Android ships with a long list of Google apps, but a handful quietly deliver far more value than their icons suggest. I focus here on five underrated tools that can transform how you take notes, wake ...

One afternoon with Google Home's new automation editor was enough to solve months of annoying smart home issues ...

For the past several weeks, the Google Home app’s Routines creator and editor had an edge-to-edge bug on Android 16, and a fix is now here. As of Google Home 3.37, various buttons at the top and ...

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

One of the widgets offered by the Google app has been a shortcut for accessing your Home Routines. In the latest Google app beta, the Routines widget is no longer available. This loss arrives right in ...

Pixel owners on Android 16 are having edge-to-edge issues with the Routines creator and editor in the Google Home app. When creating or editing Routines in the Automations tab, some interface elements ...

You don't want to waste any time when completing tasks during your day. There are a lot of small, routine things you have to remember throughout your day, and many of them involve your smartphone, ...

App v4.8 enhances close-to-live camera event playback to cut “Video not available” errors, and adds new automation triggers and light controls. Google has rolled out a Google Home app update aimed at ...

Google Home is adding premade voice assistant actions that simplify automation setup inside the app. Users can now quickly trigger tasks like weather updates or music. The update also adds an option ...

Google Home’s mid-February update introduces pre-defined Google Home voice actions to the automation editor, making it faster and easier to build custom routines with options like announcing weather, ...