after testing android tv 13 in beta for months google has finally announced the android 13s stable build android tv 13 on paper retains the design elements and ui from the previous generation however the company has made several behind the scene changes that change the overall tv using experience for users heres everything you need to know about android tv 13 operating system read alsohow to enable android 13 themed icons a stepbystep guidepreviously only googles apps could change colours according to your phones background a sizable number of thirdparty apps have now also added support for themed icons on devices with the recent android 13 upgrade heres how you can switch from regular icons to android 13s theme icons on youras mentioned android 13 does not include any major user interface improvements or changes most of the changes are background changes for instance google is now offering new apis to developers to help them optimise their apps for its bigscreen operating system and make their apps more usable adjustable frame ratesone of the most noticeable changes is the ability to adjust the refresh rate manually until android 12 users didnt have an option to manually choose the refresh rate for their android tvs or androidpowered streaming boxes like nvidia sheild or chromecast adjustable resolutionwhile some android tvpowered streaming devices allowed users to set the resolution most of the tvs that come with builtin android tv or google tv operating system do not include this option this has changed with the android 13 update going forward users will see the option to choose the resolution for their tv other features and changesandroid tv 13 also brings a handful of powersaving options for instance the os now includes the option to automatically pause the show or movie when hdmi mode changes in addition to this the update also brings new audiomanager api changes that bring anticipatory audio routes for specific formats and speakers the os also include inputdevice apis android tv 13 official changelogmedia poweranticipatory audio route lets apps identify the routed device and supported formats before creating an audiotrackuser controls for preferred resolution and refresh rate on supported hdmi source devicespower management improvements for lowpowered standbyinput control accessibilityhardware mute switch states are reflected in the system privacy controlsupdated user controls for assistant microphone access on the remoteglobal preferences for enabling audio descriptions across appsnew keyboard layouts api allows the selection of different language layouts for external keyboardshdmi tunerbetter handling of hdmi state changes on hdmi source devicesimproved language selection for hdmi source devicestuner hal 20 with performance optimizations twin tuner and isdbt multilayer supportframework for interactive tv use cases as an extension to tif