Google Home is working on AI insights, a new UI for creating routines, and

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• Google appears to be prepping a number of changes for the Home app on Android, including AI-powered insights.
• How you create new routines and automations could be getting a UI makeover, including the addition of explicit conditions for operation.
• Progress continues on Home’s vacation mode, letting you schedule automations for when away for an extended trip.

With an app like Google Home, so intimately tied to our ecosystem of smart home devices, it’s easy to think of progress in terms of hardware support: Many of the updates we see the app receive are designed to deliver compatibility with more and more devices, like we just saw happen with the Nest Protect smoke detector. But that’s far from the only way that Home evolves, and this week we’ve uncovered a few new directions where Google could be about to bring some new functionality to its smart home hub.

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