Android 13 is a big deal [Top features + what's new]

[@TheTolsonator]

Hadn't paid much attention to XDA since I've dropped off modding my phones, but I'm stoked to see Alex here. Followed his work from when he was brand new back on Android Central. Nice vid Alex and great to see you again!

[@welshcraig1813]

Android 12 caused so many issues across so many devices, I'm more than happy for 13 to be focused on stability and iterative improvements.

[@Moon_Presence]

I literally am using Android 13 beta on my P6Pro because I hated Android 12... That's so pathetic.

[@elivelive]

@@harveywaek go make yours and use it

[@Dadniel1st]

Still running android 8 on my Note 9. I've disabled updates and I have a very stable phone with call recording and all apps are running with no problems.

[@fuzer4047]

funny i didnt have issues

[@user-un1ed1fk1o]

On my Pixel 6 i haven't any issues :0

[@Shahzada]

We need better optimisation specially for apps & battery, that will help the mid range devices better, top of the range devices already have over the top of specs so we need better optimisation for mid range devices like ios

[@erriezzanslounge1380]

if they can make thier pixel device more sot,then other oem that use android will get more.

[@RL-iq5ue]

android aways had a good battery eficiency, the main problem are those google play apps that comes with every smartphones, if you learn how to use ADB you can solve this problem with naptime, and unstalling google apps.

[@silvy7394]

You'd have to re-build the entire OS from scratch in order to make that sloppy mess run efficiently.

[@karama300video]

The OS itself is fine but the apps are a smelly pile of garbage. Stacking frameworks upon frameworks is easier for the developers (at least for some time) but it adds so much unnecessary weight.

[@GTTMRC95]

I hate the new quick toggles look. So much wasted space.

[@232_TH]

exactly.. thats why i am still on android 11..

[@ferozeahamed9452]

Yes irritating

[@ade6ayo]

Well I love it 😌

[@RowmitHSN]

I love it cause its cleaner and accurate and easy to see.

[@shehansaverimuttu2049]

I first thought of this too. But through time, I just got used to it.

[@Jmcinally94]

I really miss the way MIUI handled back gestures. Swipe either side for back, swipe and hold to switch to previous app. It would give you a little haptic buzz when you held long enough to move to app switching and the back icon would change to the app icon of the app it would take you to. I think OxygenOS may also have worked this way? They dropped that when Android built its own gesture navs. I never sure the bottom bar for app switching, it's too cumbersome in on handed use.

[@nightwing8666]

Samsung is literally OP

[@alexdmd]

The thicker navigation bar is a good idea but it eats up more screen real estate because it's not fully transparent like iOS

[@Lobanium]

It's invisible in iOS? Because that's what "fully transparent" means.

[@woutchauvaux6672]

I dont see why you even want a navigation bar if you are using gestures... Im glad my oneplus phone doesnt show any navigation buttons on my screen

[@GakisStylianos]

It's literally like 10 pixels high, what do you mean by taking real estate?

[@sfakee]

Akshually, navigataion bar CAN be transparent on andoird, it depends on application

[@GakisStylianos]

@@sfakee That's also true. It's up to the developer to opt in to that functionality, and then make sure that things in each screen still look good and are clickable etc.

[@abdulrahmanch7191]

I was surprised when he said XDA, I thought it was an Android Central review lol

[@christianaviles2199]

I still wish the back gesture was a swipe across the home bar. I don't like the swipe from the edge of the screen gesture. I accidentally do it too often in certain apps that still have pull menus or during gaming. Also how about a better way to organize apps in the app drawer. Would be nice to not have to use Nova launcher to create folders in my app drawer. But also thank you Nova haha.

[@ArjuAmbin]

Nice review and great to see more activity on this channel. Here comes the mandatory question. Does anyone have the wallpaper that’s used throughout this video on the pixel device?

[@XDAVideo]

It's from the Earth category in the Backdrops app

[@ArjuAmbin]

@@XDAVideo Thank you very much!

