The Google Home widget for Android gives you faster access to your smart home devices

Google Home is one of the largest smart home platforms in the world, and Google adds new and useful features to it every few months. The upcoming Google Home feature brings the widget to Android devices, allowing you to control your most important smart home device from your phone’s home screen.

Google Home will receive a new widget for controlling smart home devices

Last year, Google unveiled a new widget for Google Home called “Favorites” that allows you to quickly control your smart home devices. The widget then appeared a few weeks ago at Google I/O 2024. Now, 9To5Google has discovered the Favorites widget and launched it on the device. According to Google it offers “Quick control over your activities, automation and devices” Displays your favorite smart home devices in a grid format.

When you place the “Favorites” widget on your home screen, you’re asked whether you want it to sync with your existing favorite devices tab in the Google Home app, or whether you want to select other devices. On the widget settings screen, you can select your home and change the order of devices visible in the grid.

This new widget displays your home name in the top left corner and a refresh button on the right. By default it has a 5 x 3 grid, but it can take up the entire screen if you resize it. Also includes the Material You theme. This widget may be available soon for Android users, but is currently not active in version 3.18 of the app.

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On your Samsung smartphone or tablet, you can quickly access and turn off/on your favorite smart home devices using the Device Control section in the quick settings area. When you get the new Google Home widget, you’ll have an additional way to access and control your smart home devices.