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

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Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityGoogle 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 under a new Home tab, and push settings up to the account switcher. There’s a permanent new “Ask Home” text box at the top to talk to your smart home via Gemini, ask about security camera activity and device statuses, execute actions, or even demand help when building automations.All of this sounds great, and I can’t wait to test it out, but I can’t help but feel like Google is still missing out on more important and overdue updates to the Home app. Talking to Gemini is cool, but it doesn’t check all the boxes of what I expect from my smart home app. Instead, I wish Google would work on these six features.