[@kodaloid]

The design changes in Android 12 were awful for every device except the 6 line-up. They over simplified, removed customisation features (right when Apple was adding them), and everyone who I've spoken to who has a pixel like me agrees. Android 11 looked & worked great on my Pixel 5, but with 12 I've had to use a custom launcher just to get it back to not being a bubble mess. It's deeply disappointing to see that no changes are going to be made to the design, and it pretty much guarantees that i'll stop buying pixel devices.

[@igauravpandey]

The newer design of the Android 12 us what made me buy my pixel 6. I guess it comes down to preference and I freaking love it. PS: I went from a sub $200 phone to a pixel

[@kodaloid]

@@igauravpandey I don't disagree with this, the problem like I said though is that 12 looks like it was designed only for the pixel 6 lineup. If google is going to control the design on all android phones, designing only for their latest device is a very anti-android, apple way of going about it.

[@igauravpandey]

@@kodaloid I haven't looked at other skins for Android 12. If customisation features had to be removed in other skins because of A12 then that's really bad decision. Customisation is at the essence of Android. Completely agree with you.

[@zvt9]

im still waiting for them to fix the horrible file write speeds android scoped storage introduced

[@vimalanpaulr]

Alex on XDA?

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@keshavcharan]

Great to see the UI is not changing visually when compared to Android 12. That's a mature approach

[@StromBugSlayer]

Except Android 12 was such a disaster, particularly the Quick Settings, I wish they HAD changed it, or reverted back to 11.

[@danielkirk5660]

Why did XDA get rid of TK Bay?

[@blood.mirror]

Thanks Alex! Yet ANOTHER excellent Android update video. I ALWAYS watch these when you do them. So good! XDA now, huh? That's cool too. 😉

[@DolphinsAreBetterThanHumans]

One big under hood improvement was not mentioned : ART was made modular so it could be updated without manufacturer intervention. Means performance improvements to a device that is on a12,a13 for years even if they don't get update to new version

[@fist003]

1:52 i genuinely thought that was the back cover with a case

[@IngwiePhoenix_nb]

Whatever happened to Desktop mode and KVM support?

[@johnathangonzo5837]

Where’s my update ? It’s still on Android 12 and showing no update .

[@handsomehorsetech]

what is the app in the video support predictive back gesture?

[@dheeraj3945]

Might just be me, but does anyone else get annoyed by the notifications on Android 12 being opened up while trying to access the search bar?

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@bonchance7705]

0:21 - What's up with the Chinese Date for July 4th Monday and a SUPER SLOW fingerprint unlock?

[@xperience-evolution]

Give me a damn one click wifi turn on/off and not one click on top of my screen and an other one at the bottom. Who the fuck thought that is a good idea.

[@432wheels]

Does the new photos permissions mean all my Bing/Google wallpapers won’t get synchronised up to my Google photos account now? That was so annoying having my photo library filled with all the other image files found on my phone

[@jhunnoethiz3014]

Are they doing this every year? Keep on updating till we reach Android 100, android 200, because it only means to me "buy new cellphone to experience the newest version" especially my cellphone stucked at A11 and unupgradable anymore

[@robertwilliams5618]

Mine is android 9. I need a new phone anyway my phone's a piece of crap

[@leafpmpmp]

wondering why the date on the lock screen is in Traditionl Chinnese.🤔Is it following the language of "clock" app?

[@SolidCoreBlack]

Samsung Should give flashing to stock rom as an options. phone that no longer getting update

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@naturedetectiveminecraft6362]

I'm going to be honest I have 13 now but I honestly missed Android 11 where you can hold on the power button to get quick access to your home controls

[@dragac90]

my pixel saying that I'm up to date. Where is update then?

[@JoshB-zc5jb]

Why is the gesture navigation bar not transparent like IOS?

[@itsmyright2229]

I feel like every 2nd Android version, the ui gets an overhaul

[@peterwurst45346]

This just sounds like minimal visual changes and nothing serious. Gestures are generally unintuitive, since every device has different. I didn't realise much more feature changes in these 12 minutes. But on the last seconds there was a feature of being able to switch listening devices from the music card?

[@kwesibaahsackey5413]

Unrelated :- Can a virtual Webcam be setup on Android or a chromebook?

[@ciprianadrian2123]

Hello. Is it possible that we can completely disable the quick settings on the lock screen ? so that if someone steals your phone they can't turn off mobile data and then we can track the phone using the find my device app. Combine that with setting google assistant on the power button so that they can't even turn it off without going in the quick settings..

