Development of Android 13 continues with new betas of its quarterly updates focused on continuing to add improvements to the Google Pixel. Last December, after rolling out Android 13 QPR1 as one of the biggest Pixel Feature Drops to date, Google released Android 13 QPR2 Beta a few days later to anticipate what new things will be coming to its system this spring. exploitation.
A month after the launch of the first beta of Android 13 QPR2, the company has already released Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 in the Google Pixel compatibility add more news, more improvements and bug fixesas we will see below:
What’s new in Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2
The OTA of Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 is now available for Pixel 4a, Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6a and Pixel 7 who are enrolled in the Android Beta program. Since Settings > System > System Update can force the download and installation of this new version.
With this release, Google reports that The following issues have been resolved:
- Fixed an issue with the System UI that sometimes caused the home screen to become unresponsive.
- Fixed an issue where after switching back to normal video capture mode from slow motion mode in the Google Camera app, the app would continue to capture slow motion video if the capture speed was changed between 1/8x and 1/4x slow motion.
But there are other known issues that have not yet been fixed, such as the following errors recognized by Google:
- The recent apps list sometimes becomes unresponsive if the screen orientation is changed while the list is open.
- In some cases, when entering and exiting Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode from an app after changing the screen orientation, the system settings app crashes with the message “Settings keeps stopping” and you can’t open system settings. application.
- A problem with the system UI can sometimes cause it to crash due to a null pointer exception.
These issues will be resolved in upcoming Android 13 QPR2 betas, so the stable release scheduled for March this year arrives with all known issues resolved.
In the Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2 release notes, Google limited itself to announcing fixed and unresolved bugs. He did not announce the news of Android 13 QPR2 Beta 2, but they are already discovered.
One of the main novelties discovered in Android 13 QPR2 are the 21 new emojis of Unicode 15 that have already reached Google’s mobile operating system. We now find emojis of a restless face, more colorful hearts (pink, blue and gray), pushing hand (left and right), moose, donkey, wing, crow, goose, jellyfish, hyacinth, ginger, pea , fan, comb, maracas, flute, Khanda (religious symbol) and WiFi.
Another novelty is hidden in the options for developers, with a new option that allows us to force monochrome icons so that they have the same color as thematic icons from the home screen. So there will be no mixed colored icons and monochrome icons on the desktop.
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