Apparently, the Google developer team has decided these days to devote themselves particularly to improving the experience offered by the Google Home app and Google Assistant and, after the introduction of the possibility to reduce the minimum time of delays, arrives another little news for routines.
We refer to the introduction of a special edit button (represented by a pencil) next to the name of a routine when one is opened, thanks to which users have the possibility to assign any name to it.
The Google Assistant routines are enriched with another novelty
Recall that up to now the routines were named according to the sentence set as a trigger and this in many cases could lead to a particularly long name while an abbreviation represents a more than sufficient (as well as convenient) solution for the purposes of a list.
The most important change that Google Home app users have identified is that the system no longer needs an accompanying phrase to get a non-generic name (“New Routine”), as you can simply set a trigger “When it’s time” and immediately give it the desired name.
Users will therefore have ample autonomy in deciding the name to assign to their custom routines and the only limit is represented by the names of the predefined ones (such as Hello, I’m at home, etc.), which cannot be used.
Perhaps in the future, the Mountain View giant, again as part of this policy of slow but continuous improvement of the experience guaranteed by its ecosystem dedicated to smart home devices, could also introduce the possibility for users to choose the icons to use for the custom routines.
To date, the new feature relating to the ability to rename routines has already been implemented for many users of Google Home for Android and iOS.
You can download the latest available versions of the application from APK Mirror.