Google’s vision for Android 13 is to offer a little more of everything.

More Material You, more customizability, more security features. 

Google has outlined its vision for this year’s major Android update, which looks set to continue many of the customization and privacy initiatives that the search giant introduced with last year’s Android 12. Its customizable Material You color schemes will now be available as preset themes and are also expanding to cover third-party apps icons and the media player. There are also new security features, including a dedicated Privacy and Security menu.

The direction isn’t likely to come as much of a surprise to anyone who’s kept up with Android 13’s early betas. But today’s announcements, made to coincide with the search giant’s annual Google I/O developer conference, see the company lay out its overarching vision for this year’s major Android update. The search giant is releasing Android 13’s second public beta today to coincide with the announcements.

After last year’s Material You customizable themes feature, Android can already match its color scheme to that of your phone’s wallpaper. This year, media controls are also receiving a similar Material You-style overhaul and will be able to extract colors from the album art of the music being played. Another new feature for those that don’t want or need their phone’s theme to exactly match their wallpaper is a series of optional preset color schemes to choose from.

A new Security and Privacy settings page is being added later this year to collect all of your critical data privacy information in one place. It’s designed to encourage Android users to address any security issues that might crop up.

Away from Android phones themselves, Google is also emphasizing the work it’s doing on interconnectivity with other devices. It plans to add fast-pairing support for the incoming Matter smart home standard this fall to make it quick and easy to use an Android phone to add supported smart home devices to your network. Support for the new power-efficient Bluetooth LE Audio standard is also on the way in Android 13.

A final feature worth mentioning: Android 13 will let users set system languages on a per-app basis, a feature that Samat says is helpful for multilingual users who rely on different languages in different situations. “If you’re using a social media app, you might use one language. But if you’re banking, you might use another language,” he explains.

After the chaotic rollout of Android 12, it’s perhaps reassuring to see that Google’s focus this year is on refining rather than revolutionizing Android. There’s no massive change of direction here, just a steady series of tweaks and improvements to Android’s existing initiatives.