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Thanks for the report. I will route this to the appropriate internal team and update this when I hear back from them.

+1, can confirm it doesn't work on Android 13:=

2022-07-15 11:26:15.023   589-5347  PackageManager          pid-589                              W  Intent does not match component's intent filter: Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.wearable.BIND_LISTENER cmp=xxx/xxx.WatchMessageReceiver }
2022-07-15 11:26:15.023   589-5347  PackageManager          pid-589                              W  Access blocked: ComponentInfo{xxx/xxx.WatchMessageReceiver}
2022-07-15 11:26:15.023   589-5347  ActivityManager         pid-589                              W  Unable to start service Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.wearable.BIND_LISTENER cmp=xxx/xxx.WatchMessageReceiver } U=0: not found

Note that I've been able to make it work by:

• Adding <action android:name="com.google.android.gms.wearable.BIND_LISTENER" /> in the intent filter
• Removing <data android:scheme="wear" android:host="*" />

But I feel like this is not something we should do

I'm really afraid Android 13 might get released as-is, breaking WearOS app communication 😨😨

If you're not targeting API 33 you're not affected by the bug. So it's a big bug, and yes we of course expected more from Google, but you can always target the api level later when it's fixed.

But I agree this is kind of desperating that more than 1.5 month after the first report nothing has changed.

As an interim update on this issue: we've been already working on the fix that should be available by Android 13 release. The fix requires thorough testing, I'll keep this bug updated as soon as we have more to share. Thanks!

@comment#9 The Play Store will eventually require targeting API 33, then 34, etc, so accepting this regression in a customer release would be a time ticking bomb for Wear OS apps.

Thank you for the update @comment#10

This issues has been already given high priority (updated external priority on this bug to reflect internal status). The fix is on the way and going through the final rounds of testing, so the roll out is slated to next couple of weeks.

To reiterate what have been mentioned earlier on this bug: this issue affects only apps targeting Android 13, so the apps won't break unless you bump targetSDK version to 33. In case if you want to start working on app compatibility for Android 13 behaviour changes, you could use Compatibility framework to toggle on/off the changes individually for isolated testing.