Your phone, tablet and more—all on your terms.
An image of a phone displaying the new Android 13 UI.
Android13
Highlights
- Personal
- Private
- Beyond the phone
Android 13
Personal
Like it was made for you. And only you.
There are more ways than ever to make your Android look and feel like yours. Building on Material You, now you can customize your apps by color, theme and language. Even your media player will match your personal music taste.
Themed app icons
Your phone. Your style.
Customize your phone to your personal style. With expanded themed app icons, you can set more apps -not just Google apps - to match your phone’s wallpaper tint and colors.1
Your music has never looked so good.
Android 13 comes with a new media player that puts album artwork on full display and features a dancing playback bar.2
A music widget is highlighted, showing a Carrie Underwood song playing. The media playback bar wiggles up and down as the song progresses on the Android 13 device screen.
Android 13 comes with a new media player that puts album artwork on full display and features a dancing playback bar.2
Per-app language preferences
Always the right language.
Assign different language settings to individual apps, so you can move fluidly between languages on your device, just like in real life.3
Assign different language settings to individual apps, so you can move fluidly between languages on your device, just like in real life.3
Private
Security that keeps your data protected all day.
From the moment you turn on your device, Android works to keep your data safe and secure. With Android 13, you have more control over what information apps can and can’t access—including specific photos, videos and clipboard history.
What you say goes.
Helps keep your content private. Share only the photos and videos you choose with certain apps; not your full library.4
User taps on Add photo in the My profile screen. Photo picker expands. “This app will have access to only the photos you select.” is at the top of the screen. The user chooses an image to share with the app.
Helps keep your content private. Share only the photos and videos you choose with certain apps; not your full library.4
Notification permissions
Stop the dings, rings and pings.
You're in control of which apps can send you notifications—helping you limit distractions.5
You're in control of which apps can send you notifications—helping you limit distractions.5
Proactive protection.
Android 13 has safeguards built in to help protect your personal data. To protect the information on your clipboard, you’ll get an alert when an app accesses it and your clipboard history will be cleared after a period of time to prevent unwanted access.
A user taps and copies some text. It sits in the clipboard while a clock ticks indicating the passage of time. The text then disappears as the history is erased.
Android 13 has safeguards built in to help protect your personal data. To protect the information on your clipboard, you’ll get an alert when an app accesses it and your clipboard history will be cleared after a period of time to prevent unwanted access.
See how Android helps keep you safe.
Learn more about safety
Beyond the phone.
Devices that work better together.
Android 13 goes beyond the phone—bringing all of the devices in your life together seamlessly—with features that enhance your messaging, audio and multitasking experiences.
Android 13 phone with Messages open, A text appears asking “Hi Katherine, how’s it going?” Katherine responds “Good! Just got back from the grocery store”. Text bubble expands and transfers to a Chromebook screen. User responds to the text from the Chromebook saying “Oh nice! Making anything tasty tonight?”
Messaging app streaming
Chat everywhere.
Send and receive messages even when your phone’s out of reach by streaming your messaging apps directly to your Chromebook.6
Smooth handoffs.
Get things done on the device that makes the most sense by simply copying content—like a URL, text or picture—from your phone and pasting it to your tablet. Or you can start on your tablet and paste to your phone. Coming soon to Android 13 devices.7
Android 13 phone screen with Nest Audio website. User hard presses on image of Nest Audio and taps “Copy.” Image animates to Nearby Share icon. Nearby Share opens with “Looking for your devices” pulsing, identifying Liza’s Tablet. User taps Liza’s Tablet.Tablet animates in next to the phone. Tablet screen shows “Birthday Gift Ideas.” Nearby Share icon animates in, user taps “Paste” to transfer the copied Nest Audio image from the phone screen to the tablet screen.
Get things done on the device that makes the most sense by simply copying content—like a URL, text or picture—from your phone and pasting it to your tablet. Or you can start on your tablet and paste to your phone. Coming soon to Android 13 devices.7
Enhanced audio
Enjoy enhanced audio.
Spatial Audio lets you enjoy immersive sound. On head tracking enabled headphones, Spatial Audio shifts the source of the sound based on how you turn your head, making you feel like you’re in the middle of the sports game, movie or concert right from the comfort of your Android phone or tablet. Plus, Android 13 adopts Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio which improves audio quality and allows you to broadcast media to multiple people at once.8
Sound ripples surround the sides of a person’s head while it rotates.
Spatial Audio lets you enjoy immersive sound. On head tracking enabled headphones, Spatial Audio shifts the source of the sound based on how you turn your head, making you feel like you’re in the middle of the sports game, movie or concert right from the comfort of your Android phone or tablet. Plus, Android 13 adopts Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio which improves audio quality and allows you to broadcast media to multiple people at once.8
Composing an email on an Android tablet with Gmail open. User opens full app library from the taskbar and drags Photos onto the screen in split screen mode with Gmail. With the screen split, the user hard presses on an image from the Photos app open on the right side of the screen and drags it into the email on the left side of the screen.
