With the rollout of Android 13 to the Pixel 6 and 6a, Google posted an interesting warning on the system image website: Once you flash Android 13, you can never go back to the old version. That’s still the case for anyone wanting a fully functional phone, but now, Google has posted an Android 12 “developer support image” that will let developers roll back their phones even after upgrading. The “developer” branding on the image means it’s not fully functional, but it will be good enough for app testing.
Not being able to roll back would be terrible if Android 13 came with some sort of gamebreaking bug, so this is a welcome release.
When you read that companies do install physical fuses into your mobile phone. To prevent you from downgrading an operating system. And then they circumvent that and you can still do just that. You have to ask yourself what is wrong with this picture.