You can also enable picture-in-picture live camera viewing so you can keep an eye on your kids while you’re cooking dinner. It even has a Blue Apron option that helps you order meal kits and shows you step-by-step recipe instructions.Ī 'smart home favorites' widget helps you view and control your favorite smart home devices. There's also a 'What to Eat' widget that houses recipe recommendations from sources like Allrecipes and Epicurious, restaurant delivery choices and more. Those widgets include useful applications like a family calendar, a shared shopping list, sticky notes, to-do lists and reminders. Think of the whole thing as a multifunctional family bulletin board.
You can configure it so that part of the screen has the usual rotating array of ambient content like headlines and weather updates (those who already have an Echo Show will be familiar with this), while the rest of it can be customized with various Alexa widgets. Since it has such a large display, Amazon has introduced a redesigned home screen to go along with the Echo Show 15.
