Android 13 delivers over 100 bug fixes for Google Pixels
Most monthly updates for Pixels deliver at least a couple of fixes for specific issues, but the recent Android 13 update has pulled out all of the stops, delivering somewhere around 150 bug fixes, according to my hasty counting. These tweaks cover a range from exceedingly minor corner-case app-level adjustments (“Fix for issue in Phone app causing some text to appear invisible while managing blocked numbers in dark mode”), to more potentially noticeable improvements in fingerprint sensor and networking performance on the Pixel 6, 6 Pro, and 6a.
I can’t, in good faith, includethe full list of the Android 13 bug fixes(there are just too damn many of them!), but I’ve cut out a handful of highlights that caught my eye:
Battery & Charging
Biometrics
Display & Graphics
Location & GPS
Google’s recent Pixels have been known for theirmiddling fingerprint sensor performanceandconnectivity-related problemsranging from cellular signal strength issues to dropped calls and all sorts of odd behaviors. Google’s changelog here makes it sound like the company is still trying to address some of these complaints to improve the experience, as these issues can be pretty frustrating to deal with. But even relatively minor fixes covering corner cases that almost never crop up appear to be both documented and addressed, too.
The statement at the beginning of the changelog implies that these are fixes since the last Android 12-based update, but at least a couple of these, like the Settings app crashing when opening “password & accounts,” were tied to betas, so the list may be plumped out somewhat with beta-specific changes that Google didn’t explicitly note as such — and which therefore address issues most customers never experienced. We’ve reached out to Google for more information on that, and we’ll let you know what we find out.
For a company with a reputation for buggy and frequently broken software, this both reinforces that image (look at the sheer number of bugs!) and shows how hard the company is working to address it (that’s a lot of fixes!)
In the meantime, those of you considering waiting before installing the Android 13 update have a decent incentive to pick it up early — this is ahugelist of tweaks, fixes, and improvements.
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