For a deep dive into what's new, check out our ongoing Feature Drop changelog, but we have a quick rundown here: These Quarterly Platform Releases (or QPR for short) bring a few select new features that are mostly targeted at the company's Pixel phone lineup. Google started releasing bigger mid-cycle updates to Android, and Android 13 is no exception. What's new in Android 13's March Feature Drop With the release coming to us on August 15, 2022. It was expected that Android 13 would launch earlier than other recent Android releases as the first developer preview came out in February, and in the end, things panned out that way. Devices older than the Pixel 4 and 4a are cut off from further Android version upgrades, with the former only getting updates until October 2022 and the latter until August 2023. However, as always, the company waved goodbye to some of its older phones. Like every year, the newest release of Android rolled out to Pixel phones first. After that, the company focused on improving the last few bits and pieces leading up to the August 2022 launch of the software. The first Android 13 beta was released in May 2022 and was publicly available to anyone brave enough to use beta firmware on their Pixel phone. We got our first glimpse at Android 13 in February 2022 when Google released the first developer preview of the software to help developers get their apps ready for the stable release. For a more streamlined and opinionated dive into the operating system, check out our Android 13 review.

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