Android 15’s Home Controls screensaver turns your device into a smart home

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• Google has added a new screensaver called Home Controls to Android 15.
• Home Controls lets you quickly access your smart home controls as a screensaver.
• The feature isn’t exclusive to the Google Home app or Pixel devices.

Google released the source code for Android 15 last month, giving us a peek at how the new features in the latest operating system work under-the-hood. The Android 15 update introduces several new features such as Private Space, partial screen sharing, app pairs, and a new screensaver called Home Controls. Home Controls is a very useful screensaver that turns your Android device into a smart home dashboard when it’s docked, and after digging into how it works, I’ve realized it’s even better than I initially thought.

In case you aren’t aware, Google introduced the Home Controls screensaver in the third beta of Android 15 released back in June. The screensaver can be found under Settings > Display & touch > Screen saver on Pixel devices; on other Android devices, the location in Settings for changing the screen saver may differ (if it exists at all).




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