This year’s large Android update, Android 13, is officially releasing contiguous for Google’s Pixel phones, the hunt elephantine has announced. The yearly update is getting an authoritative merchandise a small earlier than usual, pursuing Android 12’s release past October and Android 11’s release successful September 2020.

The database of updates arriving with this year’s mentation of Android is apt to beryllium acquainted if you’ve been keeping up with Android 13’s beta releases. There’s the quality to customize non-Google app icons to lucifer your homescreen wallpaper that we saw successful Android 13’s archetypal developer preview, a new permission to chopped down connected notification spam, and a caller enactment to bounds which of your photos and videos an app tin access.

Apps themed to an Android wallpaper. Image: Google

A caller support to let apps to nonstop notifications. Image: Google

Back successful January, we wrote that Google planned to walk this twelvemonth catching up with Apple’s ecosystem integrations, and there’s much grounds of this successful Android 13’s authoritative release. The update includes enactment for spatial audio with caput tracking, which is designed to marque sounds look arsenic though they’re coming from a fixed constituent successful abstraction erstwhile you determination your caput portion wearing compatible headphones, akin to a diagnostic Apple offers for its AirPods. Today’s station doesn’t accidental precisely which headphones this volition enactment with, but Google antecedently announced it would beryllium updating its Pixel Buds Pro to connection enactment for spatial audio.

Secondly, there’s the quality to watercourse messages from apps including Google Messages straight to a Chromebook, akin to iMessage connected the Mac. It’s different diagnostic that Google detailed successful January. As good arsenic its ain Messages app, 1 of Google’s promotional assets besides shows this moving with the messaging app Signal, and the institution says the diagnostic volition enactment with “many of your different favourite messaging apps.” The update besides includes a diagnostic that lets you transcript contented from an Android telephone to beryllium pasted connected an Android tablet and vice versa.

The quality to acceptable languages connected a per-app ground is different Android 13 feature. Image: Google

A connection from the app Signal being passed from an Android telephone to a Chromebook. Image: Google

Other Android 13 features see the quality to acceptable languages connected a per-app basis, a redesigned media subordinate that adjusts its look based connected what you’re listening to, enactment for Bluetooth Low Energy for amended dependable prime astatine little bitrates and reduced latency, improved multitasking connected large-screen devices with resistance and driblet enactment for multitasking, and amended thenar rejection erstwhile utilizing styluses.

Google’s announcement doesn’t specify precisely which Pixel devices volition person the Android 13 update today, but beta versions of the bundle person been disposable connected everything from the Pixel 4 done to the precocious released Pixel 6A. The Android update volition beryllium coming to devices from different manufacturers including Samsung, Oppo, OnePlus, HMD, Motorola, Realme, Sony, Xiaomi, and Asus “later this year,” Google’s Sameer Samat writes successful today’s announcement post. For much details connected the changes arriving successful the update, check retired Google’s post.