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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 😨😨

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.

That must be some really intense testing as we are 10 days later and still nothing on sight. I don't want to be a P2 issue if that's what a P1 is.

My bet is that Google still targets API 32 (or even lower) internally so they don't care and didn't even saw the issue before our report.

This issue is fixed. The fix has been rolled out via GMSCore and will also require using the latest com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:18.0.0 release.

Note that you don’t need to add BIND_LISTENER manually, it has been deprecated for a long time and it continue to remain so (read more at https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/04/deprecation-of-bindlistener.html).

Appreciate all the feedback and patience.

Hey @comment#23 I can confirm the fix doesn't work. Tested on Pixel 6 Pro running Android 13 and a Pixel Watch running WearOS 3.5, things are working great if my app targets API 32 but doesn't when targetting API 33 using com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:18.0.0.

After 4 months of testing, it looks like it's broken.

Well that's possible but I've tested things carefully and targetting API 32 immediately fixes the behavior so I'm confident this is the root cause of the issue