The year’s big Android upgrade, Android 13, is formally releasing today for Google’s Pixel handsets, the search giant has made known. The annual update is getting an official introduction a little sooner than usual, following Android 12’s release last October as well as Android 11’s launch in September of 2020.
The lineup of improvements coming in in this year’s edition of Android is most likely to be familiar if you’ve been staying on top of Android 13’s beta releases. There’s the feature to individualize non-Google app icons to complement your homescreen wallpaper that we saw in Android 13’s first developer preview, a new permission to reduce notification spam, as well as a new choice to restrict which of your photos and also videos an app can gain access to.
The revision contains support for spatial audio with head tracking, that is designed to make tones seem as though they’re originating from a fixed point in space when you move your head whilst wearing compatible headphones, quite similar to a feature Apple offers for its AirPods. Today’s article doesn’t say just which headphones this will use, but Google recently declared it would be updating its Pixel Buds Pro to provide support for spatial audio.
Also, there’s the capability to stream messages from apps such as Google Messages directly to a Chromebook, similar to iMessage on the Mac. It’s another feature that Google outlined in January. As well as its own Messages app, one of Google’s promotional resources also shows this getting the job done with the messaging app Signal, and the organization states the function will function with “a number of your various other beloved messaging apps.” The update also incorporates a feature that helps you copy content from an Android mobile to be pasted on an Android tablet and vice versa.
Additional Android 13 features include the capability to specify 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 reduced latency, greatly improved multitasking on large-screen devices with drag and drop support for multitasking, and better palm rejection whenever using styluses.
The Android update will be coming to phones from additional companies including Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, HMD, Motorola, Sony, Realme Xiaomi, as well as Asus later in the year, Google’s Sameer Samat says in the news blog post. For even more details on the updates appearing in the update, go to Google’s blog www.blog.google/products/android/android-13
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