[@dhaneshvandra]

What is that wallpaper can you please share the link, it looks amazing.

[@iambrahimi]

I’m running android 13 beta on my pixel 6 and I’m still experiencing notification delay

[@kat4animals004]

where's the notification dot??

[@nitin7218]

We need better standby. What’s the point of LTPOs, 4nms and Efficient LPDDR5s when most phones loose 10% over the night!

[@kyonngowans7091]

Does Android 13 bring dual esim support?

[@TyronPowell]

How did you get the "like and dislike" buttons to appear in media controls? It doesn't show on mine like that.

[@XDAVideo]

Depends on the app. That bit of footage is from a slightly older version of KZbin Music

[@TyronPowell]

@@XDAVideo ahhh. Okay gotcha. Thanks 👍🏿

[@BloodSinEngraved]

I just want to be able to next/previous track with volume buttons and the screen off.

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@mdzaid5925]

Android release cycle should be 2 years. Relase one, but stable, polished and significant more features/ improvement. It will also improve update issue on Android phones. Just a single update will make device good for 4 years

[@erriezzanslounge1380]

yup

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@therealb888]

Nope, there's a reason why big tech prefers the cycles it does now. Its a lot easier to release an absolutely unpolished software into the wild & let the users test & report the bugs. It has almost no impact on loss of userbase. People suck up whatever these big companies throw at them.

[@apusista]

That's it?! 😯 They shouldn't call it Android 13 if that's all... It seems more like a patch? Android 12. X

[@pwhales264]

I remember the first versions of Android back in 2008-9

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@nickchhabra]

Such a well presented video 💯

[@deuspax]

it doesn't sound like something new - just an iteration as anything else nowadays

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@bineetsingh2855]

Wallpaper? 3:06

[@othinus]

Any updates on Accessibility?

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@CRAZY6256]

Will Android 13 come to the fold4?

[@BurgerParty]

So no screen resolution changer?

[@MFizzle777]

Hope the 60min clipboard won't be affecting Samsung devices as I like my clipboard staying as long as I want. Otherwise I like it.

[@TejasNaik01]

Stability is the key to any software and I believe Android 13 has delivered on that.

[@TANKSINATRA289]

Why we can't tourn back to A12 after we install A13 ? Where are the advantages of this thing?

[@dragonwake]

I remember being soooo excited for every android update. It was new and exciting and fun. Now it's just.....meh...

[@donif]

in android 13 is there any progress with cameraX api?

[@hjpinhei]

Not sure everyone fells the same, but for me it seems in the past there were way more disruptive features every year . A year of development for this? Seems more like Android 12.1 for me

[@hereliesaz]

What happened to all the old videos?

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@douglaspeale9727]

Does Android 13 support exFAT or NTFS?

[@Vega-lw5tl]

Clean and informative video, Great job!

[@daniyalshahzad2822]

Can you confirm will Android 13 support Dual Esim??

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@topg2820]

Nice to see you here, Alex, shouldn't have deleted the old videos but anyways can't wait to see great new content from XDA!

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@kat4animals004]

what's the Easter egg?

[@DocThinks]

1:55 you have my like for that Tiramisu

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@karthikthakur5221]

"Coming this summer", bruh can you be more specific like months ? I am from India and it is raining season over here.

[@Eternal_Tech]

From what I have heard and read, Android 13 is expected to be released sometime in or around September 2022.

[@rph_redacted]

That power button at the bottom should be activated with a long press instead of single tap.

[@adfjasjhf]

Agree but that would make people think that the button doesn't work. I wouldn't say a lot of people would long press on it to open a certain menu. Perhaps a tooltip while clicking on it multiple times would remedy this to a degree.

[@danielarmstrong2144]

Long presses in android are for opening context menus, not activating the button. So it should be a tap to use, long press to open power settings. Making it a long press to just do standard power button things is contradictory to the ux language android has been establishing for a long time.

[@zac8670]

@@danielarmstrong2144 Yup, this 👍 Some people might prefer it to be long press, but for the most part people will consciously or unconsciously expect it to operate as has already been outlined over the years.

