{"id":47859,"date":"2022-08-17T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/some-pixels-are-meant-to-get-android-12-instead-of-android-13\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T08:49:40","slug":"some-pixels-are-meant-to-get-android-12-instead-of-android-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/some-pixels-are-meant-to-get-android-12-instead-of-android-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Pixels are meant to get Android 12 instead of Android 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"_s\">\n<div class=\"_hl\" style=\"max-width:1200px\"><picture class=\"_7e\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;aspect-ratio:1200 \/ 675\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen.jpg.webp 1920w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-300w-170h.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-1200w-675h.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-768w-432h.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-1536w-864h.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-16w-9h.jpg.webp 16w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-32w-18h.jpg.webp 32w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-28w-16h.jpg.webp 28w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-56w-32h.jpg.webp 56w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-64w-36h.jpg.webp 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-712w-400h.jpg.webp 712w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-1000w-563h.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-792w-446h.jpg.webp 792w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-1280w-720h.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-840w-472h.jpg.webp 840w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-1340w-754h.jpg.webp 1340w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-770w-433h.jpg.webp 770w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-356w-200h.jpg.webp 356w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/google-pixel-6a-home-screen-675w-380h.jpg.webp 675w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"_Ql _il\">\n<p>Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_8g _r _eb\">\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google has reportedly responded after some Pixels received Android 12 instead of Android 13.<\/li>\n<li>The company says it didn&#8217;t make a mistake and that this update was indeed intentional.<\/li>\n<li>The Pixel maker says it&#8217;ll tweak the messaging in the Android 12 update notification.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_r _eb\">\n<p>Now, Google has responded to the news in a statement to <em>9to5Google<\/em>.  The search giant explained that it indeed meant to push out an Android 12 update to some Pixel owners running an older version of Android 12. It just turned out that this older release coincided with Android 13&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_r _eb\">\n<p>Check out the statement below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On August 15, Pixel devices running an old version of Android 12 received a notification about a previously released Android 12 update with bug fixes.  The messaging in the notification was confusing with the timing of Android 13, and is currently being changed for clarity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Google&#8217;s statement further stresses that this Android 12 update is separate from the Android 13 OTA and that it could take a few weeks for the new update to hit your device.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_r _eb\">\n<p>We&#8217;re glad to see the company tweaking the notification for this Android 12 update, as it could&#8217;ve probably avoided a lot of confusion in the first place.  The notification originally suggested that Android 12 was a new update (complete with \u201cintroducing Android 12\u201d header), while there was no mention of Android 13 still coming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"_Mi _g _h\">Comments<svg class=\"_Qc\" viewbox=\"0 0 1780 1017.4\"><path d=\"M1742.9 37.2l-.3-.3c-49.6-49.4-129.8-49.2-179.2.3L890.5 710.4v.2L216.7 37.4C193 13.9 160.9.7 127.5.6 57.3.4.2 57.2 0 127.5c-.1 33.8 13.2 66.3 37.1 90.2l768 766.3c50.1 45.8 127.3 44.2 175.4-3.7l762.4-763c49.5-49.8 49.5-130.3 0-180.1z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority TL;DR Google has reportedly responded after some Pixels received Android 12 instead of Android 13. The company says it didn&#8217;t make a mistake and that this update was indeed intentional. The Pixel maker says it&#8217;ll tweak the messaging in the Android 12 update notification. Now, Google has responded to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/some-pixels-are-meant-to-get-android-12-instead-of-android-13\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Pixels are meant to get Android 12 instead of Android 13<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47059,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/google-is-accidentally-pushing-android-12-instead-of-android-13-to-some-pixel-users\/","url_meta":{"origin":47859,"position":0},"title":"Google is accidentally pushing Android 12 instead of Android 13 to some Pixel users","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Some Pixel owners have been re-seeded the Android 12 update After months of beta testing, Google released Android 13 to AOSP and started rolling out the update for all compatible Pixel phones from August 15. 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