The Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional will virtually definitely be the primary telephones to ship with Android 13 on board, however some older telephones may truly get up to date to Android 13 earlier than these handsets launch, as we’re prone to see the subsequent Pixel fashions in October, whereas Android 13 now seems to be virtually sure to reach in September.

The most recent proof for that comes from Google’s August safety bulletin (opens in new tab), which – as noticed by Droid Life (opens in new tab) – notes that Android 13 “can have a default safety patch degree of 2022-09-01.”

Provided that Google releases safety patches each month, that means Android 13 will launch in September, since in any other case, it will presumably have a default safety patch degree from one other month.

That mentioned, that is for the AOSP (Android Open Supply Venture) model, which isn’t the model that’s pushed to most smartphones. That may generally come later, however in most years Pixel telephones get their replace on the identical day because the AOSP model, so in case you have a Pixel 6 or one other Pixel telephone that’s nonetheless supported, then there’s a really excessive probability you’ll get Android 13 in September.

Precisely which date it’s going to arrive is much less clear, however Droid Life speculates that we may see Android 13 on September 6, as Google usually pushes updates out on the primary Monday of a month, and whereas September 5 is that Monday, that’s additionally Labor Day, so shifting it to the Tuesday would make sense.

After all that’s simply hypothesis for now, and whereas Pixel house owners may see Android 13 then, most different handsets will get it weeks and even months later, as is typical with Android updates.

Evaluation: numerous proof for September

That is compelling proof that we’ll see Android 13 in September, however then a September launch all the time appeared probably.

The most important earlier proof of this got here from Google’s Android 13 roadmap, which for a very long time has advised September can be when the completed model would land. Technically September isn’t named, however given the spacing on the chart, it seems to be like September was the goal, as you possibly can see within the picture above.

The one actual proof that we wouldn’t see it in September is that Android 12 didn’t land till October of final yr, however Android 11 and Android 10 each landed in September of their launch years. So September seems to be very probably, placing it head-to-head with iOS 15.