A brand new Residence Controls screensaver in Android 15 turns your pill or telephone into a sensible dwelling dashboard, the place you’ll be able to management units with a single faucet. The interactive screensaver does away with the necessity to unlock your gadget or faucet a shortcut button, making controlling your related lights or cameras a lot faster.
The screensaver seems when your gadget is docked or related to a charger. It really works with the Google Residence app and shows your Favorites tab, which will be custom-made to indicate your most used units, similar to particular person good lights, thermostats, and safety digicam feeds. The tab additionally has shortcuts to entry all of your cameras, lights, and local weather management units.
I examined it on Google’s Pixel Pill and will faucet the controls straight to show off the sunshine or view a dwell digicam feed. Whereas the Pixel Pill has a house shortcut button that will get you to the identical display screen, this removes that step, making it easier and sooner.
Google has been placing its Favorites tab in plenty of new locations just lately, together with on Google TV, the place a Residence Management Panel can seem on the precise aspect of the display screen, and on Android telephones and Pixel Watches, with a Favorites widget. All these interfaces simply make it simpler to regulate your good dwelling, which is an efficient factor.
Android 15 additionally features a few different upgrades for the Pixel Pill:
