Google announced connected August 15th, 2022, that it would begin rolling retired the Android 13 update to its portfolio of Pixel devices. As is accustomed with Android updates, however, this doesn’t mean that adjacent if you person a qualifying Pixel instrumentality (a Pixel 4 oregon newer, basically), you’ll instantly spot the update available. Google often takes a fig of weeks to present the update to each devices retired there.

While there’s ever the solution of utilizing Android’s developer tools, a Mac oregon PC, and a USB cablegram to sideload the update immediately, an easier, computer-free enactment exists arsenic well. If you’ve got a qualifying Pixel instrumentality and are bushed of seeing the bundle update surface accidental there’s thing new, here’s a instrumentality to unit the update to amusement up.

Enroll successful the Android Beta program

The archetypal measurement is to enroll successful Google’s Android Beta program, which has allowed adventurous Pixel owners (as good arsenic developers) to trial the caller bundle each summer. But since the last mentation of Android 13 is present out, if you enroll today, you won’t person a beta build. It volition beryllium the aforesaid mentation of Android that Google is dilatory rolling retired to everyone.

• Go to the Android Beta programme website connected immoderate instrumentality with a browser (including your phone) and log successful to the aforesaid Google relationship that your telephone uses.
• At the apical is simply a fastener to “see eligible devices.” Tap that and the leafage volition scroll to the bottom, wherever you’ll hopefully spot your Pixel phone.
• You tin past deed the “Opt in” fastener to articulation the beta. A model volition popular up, and you’ll person to hold to the presumption and conditions of the programme and past property Confirm and Enroll.

You tin articulation the beta programme from your telephone oregon immoderate instrumentality with a web browser. Screenshot: Dan Seifert / The Verge

Install the update

• Now that your telephone is enrolled successful the beta program, spell to the settings app connected your phone, scroll down to System, pat that, and past pat System Update. The Android 13 update should look close away. Tap the fastener that shows up to instal it.

Leave the Android Beta program

• Once you’ve installed the update (which tin instrumentality immoderate clip depending connected your net transportation and however galore apps you person installed connected your phone), you tin past spell backmost to the Android Beta website and click the “Opt out” fastener connected your pictured instrumentality to unenroll from the program.
• Google provides a informing that, if you are presently moving beta bundle and permission the beta program, an update volition beryllium delivered to your telephone that volition hitch its information and enactment it backmost connected a unchangeable build. But since the mentation of Android 13 you conscionable installed is the unchangeable build, that won’t hap here.

And that’s it; you’ve skipped immoderate arbitrary queue Google slotted you successful and are present moving the Android 13 software. Note that this lone works until Google releases a caller beta build, which it’s expected to bash successful September. At that point, if you permission the beta programme aft installing that build, your telephone volition beryllium wiped and restored to the unchangeable mentation of Android 13.

We’ve mostly noticed that this process is indispensable for Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones. It appears that if you person a Pixel 4 oregon 5, the update is much readily available. Just beryllium alert that there’s nary going backmost erstwhile you bash update to Android 13 connected a Pixel 6 oregon 6 Pro — it’s not imaginable to revert to Android 12 successful the future.