Android 13: Everything we know about Google’s next-gen operating system - Android Police

It feels like Android 12 has just been released, and the new OS still hasn’t made its way onto the vast majority of phones out there.

All Android versions used to come with delicious, sweets-based codenames; remember Android 4.4 KitKat or Android 9 Pie.

But this tap-to-transfer method is just too handy and intuitive to vanish into Nirvana, and it looks like Google wants to resurrect it.

We don’t know which technology it will be using, but NFC and UWB seem like the obvious candidates.

Most of us tech-savvy folks know that we can just use our phones’ camera apps and point them at most QR code to scan it, but it looks like Google wants to make this a bit more obvious for those who might not be in on this.

In any case, with QR codes becoming so incredibly commonplace these days, anything that will make it easier to interact with them is probably a welcome addition for those who don’t live and breathe Android like we do.

As we exclusively covered, Android 13 could introduce an option that allows you to set your preferred language on a per-app basis.

Android 13 might introduce a toggle in developer options that will allow power users to turn off this measure for edge cases just like Termux.

As spotted by Mishaal Rahman, Android 13 could be the first version of Android to introduce fully-fleshed out support for Bluetooth Low-Energy Audio.

If you’re particularly annoyed by the overblown clock that shows up on your lockscreen when you don’t have notifications on Pixel phones, this Android 13 change might be for you: Google appears to be working on a toggle for disabling the huge clock, labelled as “Double-line clock.”.

Given that Google usually releases the first developer preview of new Android versions in February or March, we likely won't have to wait too long to see the next-gen OS in action.