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Home App: How to re-arrange devices? (Devices Tab)

-Martin- — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:23:51 GMT

How can I re-arrange devices within a room, on the Devices tab?

I have attached a screenshot below. You can see that the devices are not in alphabetical order ('Bedroom A/C' comes after 'Bedroom TV', and the 'Freeview' device comes after 'Smart Plug...' but I can't figure out how to re-order them manually 🤔

I tried...

Tap-and-holding on a device
Going to device settings for the one I want to move
Going to the Settings tab
Tapping my user icon (top right)

... but can't seem to find any option to re-arrange devices.

Can someone point me in the right direction please for how to do this?

Thanks!

Re: Home App: How to re-arrange devices? (Devices Tab)

David_K — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:38:31 GMT

You can't reorder them on the devices tab unfortunately, but you can reorder them on the favourites tab, by tapping the "Reorder" button at the bottom.

Re: Home App: How to re-arrange devices? (Devices Tab)

-Martin- — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:00:49 GMT

Thanks @David_K -- While that isn't the best news to hear, I do appreciate the answer nonetheless, and it saves me spending any more time trying to hunt through the menu for an option that doesn't actually exist.

I will say it's disappointing that Google have seemedly only half-bothered to implement device ordering (by contrast, the Smart Life / Tuya app has had it for literally years 🙄)... Hopefully they will add this to the Devices tab in the near future -- or as a minimum, auto-order devices alphabetically as the current state of: "devices are ordered randomly and you can't change it" is not a great user experience!

Anyway, I am rambling! 🙂 -- Thanks again for confirming that this isn't possible @David_K. @Google please add this soon!

PS - Thanks RE: Favourites tab, I did this a while ago but as I dont want to put ALL my devices in favs, I do end up using the Devices tab a fair amount of time / possibly more than favourites even TBH. But a good tip for anyone else reading this in the future anyway.

Re: Home App: How to re-arrange devices? (Devices Tab)

David_K — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:49:15 GMT

Agreed! I’d encourage you to also send this feedback directly to Google.