Multitasking on tablets
Bigger and better productivity.
The updated taskbar on tablets helps you do two tasks at once. You can now drag and drop any second app from your app library into a split-screen view directly from your taskbar. And for times that you’re writing or drawing with a stylus, your tablet will register your palm and stylus as separate touches, reducing the number of accidental marks that come simply from comfortably resting your hand on the screen.
Discover how Android connects your devices.
Sync your Android phone with your TV, watch or car for a unified experience. Move from one device to another seamlessly and make everything work better together. Securely and swiftly transfer large files to Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks, even when offline.
Step into a story
A smartphone wirelessly connects to earbuds. A tablet wirelessly plays Spotify through a Nest Hub. A smartwatch wirelessly takes a photo on a phone.
Sync your Android phone with your TV, watch or car for a unified experience. Move from one device to another seamlessly and make everything work better together. Securely and swiftly transfer large files to Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks, even when offline.
Find a device
Cutting-edge phones await.
Check out the latest and greatest Android devices.
Find your next device
FAQs
Android 13 - Customizable Apps & Security Controls - Android? ›
Android 13 adds rendering support for COLR version 1 fonts and updates the system emoji to the COLRv1 format. Apps that provide custom tiles can make those tiles available in Quick Settings. Starting in Android 13, apps utilize a standard visual confirmation whenever content is added to the clipboard.
What are the special features of Android 13? ›Android 13 adds rendering support for COLR version 1 fonts and updates the system emoji to the COLRv1 format. Apps that provide custom tiles can make those tiles available in Quick Settings. Starting in Android 13, apps utilize a standard visual confirmation whenever content is added to the clipboard.
What are the new permissions for Android 13? ›Three new permission is introduced with Android 13: READ_MEDIA_IMAGES , READ_MEDIA_IMAGES , READ_MEDIA_VIDEO , and READ_MEDIA_AUDIO . Use one of these new permissions if you were reading files using READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE . All is well if an Android 13 user has already granted this permission.
What is restricted setting on Android 13? ›The Restricted Setting feature will block the user from enabling the accessibility service for malicious applications. Upon identifying such an app, the Accessibility settings for that app will become inaccessible, and users will see a “Restricted setting” dialog stating that the setting is currently unavailable.
What is the major difference between Android 12 and 13? ›Bigger Navigation Bar
A small but noticeable change in Android 13 is that it features a slightly thicker navigation bar compared to Android 12. The new navigation bar, even though it looks a bit like iOS, is more usable and looks better than the previous generation.
Android 13 is Google's latest and greatest smartphone operating system, bound to power billions of phones in the future. In contrast to its predecessor, it's one of the smaller upgrades, but it still packs a few great features you don't want to miss out on.
What are the two types of permissions in Android? ›Normal permissions, Signature permissions, and Dangerous permissions are the three types.
What are special permissions in Android? ›A special permission guards access to system resources that are particularly sensitive or not directly related to user privacy.
What is permission control on Android? ›The Android permissions controller is a part of the Android operating system that tells apps what they can and can't access. When you install a new app, the Android permissions controller is what gives you the option to allow or deny permissions for that app.
How do I use cat controls on Android 13? ›So, press and hold the power button to get to the controls screen. To get to those cat controls to play the game, you go back to your power menu screen and tap on the down arrow next to 'Home' and chose 'Cat Controls' from the drop-down menu.
What happens when you tap on Android version 13? ›
Tap on Android version until an analog clock appears. Turn the hands to 1:00 (which is also 13:00 for Android 13). Suddenly you'll see the clock turn into the Android 13 badge surrounded by circles in various sizes. Tapping on the circles (or bubbles, if you prefer) turns them into emojis.
What is empty dish in Android? ›Hit your home button and then drag down the quick settings shade from the top of the screen again. This time you should see an "empty plate" option. Tap it and you'll see an overlay with four food choices: Bits, Fish, Chicken and Treat.
Why should I upgrade to Android 13? ›Permissions, Privacy, and Security
This update also brings with it several new permission and privacy improvements that make the OS much less intrusive and vastly more comfortable to use. With Android 13, apps ask for permission before they can send you notifications.
One UI 5.0 comes with a watermarking tool inside the Camera, better background app management and improved optimization, a redesigned Settings app (in places), improvements to Samsung DeX and Multi-Window, per-contact call backgrounds, better integration with Bixby OCR inside various Samsung apps, a new lock screen ...
Is Android 14 coming out? ›The first beta version of Android 14 was released to beta testers on April 12, 2023. Beta 2 was released on May 10, 2023. Android 14 Beta 3 reached platform stability on June 7, 2023. Beta 4 was released on July 11, 2023.