Google admits that its Google Home app for managing smart home devices has not offered the best experience, and it now aims to change that. On Wednesday, alongside new Nest devices and an upcoming Google Home smart speaker, the tech giant also unveiled a redesigned version of the Google Home app that it promises will work better, centralize device management, and bring its AI assistant Gemini AI into the experience.

While AI may be the headline feature about what’s new with the Google Home app, the app itself has had an overhaul, in design, performance, and reliability, Google claims.

“I want to be very direct, the Google Home app has not been the experience that we’ve always wanted it to be,” Anish Kattukaran, Chief Product Officer at Google Home and Nest, told reporters in a briefing

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