Android 13 Rolls In For Pixel Phones Starting Right Away
2022’s major Android upgrade, Android 13, is formally releasing now for Google’s Pixel phones, the search giant has announced. The once a year upgrade is getting an official release a little earlier than normal, after Android 12’s launch last October and the Android 11 introduction back in September 2020.
The lineup of updates coming in in this year’s variation of Android is most likely to be familiar if you’ve been keeping track of Android 13’s beta releases. There’s the capability to tailor non-Google app icons to suit your homescreen wallpaper that we experienced in Android 13’s first developer preview, a new permission to minimize notification spam, as well as a new choice to control which of your photos and also videos an app can get access to.
The revision incorporates support for spatial audio with head tracking, that is designed to make tones appear as though they’re originating from a fixed point in space when you move your head whilst using compatible headphones, very similar to a capability Apple offers for its AirPods. Today’s post doesn’t say precisely which headphones this will work with, but Google earlier stated it would be revising its Pixel Buds Pro to give support for spatial audio.
Also, there’s the potential to stream messages from apps including Google Messages directly to a Chromebook, comparable to iMessage on the Mac. It’s one more capability that Google outlined in January. Together with its own Messages app, one of Google’s promotional resources also displays this operating with the messaging app Signal, and the company says the function will function with “a lot of your many other favorite messaging apps.” The update also includes a feature that helps you copy content from an Android phone to be pasted on an Android tablet and vice versa.
Additional Android 13 benefits include the capability to set up languages on a per-app basis, an overhauled media player that adapts its look based on what you’re listening to, support for Bluetooth Low Energy for greater sound quality at lower bitrates and also reduced latency, improved multitasking on large-screen units with drag and drop support for multitasking, and also better palm rejection whenever utilizing styluses.
The Android update could be coming to phones from additional producers such as Oppo, Samsung, OnePlus, HMD, Motorola, Sony, Realme Xiaomi, and Asus later this year, Google’s Sameer Samat writes in the news post. For more facts on the improvements arriving in the update, go to Google’s blog post over here
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