The Home app arrives on Wear OS for smartwatches Google announced, at I/O this year. This is to give users quick access to smart home controls. The company only release a quick preview of the app at the time and did not share a release timeline, but the app is now finally available to users.
Google revealed the Google Home app for Wear OS on the Play Store. with the launch of the Pixel Watch on 6th October 2022. For smartwatches that are running Wear OS 3 or above, the app is available for all. You can directly fetch it by navigating to the Play Store on your smartwatch. Notably, the app is currently a Public Preview release, so it doesn’t support some devices. It’s also pretty barebones at the moment and only offers limited smart home controls.
You get access to all the rooms you’ve set up in the Google Home app on your phone on the app’s home screen, and you can tap on them to open device controls for each room. On the room page, you get sliders to adjust the brightness of connected lights. You can also tap on these sliders to turn the devices on or off. The volume of connected speakers and other media devices, and the temperature of connected thermostats or smart AC units.
Although, It’s unclear whether Google plans to add support for more device controls in the coming time. The app doesn’t let you do much else right now and presents you with a button to open the Google Home app on your phone for additional features.
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As the source says that Google Home app for Wear OS looks a lot like the current version of the smartphone app. It does not resemble the revamped UI that Google showcased recently.
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