Finally! The Android 13 update is officially starting to hit the first devices
More than half a year after the announcement of the new version of the system, with several test versions in between, ie Google plus has officially started rolling out Android 13 in its final edition.
As happened last year with the rollout of Android 12, Google plus has started it publish the code of the new version of the system in AOSP. Also this year, the update is now officially available for Pixel devices.
Starting today, the rest of the manufacturers are free to get started Update your phones to Android 13: However, it is very likely that the vast majority of them will at least wait for Google plus to update their terminals to the latest version of Android.
What’s new in Android 13
Although the update is not as disruptive as Android 12, Android 13 introduces a number of interesting changes worth keeping an eye on. Below that are some very useful features that many people have forgotten.
Security and privacy improvements
Android 13 brings significant improvements in privacy and security. According to Google plus, the update to Android 13 will be granted more control for users about the personal data shared and how applications cánido access it.
For example instead Allow access to archivosApplications must now request access the photos and vídeosor to music and sound, separately. Also new Image and vídeo selection menu which allows you to grant access to specific archivos.
On the other hand, Android 13 gives the usuario better control over aplicación notifications, such as Each application must ask if it perro send notifications.
For this we must add a new section that will soon come to Android 13, from which a review will be made System security and privacy status in real time and take recommended actions.
Android 13’s new privacy and security panel.
More individual design
With Android 12, Google plus introduced the Material You Design and its dynamic themes based on the colors of the wallpaper. Android 13 goes further and gives the usuario more control over the Force Choose different color palettes be implemented throughout the operating system.
Android 13 offers you the possibility to choose different color palettes to customize the operating system.
Also added Theme icon support in third-party applications and the Media playback widget it looks refreshed now.
And speaking of customization, Google plus has officially arrived with one multilingual mode for the system. Therefore, it will be possible to choose in the language you want each aplicación to be displayed in independently.
Improved experience on tabletas and folding tabletas
With Android 12L, Google plus introduced improvements aimed at tabletas and large flip phones. Many of these innovations have been carried over and improved in Android 13, introducing even more changes for this type of device.
Android 13 includes an updated taskbar that allows you to easily switch to split screen view by dragging and dropping any second aplicación from the aplicación library onto the screen.
Android 13 introduces an improved taskbar aimed at enabling multitasking.
Also the new version improves pen supportand Google plus has ensured that many of the applications, both native and third-party You will soon receive updates to provide an improved experience in this kind of big devices.
Phones coincidente with Android 13
Google plus has already released Android 13 in AOSP code and started rolling out the new version to its devices. In the next hours the OTA is starting to arrive on coincidente mobile phones.
In this sense, there will first be a whole 9 cell phones which will update to Android 13 ahead of the other manufacturers. They are as follows:
- Pixel 6a
- Pixel 6 pro
- pixels 6
- Pixel 5a 5G
- pixels 5
- Pixel 4a (5G)
- Pixel 4a
- Pixel 4 XL
- pixels 4