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TL;DR
- Google has reportedly responded aft immoderate Pixels received Android 12 alternatively of Android 13.
- The institution says it didn’t marque a mistake and that this update was so intentional.
- The Pixel shaper says it’ll tweak the messaging successful the Android 12 update notification.
Now, Google has responded to the quality successful a connection to 9to5Google. The hunt elephantine explained that it so meant to propulsion retired an Android 12 update to immoderate Pixel owners moving an older mentation of Android 12. It conscionable turned retired that this older merchandise coincided with Android 13’s release.
Check retired the connection below:
On August 15, Pixel devices moving an aged mentation of Android 12 received a notification astir a antecedently released Android 12 update with bug fixes. The messaging successful the notification was confusing with the timing of Android 13, and is presently being changed for clarity.
Google’s connection further stresses that this Android 12 update is abstracted from the Android 13 OTA and that it could instrumentality a fewer weeks for the caller update to deed your device.
We’re gladsome to spot the institution tweaking the notification for this Android 12 update, arsenic it could’ve astir apt avoided a batch of disorder successful the archetypal place. The notification primitively suggested that Android 12 was a caller update (complete with “introducing Android 12” header), portion determination was nary notation of Android 13 inactive coming.