[@elsombero1747]

Luckily there's the XDA Dev forum ;) My POCO X3 Pro is currently running on Android 13 while the MiUi is running A12 with the December 2021 update XD I use EvolutionX ROM, btw

[@droptuned83]

will I get access to 13 on my 4a ?

[@jozhfy]

this summer.... is august now...

[@haidaralghareeb9967]

We are edging closer to Android 17 & 18. Dr. Gero must be so proud.

[@BuffMuffin3000]

What about the camera quality ?

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@toiartu]

I am using Android 13 beta Google gsi and it is smoother, faster and more stable than the official stock android 12 for Samsung Note 10.

[@heni63]

is a GSI that stable? even the battery is better? you are using Google pixel experience or plain Android?

[@aashilr]

I made the mistake of updating to Android 12 on my OnePlus 8 Pro. I'm looking forward to getting off this shitstorm of an "update". Wish there was an easy, no-headache way to downgrade back to Android 11 until Android 13 is out.

[@de-niz7631]

Battery life?

[@whatstrending999]

Is there no app lock feature in Android 13

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@enlightenedone2323]

I think that they should dedicate a whole version to stability and smoothness. If Pixel 6A doesn't feel smooth, what can we expect from rest.

[@sm1tsu]

Mind share the wallpaper, pleasee!!

[@_alchemax]

Can some one tell what is the wallpaper at 3:44

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@ericgsch]

What about face unlock for the pixel 6 pro? I heard that was coming. Is this still true?

[@TheTuareg]

Samsung's One UI design is way better

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@DestopLine]

No

[@moustafabaroud2100]

Still can't update on my pixel 6a

[@ChAoS3sixO]

Serious WiFi issue's after updating pixel 6 to android 13

[@shakel]

How do I get 13 for my Pixel 6 pro

[@terrenceho7874]

Love the wallpaper, can you share ? Appreciate ur reply ❤️❤️❤️

[@SkyeNewsFeed]

i like the emoji effect and the predictable back functions

[@ashwinkumar5065]

The internet button still isn't broken back into data and wifi toggles. Improvements my ass. Since Android 12, new OS updates seem to be a downgrade rather than an upgrade.

[@cJeremy]

crazy seeing Alex on a different channel.. seems like he was at AC for forever..

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@Tribes11]

I hate this new status bar since Android 12, that's what kept me away from it. It takes too much space with the quick toggles being wider, this doesn't make any sense to me, it was better when there were more icons and shortcuts there. I personally think Android really died on Q. Sad.

[@marioux1474]

Nice review sir 💆‍♂️💆‍♂️💆‍♂️

[@andrewc31394]

Great video, but the music in that intro is way too loud compared to the rest of the video.

[@Commander_ZiN]

It just feels like Google had a good thing once but then they made changes for the sake of change and now it's just a mess.

[@magnusred2945]

You need to add timestamps

[@FavoriteCentaurMoe]

great video!

[@NeshaStanic]

Clipboard just 16min???? Disaster! My whole text messaging over all apps heavily depends on clipboard, just like Win10 and W11 have with "win key + V". Can clipboard contents be pinned?

[@owaismalik]

you look like adult version of draco malfoy :o

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@pyk8075]

Google now needs to work on their emojis

[@mieleguy1999]

I'm a OnePlus Nord user still waiting for Android 12 but android 13 already out? 💀

[@USERNAME-Frankie_Techs]

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[@OmarAbidOfficial]

Am I the only one who's still on Android 9?

[@kylewright8339]

Can't wait get android 13 on my s21 ultra end of August

[@Berserkerbaboen]

WHY DOES ANDROID ONLY HAVE A BACKWARDS ARROW??? TRILLIONS OF TIMES PEOPLE ERASE PAGES BY MISTAKE AND CURSE DEVS TO HADES FOR NOT HAVING A FORWARD BUTTON TO GET OUR SHIT BACK!!

[@digita1sk3tchr]

So… nobody looked at that now playing scrubber and thought it looked like a sperm cell?

[@onupirat]

apparently not

[@Eternal_Tech]

With the fall in birthrate in many countries, maybe Google is trying to tell us something. 😊