Everything you need to know about the latest major operating system update, Android 13
After Android 12 came Android 13. The next major operating system update is ready and its final version is now officially available for download.
Gradually, more and more phones update to the new Android version. If that’s the case with the device you’re using, you’ll probably be interested to know What’s new in Android 13 and what to expect when your device is officially updated to the new version.
What’s new in Android 13
Android 13 is the version that comes after Android 12L, so it includes all the improvements and changes aimed at folding devices and big screens that we have already seen in the previous version.
But also Android 13 it contains its own messages which we will review below:
Security and privacy improvements
Android 13 introduces improvements focused on security and privacy, including a new one image selection menu This allows you to share images and vídeos more securely with the aplicaciones.
The new Wi-Fi authorization also gives the opportunity to do so escoge whether an aplicación perro access this part of the system or not.
Google plus also grants more control over the personal data shared with aplicaciones, including proactive features to help people stay safer. Now, even after a short period of time, the system clears the history of the clipboard, so the applications cannot see the information previously copied.
It is also introduced new page with unified security and privacy settingswith all the options and measures available to the usuario.
Android 13’s new unified security and privacy menu.
Custom quick settings
Additionally, Android 13 introduces new tools for developers. For example the possibility Develop custom tiles for quick settings menu.
Custom icons for each aplicación
With the launch of Android 12 and Material You to the Pixel, Google plus gave users the power to do so Customize your home screens with icons that use system colors. This feature was initially only available on Google plus aplicación icons.
Now Google plus has expanded this feature to allow developers to do so Add support for themed icons to your aplicaciones.
Third-party aplicación icons cánido follow the system theme in Android 13
Tap “To transfer”.
It is one of the latest Android 13 news Tap “To transfer”.. This feature gives users the ability Send content to nearby devices, or play vídeo or audio in coincidente devices. NFC and Ultra Wide Band systems are expected to be used to bring this feature to life.
NFC payments for multiple users
Although Android support is included multi-usuario For several years, this system has had a strange limitation: Only a primary usuario perro use NFC payments.
On Android 13, Support for multi-usuario NFC payments will be includedso that each of the device users perro configure their own mobile payment system.
“Panlingual” mode.
Another function that has been confirmed in practice is the so-called “panlingual” method. Thanks to this feature, users cánido do that Select the language in which each application should be displayed independently.
Android 13 allows you to choose the language you want all applications to be displayed in.
Permission to view ads
Aplicación ads cánido be very useful… but they cánido also be very annoying. Google plus knows this, and for that reason Starting with Android 13, aplicaciones must ask the usuario for permission Espectáculo ads on first use. The usuario will always have the option revoke this permission with applications.
More colors
Android 12 introduced automatic themes based on background colors and a new theme language called Material You.
Android 13 will introduce support for even more colorful themes.
As far as we know, at least Android 13 will be included four different color styles to choose from among them, each with a more or less “vivid” palette of tones.
They have a QR code scanner
surprisingly QR codes They have become more relevant than ever in recent years. Android 13 will take advantage of this quick access to QR code reader on lock screen and in quick settings.
Bluetooth LE audio support
Thanks to Android 13, the battery of your Bluetooth headphones will last longer. The new version of the system It will include support for the Bluetooth LE Audio codecmore efficient in playing content without sacrificing quality.
New sound control menu
In Android 13 will be the audio control menu Fully renovated. In this menu you cánido select the audio output of the multimedia content – for example a Bluetooth headset or the phone’s own loudspeaker – as well as control the playback of the multimedia content.
The new menu emplees the cover of the album, song or podcast as the background and adds new graphic elements, which cánido be seen in the image below these lines.
The audio control widget has been redesigned in Android 13.
tablet improvements
Google plus has focused on tabletas running Android 13, and it’s promising ensure a more consistent experience in this kind of big devices. Which, on the other hand, makes sense since there will be a Pixel tablet coming in 2023, the design of which we got to see during Google plus I/O 2022.
Android 13 coincidente models
Google plus teléfonos inteligentes are the first to update to the new version of the system, starting with Pixel 4. Hence the List of Pixel models coincidente with Android 13 even so:
- Google plus Pixel 6a
- Google plus Pixel 6 Pro
- Google plus Pixel 6
- Google plus Pixel 5a (5G)
- Google plus Pixel 5
- Google plus Pixel 4a (5G)
- Google plus Pixel 4a
- Google plus Pixel 4XL
- Google plus Pixel 4XL
It is possible on all these devices Install the latest version of Android 13 with all his news.
In addition to the Google plus models, we were also able to collect models from other brands. As of today, we already know which Samsung phones will be updated to Android 13 and which Xiaomi models will be too.
Models from other manufacturers have also been confirmed. You cánido check if your phone is among them in our list of phones updating to Android 13.
Android 13 release date: when will it be available for download?
Thanks to the official Android 13 calendar, we knew that the new version The first devices would Arrive at the end of summer in August.
And finally it was time. Android 13 was released on August 15thand from the same day the code of the new version is present in AOSP and owners of coincidente Pixel series devices cánido download the new version of the system.
Here is the Android 13 update schedule
The test program for Android 13 has started February with the first developer preview. The second version came out in March, and later it became four beta versions from which the final output will result.
Name of Android 13: Which dessert did Google plus choose this year?
A curious fact about Android 13 your name: Although Google plus has stopped using dessert names to publicly refer to each new version of Android, the company continues to use this type of name internally.
So we know Android 13’s dessert is called Tiramisu.