You’ve heard of Now Brief, but Google Home could soon get Home Brief (APK teardown)

by dbadmin | Sep 29, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Home, News

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown of the Google Home app has uncovered a Home Brief feature. This seems to be Google’s name for security-related summaries in the smart home app. We’ve also uncovered more details about the...

Google Home’s major redesign is already rolling out, but not on Android

by dbadmin | Sep 29, 2025 | Google, Google Home, News

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The redesigned Google Home app seems to have started rolling out on iOS. An iPhone 16 Pro Max user posted screenshots of the app’s new UI, complete with Gemini, the new layout, and the “Ask Home” search bar. Looks like...

6 crucial features the new Google Home app needs to win me back

by dbadmin | Sep 28, 2025 | Android apps, Features, Google, Google Gemini, Google Home, Smart Home

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google is working on a brand new Home app with Gemini integration. My colleague AssembleDebug was able to trigger that new interface and showed off the spiffy redesign with streamlined tabs that merge favorites and devices...

Google Home finally has powerful automations, but I’m still not using them

by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Android apps, Features, Google, Google Home, Smart Home

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority For the last week, I’ve been testing out Google Home’s powerful new automation editor and trying to see if it could perform the kind of routines I need in my smart home. I was happy to see a few interesting additions, like...

We’re about to witness a critical moment for Google Home

by dbadmin | Sep 26, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Gemini, Google Home

It’s fair to say that Google Home is in an awkward place right now — and it has been for a while. Google’s smart home ecosystem was on a hot streak for a few years, but between stagnant hardware releases and mounting complaints about bugs and glitches, it’s easy to...

5 things the new Google Home Speaker needs before I’ll buy it

by dbadmin | Sep 24, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Home

It’s been a while since Google released a new smart speaker, but that’s set to change in the very near future. Just about five years after the Nest Audio launched in October 2020, word on the street is that Google will soon debut the “Google Home Speaker.” Google...