Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR We’ve spotted a major redesign in the works for the Google Home, with Gemini at its center. The update will introduce “Gemini for Home,” replacing Google Assistant with an AI for more conversational interactions and advanced controls. The app’s layout is being simplified, with the “Favorites” tab renamed to “Home” and a new “Ask Home” search bar to access Gemini. Google is gearing up for some big changes to Google Home. New hardware is coming in the form of a new Gemini-powered Nest speaker, a new Nest Doorbell, and Nest Cams. Then there’s Gemini making its way to Google Home on October 1. As part of the rollout, we’ve now spotted a redesign of the Google Home app on Android, complete with a new UI and more changes. Google Home v3.41.50.3 includes code for a significant app redesign. We’ve managed to enable the redesigned Google Home experience to give you an early look ahead of its launch. The intro screen for this upcoming update will introduce Gemini for Home. The star of the show is Gemini, of course, which is replacing Google Assistant on your smart home devices. You also get access to Gemini Live for natural, free-flowing conversations. The intro screen further mentions that you can simply “Ask Home.” You can describe what you want to automate, or ask to search your video and home history. Users will also be able to see detailed AI event descriptions, notifications, and daily summaries. The intro screen also mentions that the upcoming “Google Home Speaker” will offer 360 audio. Some of the features will require the upcoming “Google Home Premium” subscription. Moving on to the redesign, the Favorites tab within the Google Home app has been renamed to “Home.” Google Home - Current UI Google Home - Upcoming UI Google Home - Upcoming UI Google has also removed the Devices and Settings tab. You can still access your devices by tapping on the grid icon in the Home tab for “All devices.” If you look closely at the UI present in the intro screen screenshots at the beginning of this article, you will notice that the Google Home app’s Home page also has icons for video and thermometer, likely related to the upcoming Nest devices. Further, as we spotted back in June, users will be able to pin Outdoor AQI and Outdoor Temperature as favorites on their Google Home landing screen. Data is displayed for the address you set as your Home address in Google Home. Google Home - Upcoming UI Google Home - Upcoming UI Keen-eyed readers would have already spotted that the new UI has a cleaner header. The Settings, Inbox, and Lab icons (for Google Home Preview features) have been moved out of the header and into the account switcher page. Google Home - Current UI Google Home - Current UI Google Home - Upcoming UI Google Home - Upcoming UI The Activity and Automations tabs have been reordered and come with new icons. They also get a slightly different look. There’s possibly a “Create” button present in the upcoming UI too, but we couldn’t see it yet, possibly due to some activation issues on our end. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? Set us as a favorite source in Google Discover to support us and make sure you never miss our latest exclusive reports, expert analysis, and much more. You can also set us as a preferred source in Google Search — find out more here. The UI for adding new devices through a QR code scan has also received some changes. You don’t get a full-screen preview anymore, but the smaller preview helps keep attention and focus on the scanner area. Google Home - Current UI Google Home - Upcoming UI If you’re wondering how Gemini comes into play in this new UI, it will be through the big search bar at the top, which includes hint text “Ask Home.” When users access Gemini within the Google Home app for the first time, they will have to accept new terms and conditions. Once they do so, they will get a new “Ask Home” conversation screen. Google Home - Upcoming UI The Ask Home conversation screen isn’t currently functional for us, which is expected. Users will be able to thumbs up and down the responses to provide feedback. They will also be able to regenerate the response using the refresh button. There’s another refresh button at the top right, which starts a new conversation. You can see all the upcoming changes to the Google Home app in this early hands-on video: These changes are not yet live in the Google Home app. Given that Google has confirmed an announcement for October 1, you can expect the changes to be shown off and rolled out afterward. ⚠️ An APK teardown helps predict features that may arrive on a service in the future based on work-in-progress code. However, it is possible that such predicted features may not make it to a public release. Follow