Amazon’s Alexa Home Map is getting a smarter 3D redesign

October 28, 2026 Jess Weatherbed

The new Alexa Home Map displayed on an Echo Show.
It’ll use compatible Ring cameras to show you animations of people and cars moving outside your home. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

Amazon's smart home map interface that shows you where all your connected devices are has been overhauled with new graphics, features, and dynamic effects. The new Alexa Home Map is now an interactive 3D view of not just everything that's inside your property, but outside of it too - using compatible Ring cameras to provide a 360-degree view that animates cars and people moving nearby.

Even just visually speaking, it's a considerable upgrade from the 2D map that was introduced to the Alexa app in 2023. This new version looks similar to Samsung's SmartThings Map View, and makes it easier to see exactly where all of your Echo devices, Ring an …

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