At MWC 2023 in Barcelona, Google has introduced a number of useful options coming to your Android smartphone through its subsequent Android 13 replace.

As anticipated, the modifications are extra incremental than you’d see from a bigger Android 14 overhaul, however however, the instruments being added to the very best Android telephones are nonetheless price taking note of. They embrace new Emoji Kitchen brews, handier Google preserve notes, and fewer noise in Google Meet calls (through Google’s weblog (opens in new tab)).

The updates must be rolled out over the following few days and weeks, so be sure you test your gadget’s replace settings to see when you possibly can improve to the most recent Android OS.

Google Preserve widget

If you happen to depend on Google Preserve notes to maintain your life so as, you’ll be excited to listen to that the app is getting an Android widget that allows you to see notes in your telephone’s residence display screen. This could embrace your procuring record observe that you would be able to tick off as you go across the retailer, a picture of some particular merchandise it’s essential look out for, or any of your many different reminders. 

Plus, these of you with a WearOS watch just like the Galaxy Watch 5 or the Pixel Watch will profit from two new shortcuts, permitting you to create notes and to-do lists with a few faucets in your watch face. 

Google Meet noise cancellation

This characteristic was already out there on some Android gadgets, but it surely’s lastly rolling out to extra of them. Due to noise cancellation, the following time it’s a must to be a part of a gathering out of your smartphone you gained’t want to fret a lot concerning the noise round you – like that annoying neighbor mowing their garden, or the noise of the cafe you’re working in – shall be filtered out. The system isn’t in a position to cover all background noise, but it surely does a reasonably stable job of constructing callers simpler to know.

New Emoji Kitchen combos

Emoji Kitchen is the Gboard characteristic that mechanically melds your Android emojis to create a mix that higher captures your temper. If, for instance, you need to talk that you simply discover one thing each mind-blowing and hilarious, Gboard can merge the exploding head and crying laughing emojis into one picture to seize that emotion. 

This Android replace brings new attainable emoji mash-ups that can assist you convey an excellent wider vary of feelings. Within the teaser gif above we see {that a} basketball fan is ready to categorical their love of the sport by merging the basketball and glowing coronary heart emoji. 

Improved zoom for Chrome

Zooming in on pages in Google Chrome was like zooming in on a static picture; the phrases and icons get bigger however disappear off the display screen. The upcoming Android replace will assist you to zoom on a web page as much as 300% whereas nonetheless sustaining the web page’s structure and preserving all the pieces on-screen. It’s also possible to set a most popular content material dimension, so that every web page is mechanically zoomed in whenever you load it.

This characteristic gained’t roll out till March, however you possibly can entry it through the Chrome Beta and going into the app’s Accessibility Settings.