By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2026-03-02 20:05:00
Google has announced a number of updates to the Gemini for Home experience that include various fixes and improvements to voice controls for your smart home, addressing quite a few widespread and niche complaints.
Google’s Chief Product Officer over Home, Anish Kattukaran, announced on Twitter/X. There are quite a few fixes coming, including fixes to how Gemini for Home voice commands handle things such as turning off lights in a room and using context to better address the intent of your voice commands.
Kattukaran detailed the following updates:
- Improved isolation: “Turn off the kitchen” now targets just lights, not plugs and unassigned devices
- Fixed targeting: “Turn off all the lights” now only executes in your home instead of targeting more than one
- Device context: Controls now understand what a device is even if that context is not in the device name
- Location context: Gemini for Home now “strictly” uses your home address from…
