Android 13 Hands-On: Top 5 Features!

The 5 best features in the newest Android 13 Update!

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[matt-dw]

I swear the hype for Android updates is massively less than what it used to be. I remember seeing masses of videos covering each pre-release version in-depth in years gone by, but this time, I was barely aware 13 was even on the horizon until today

[felixsanhueza]

Here's a practical example of why I'm looking forward to setting apps to different languages: my phone is in French, but I live in Germany. When my boiler's monitoring app notifies me of an issue, I get the message in French, so I have no idea what the issue is called in German when I want to contact my technician. I have to change my entire phone's language setting to be able to see the error message in German, and then report it to the technician. And then I get to switch the phone language again 😅

[waylee]

The biggest feature I had been looking forward to on Android 13 is the native braille support built into TalkBack. However, I and many people in the blind community are very disappointed to discover that Google still has not added support for the modern Hid braille standard, which has been around for several years now. This means that people using braille displays that support this standard cannot use braille on Android. Speaking from the perspective of someone who relys on braille for communicating with people, I find this lack of support from Google extremely disheartening.

[speedy]

App specific language support is awesome! My native language is German but I very much prefer to use my phone in English cause English is the native language of the OS and I'm a big fan of language acquisition through immersion. However, I'm glad that I can now use apps like the journey planer for my local public transportation agency in its original language as well as the German version of Google Maps cause the English A.I. voice doesn't speak out German street names.

[DinoRodriguez]

For me, App Languages is a game changer, incredible feature.

[nathantheodorus]

6:24 "A squiggly line when there's something playing, I'm not gonna say what that looks like"

First thing that came to my mind was snake, and then I noticed the tip of the squiggly line... Can't unsee

[keithnisbet]

I just bought an A53 5G as a low cost way to try out Android for a possible move from iOS. I'm having fun with Android 12 mainly because of the infinite customisability of the system. It's a tough thing to move from one to the other but I'm getting used to Android by the day and think I may be finally able to wean myself away from Apple. I feel there is much better value in the Android phone world and I'm willing to take a shot now that updates are available for a few years on the Samsung top tier and some of the mid tier phones. BTW, with a nice case you'd never know the A53 was not a top tier phone. I'm looking forward to the Android 13 update.

[jeroendevries]

I think Android doesn't need the "big number updates" as much as back in the days. A lot of things in Android can update without the system update, like Google play system, dialer, launcher, Bluetooth somehow (as I was told), security patches, camera, etc. And most of those updates, also update on older Android versions. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to see new features, but we see them throughout the year, bit by bit.

[brenxxon]

Android 13 is exactly what pixel owners have been begging for. Finally a stable update for the pixel 6

[vincentgo]

The reason the language setting for individual apps is so popular, is for the following reason:
Many apps are written by english speakers and don't have a German/French/Spanish etc. version. So what happens is, the app automatically uses google translate and individually translates the text based on your phones system language setting. This is extremely annoying because it gives out gibberish many times, since single lines of text often miss context for an accurate translation. Most people are fine with english even though it's not their first language.
So before you had to change the phones system language to english just to understand what's going on in some apps. Now it seems you can set individual apps to english, which is most welcome.

[kiminthemix]

I love the changes google made to this new release, specifically the music player progress bar.

[miguelbarajas]

"I'm not gonna say what that looks like", it was then, when my eyes 👀 were opened.

[danseymour]

"I'm not ganna say what that looks like" 6:29 😂

[Solokid]

So Android 13 is the much more refined version of 12 along with some more quality of life changes. Nice. Android 12 and alot of the phones that has it definitely turned some people off because of the bugs and lack of fixes. Hopefully this will be a much better year. And I hope more phones get long term Android update support

[beatlesfansam]

I updated my Pixel 5 to Android 13 on Wednesday. So far, my favorite feature is the change to the media player's aesthetics and functionality.

[verynameboi]

Its awesome that you're doing a review of the buds pro since not a lot of people have reviewed them

[jaykstah]

Loved seeing these features iron out throughout the beta on my Pixel 5a. A lot of small quality of life that has made things a bit easier day to day.

[ThatToyGuy]

The biggest feature of Android 13 I'm looking forward to is in Google Lense. They spoke about a feature that would allow you to take a photo of a shelf of groceries and look for peanut free foods on that shelf (as an example) and it just tells you. As someone with a lot of food allergies that just makes doing groceries so much easier and opens me up to more foods I may have never tried before cause I didn't know they were safe.

[jimmie_g]

With the Pixel and Galaxy series, Android fragmentation is a thing of the past. Pixels got Android 13 right away in August. The newest Galaxy's got One UI 5 in October. My nearly 3 year old A71 got it in November. I hear Samsung is working with Google to bring One UI updates even sooner. Plus 4 or 5 years of updates and security patches.

[rsmartin]

My Samsung S21 updated to Android 13, and now a lot of apps don't load or take forever when I'm on wifi. If it turn wifi off, they load well for the most part. Had no problem with wifi prior to the upgrade.