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What's new in Android 13: automatically cleans up the clipboard contents after 1 hour

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 12:07:35 09月13日 Update

CTOnews.com8 news on March 17, yesterday, Google has pushed the official update of Android 13 to the Pixel model, the company also announced that Android 13 has been officially open source, and the source code of the new Android 13 system has been uploaded to the Android open source project (AOSP).

Google has introduced a number of improvements in Android 13, including an improvement in protecting user privacy that the Android 13 system will automatically clean up the clipboard after a period of time to ensure that malicious App cannot access these user information. This means that in the Android 13 system, sensitive information such as credit card account numbers, passwords and mobile phone numbers saved by users on the clipboard will not always exist.

Google explained: "this is to prevent unexpected clipboard access. If you copy sensitive data such as email address, mobile phone number, login credentials and other sensitive data on the device, Android will automatically clean up your clipboard history after a period of time."

It's worth mentioning that Google didn't say how long it would take for the clipboard information to disappear, so 9to5Google tested it, and the results showed that in Android 13, the clipboard information would be automatically cleaned up in an hour.

In addition, some password management applications have previously provided the same function, such as Enpass will clean up the content copied to the clipboard after the time set by the user to protect the user's sensitive information.

CTOnews.com learned that the official version of Android 13 further enhances the Material You theme introduced in Android 12, improves existing privacy controls, and introduces the ability to copy and paste between supported Android devices.

Xiaomi Community announced yesterday that Xiaomi has pushed the official MIUI development version of Android 13 to Xiaomi 12 Pro, Xiaomi 12 and Redmi K50 Pro users who have applied for the Android 13 MIUI development version.

In addition, OPPO also announced that the public beta version of ColorOS 13 is suitable for the official version of Android 13, and users of OPPO Find X5, Find X5 Pro and OnePlus 10 Pro can have a fresh experience.