. Previously we could control multimedia content through an interface consisting of an arc, to customize the volume, and several buttons placed below to stop playback, open the application associated with playback and other options that may be available for the controlled device. The new interface, however, is much more in line with Android’s new Material You design. We then see the cover associated with the content currently playing, a rectangular slider to control the volume, very similar to Android’s volume control, and the same quick options that we had available in the previous interface.

It doesn’t stop there with the Google Home news. In fact, Google plans to release a feature that will allow you to share access to your smart home even with external members subject to specific restrictions. It will then be possible to create access profiles with authorization to control only specific devices. This is therefore a new level of access to Google Home, different from the Family group which has been present for a few years now. This innovation, like that concerning multimedia controls that we described above, was announced by Google but is not yet available worldwide. BigG said it would be released “soon.”