• Any gotchas or niceties you've found on Android 13?

    From Wally J@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 8 05:36:11 2023
    Any gotchas or niceties you've found moving from Android 12 to Android 13?

    I just got this software-update notice on my 3-year old Samsung phone.
    Update ready to install. One UI 5 Upgrade (Android 13)
    Version A326USQU8CWB4/A326UOYN8CWB4 1,842.26MB, sec patch 2/1/2023

    T-Mobile gave me my free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G on Android 11 about three
    years ago. When I ported to Android 12, all hell broke loose in that most
    of my apps disappeared (perhaps because I had created a one-tap shortcut
    that periodically wiped out my Android ID & the GSF Android tracking IDs).

    For normal people (who have no privacy) one major difference between
    Android 11 and 12 was the ability to snap screenshots of protected
    activities disappeared - and the screen rotation because so fancy that it screwed up a lot when you were facing the screen (proximity detection).

    Other than that, I don't recall, offhand, any other major faux pas when
    moving from Android 11 to 12 - but now - Samsung is getting ready to update
    me to Android 13 three years after I obtained the free Android phone.

    Any gotchas or niceties you've found when moving from Android 12 to 13?

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  • From David Higton@21:1/5 to Wally J on Fri Sep 8 16:08:20 2023
    In message <udeps3$1hbb1$1@paganini.bofh.team>
    Wally J <walterjones@invalid.nospam> wrote:

    Any gotchas or niceties you've found moving from Android 12 to Android 13?

    I just got this software-update notice on my 3-year old Samsung phone.
    Update ready to install. One UI 5 Upgrade (Android 13)
    Version A326USQU8CWB4/A326UOYN8CWB4 1,842.26MB, sec patch 2/1/2023

    T-Mobile gave me my free Samsung Galaxy A32-5G on Android 11 about three years ago. When I ported to Android 12, all hell broke loose in that most
    of my apps disappeared (perhaps because I had created a one-tap shortcut
    that periodically wiped out my Android ID & the GSF Android tracking IDs).

    For normal people (who have no privacy) one major difference between
    Android 11 and 12 was the ability to snap screenshots of protected
    activities disappeared - and the screen rotation because so fancy that it screwed up a lot when you were facing the screen (proximity detection).

    Other than that, I don't recall, offhand, any other major faux pas when moving from Android 11 to 12 - but now - Samsung is getting ready to update me to Android 13 three years after I obtained the free Android phone.

    Any gotchas or niceties you've found when moving from Android 12 to 13?

    I've not yet noticed any difference. I'm not a power user, though.

    David

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