Hydrogels have been widely applied in the fields of biology, medicine, soft materials and flexible/wearable devices owing to their superior biocompatibilities and their versatile physicochemical properties. Although multiple chemical and physical methods have been proposed to functionalize hydrogels, to endow hydrogels multi-properties/functionalities with least components is still a challenge. In this paper, we describe a simple and effective method to functionalize polymeric hydrogels using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)@Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs), as-prepared metallogel exhibited good self-healing ability, ionic conductivity, photo-thermal transformability and magnetic field responsiveness. A triple functional sensor was accordingly built up using this metallogel, proving its universal viability in functional devices.