Under special features you can activate the side bar. You can basically set what apps you want to be able to open on floating windows. It actually makes the multitasking quite nice. New notification control panel is not available to me I don't know why. 13.0.4 here....
You can try and change region for the Vodacom Unit in order to force the update to come through. Vodacom really sucks when it comes to the updates.
For the Dual SIM ones go to the update settings and toggle to receive updates early it should do the trick.
Has anyone done the update on Miui 13 on their Note 10 pro. I did it last night. I am kinda hot and cold about it. It looks a lot smoother than before and snappy. Some nice additions here and there with the sidebar. But I do not see the "new control panel". The "new widgets" as well are...
Have you tried to go to settings --> Apps find the calendar app and and do a clear cache / clear data. It should reset it to its original state and the it should sync again only to yours account calendar. Unless somehow it has synced the birthdays to your account. If it has not then clearing...
I was also very tempted to apply for the Nokia 8 Scirocco but given I already have the Nokia 8 plain it makes little sense of getting a so similar phone.