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Google even before the official one performance new Pixels and Pixel watches Watch released the second beta Androidat 13 QPR1. QPR is an abbreviation for Quaterly Platform Release updates that Google introduced with Androidem 12. These aren't full system updates, but they do bring a few select changes to Pixel phones and a few other high-end smartphones. What exactly does it bring? Android 13 QPR1 Beta 2?

Although there is no official changelist for the second beta yet at the moment Androidu 13 QPR1, some testers and experts on Android, such as Mishaal Rahman, they had the opportunity to "touch" it. One of the biggest changes is the re-adding of battery usage statistics, which count down from the last charge instead of the last 24 hours as in Androidu 12. This makes it much easier to estimate which applications are particularly demanding on the battery. If you're one of those users who don't usually top-up their phone, the new user interface makes it easy to see a multi-day history of battery stats with hourly and daily graphs.

Another change is the new fingerprint animation when using biometric authentication. This is a small "tweak" that adds a check mark to the fingerprint location after authentication is complete, which is useful for making it clear that the action was successful. Support for a new animation for returning to the home screen using the back gesture in the Settings menu is also new.

Minor changes include a new description of the system languages ​​page to tell you how adding more languages ​​to the system will benefit you, minor improvements to the screensaver selection screen, changing the shape of the music player's playback progress bar from a "dot" to a vertical line, or that the Show additional information switch informace) now allows you to add more details like time and weather to your screensaver.

According to Rahman, Google is working on two other features that haven't reached beta testers yet. These are a feature called Clear Calling, which aims to reduce background noise during calls, and a Safety Center feature, which is supposed to be a new center for scanning for viruses and checking device settings. Both of these features could appear in the next beta Androidat 13 QPR1.

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