This 12 months’s main Android replace, Android 13, is formally releasing at this time for Google’s Pixel telephones, the search giant has announced. The annual replace is getting an official launch just a little sooner than traditional, following Android 12’s launch final October and Android 11’s launch in September 2020.

The record of updates arriving with this 12 months’s model of Android is more likely to be acquainted when you’ve been maintaining with Android 13’s beta releases. There’s the flexibility to customise non-Google app icons to match your homescreen wallpaper that we noticed in Android 13’s first developer preview, a brand new permission to chop down on notification spam, and a brand new choice to restrict which of your images and movies an app can entry.

Image: Google

Image: Google

Back in January, we wrote that Google deliberate to spend this 12 months catching up with Apple’s ecosystem integrations, and there’s extra proof of this in Android 13’s official launch. The replace contains help for spatial audio with head monitoring, which is designed to make sounds seem as if they’re coming from a hard and fast level in house whenever you transfer your head whereas sporting suitable headphones, just like a characteristic Apple offers for its AirPods. Today’s publish doesn’t say precisely which headphones it will work with, however Google beforehand introduced it might be updating its Pixel Buds Pro to supply help for spatial audio.

Secondly, there’s the flexibility to stream messages from apps together with Google Messages on to a Chromebook, just like iMessage on the Mac. It’s one other characteristic that Google detailed in January. As effectively as its personal Messages app, one in all Google’s promotional property additionally exhibits this working with the messaging app Signal, and the corporate says the characteristic will work with “many of your other favorite messaging apps.” The replace additionally features a characteristic that permits you to copy content material from an Android cellphone to be pasted on an Android pill and vice versa.

Image: Google

Image: Google

Other Android 13 options embrace the flexibility to set languages on a per-app foundation, a redesigned media participant that adjusts its look based mostly on what you’re listening to, help for Bluetooth Low Energy for higher sound high quality at decrease bitrates and lowered latency, improved multitasking on large-screen units with drag and drop help for multitasking, and higher palm rejection when utilizing styluses.

Google’s announcement doesn’t specify precisely which Pixel units will obtain the Android 13 replace at this time, however beta variations of the software program have been obtainable on every little thing from the Pixel 4 by means of to the not too long ago launched Pixel 6A. The Android replace might be coming to units from different producers together with Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, HMD, Motorola, Realme, Sony, Xiaomi, and Asus “later this year,” Google’s Sameer Samat writes in at this time’s announcement publish. For extra particulars on the modifications arriving within the replace, check out Google’s post.