Alexa represents the solution designed by Amazon to allow its users to manage their respective smart home ecosystems, control the playback of multimedia content and obtain the desired information, all with the primary objective of making everyone’s life activities easier. days.
The latest news from Amazon Alexa
The Amazon team wanted to focus on the latest innovations designed to make this application even better, such as Favorites , a feature that is now available directly on the homepage and allows quick access to the most used devices and features.
Another new feature is the Shortcuts bar on the home page, thanks to which users can count on a system that organizes devices by category and shows the most popular Alexa features, all with the possibility of making customizations and viewing the status of connected devices.
And again, among the new features there are a simplified activities section (with less space occupied on the homepage), the possibility of viewing up to 6 snapshots captured by the camera on the home page (a Ring Protect subscription is required) and the possibility of speaking or type to chat with Alexa by tapping the blue chat indicator on any page in the app.
Finally, among the most interesting new features, the Amazon team reports the possibility of using new filters on the page dedicated to devices (searching for them by type or sorting them based on the most recent, the oldest or in alphabetical order) and the Map View , feature that allows iOS users to create a digital version of their apartment to quickly control various devices.