One Pixel 4 user received the Android 13 update early, by accident
He received a notification to update to Android 13, and installed the update, not realizing what it was. As a reminder, the stable Android 13 build is expected to roll out in July or August. In any case, when the user installed this update, Google Pay stopped working. He tried to reinstall the app via an APK, but that did not help. The same goes for restoring the phone to its factory settings. Now, this may be a special Android 13 Beta update we’re looking at. It could be a version Google sends out to its employees, and it accidentally became available to this user, as it’s not your regular beta update users received. That’s just one possibility, though, we cannot know for sure.
Android 13 won’t deliver a major redesign of the OS
That being said, Android 13 won’t be a major redesign of the platform. Google did talk about the update during Google I/O, while we’ve already seen it through Beta updates. This will be more of a refinement of what Google delivered with Android 12. Let’s just hope that Pixel phones won’t be as buggy once this update lands. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro were quite buggy when they launched with Android 12, and it took Google months to fix most of those bugs. Android 13 is coming to the Pixel 4, 4 XL, 4a, 4a 5G, 5, 5a, 6, and 6 Pro. The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro will launch with Android 13 out of the box later this year. Those two phones are expected to arrive in September or October.
