In the midst of an in any other case unremarkable new construct of Android’s 13 developer beta, 9to5Google uncovered something fun: our annual Android Easter egg. This 12 months’s hidden function builds on the colorful splash screen from Android 12, this time filling it with emoji. Like, quite a bit of emoji.

The approach it capabilities within the present beta model (13.3) is very like final 12 months — begin the Easter egg by going to Settings > About telephone > Android model, then faucet the Android model thrice quickly. This reveals an analog clock widget; transfer the arms to 1 o’clock (that’s 13:00 in army time — get it?), and also you’ll see a colourful array of spots pop up representing Material You’s customizable shade theming.

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Here’s the place it differs from final 12 months: lengthy press one of many spots, they usually’ll all flip into emoji. You can preserve lengthy urgent to cycle by way of screens with totally different emoji themes like sea creatures, cats, and moon phases. So many emoji! Google isn’t the one one taking part in round with emoji wallpaper, both — one of many iOS 16 lock screens unveiled at WWDC 2022 is a grid of user-selectable emoji. Emoji wallpaper: so proper now.

There’s a sensible side of the Android 12 Easter egg that continues to be intact from final 12 months, too. Once you discover the Easter egg, you’ll have a brand new house display widget possibility referred to as “Android S Easter Egg.” Adding it to your homescreen will reveal shade swatches for the varied system colours the telephone is utilizing primarily based in your wallpaper, ala Material You, to allow them to be saved or shared. Useful? Yes. As enjoyable as a display stuffed with cat response emoji? No approach.