After a few months of public testing, the latest version of Google’s Android operating system — Android 13 — is now available to some people. Here’s a brief guide to the features.
Updates like these are always a sort of grab bag, with features you can expect to run into soon and others that you may never notice in action.
I’ve spent an afternoon getting a feel for what’s new on a handful of my own test phones, and a few of Google’s additions have already begun to stand out. To my surprise, the features I’ve become really fond of don’t have anything to do with the stylish visual overhaul Android started getting last year — they’re mostly clever little changes that I sort of wish were always there in the first place.
and it asks you to upload a photo of yourself to your profile. “Fine,” you think, so you hit the button that opens your photo library and start hunting for an appropriate pic. That sort of interaction happens all the time, and in older versions of Android, it usually requires you to give the app in question the power to peek at the media stored on your phone. In Android 13, though, these apps can instead use a media “picker” built by Google itself that lets them access only the files you choose, and only for a limited time.
As part of this year’s big update, Google has also made a handful of privacy changes that you shouldn’t ever really notice. Consider your copying and pasting habits: Whatever info you move from one place to another, it gets stored temporarily in Android’s “clipboard,” and Android 13 makes it a point to wipe it clean every hour or so, to make sure other apps can’t access anything sensitive you may have put there without realizing it.
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