Nothing’s Android 16-powered replace brings a bunch of recent options to its telephones, together with its personal spin on Google’s Live Updates. With Nothing OS 4.0, customers can monitor a supply, journey, or timer by glancing utilizing the Glyph Interface — the dot-matrix on the Cellphone 3’s rear, or the system of lights on the Cellphone 3A and older fashions.
Google’s Reside Updates look slightly totally different relying on which Nothing system you utilize. A GIF shared by the corporate exhibits a lightweight on the Cellphone 3A regularly lighting as much as match the progress of a Reside Replace, whereas the Cellphone 3’s dot-matrix exhibits an animated progress bar. Reside Updates can seem on a tool’s lock display screen, too.
Along with this function, Nothing is launching its AI-powered Essentials App tool that permits customers to create their very own widgets by offering a written description to a chatbot. In the meantime, updates to Nothing OS add extra minimalist native app icons, new lock display screen clocks, and animations that reply with “sharper tactility and depth, making each swipe and faucet really feel smoother.”
Now you can open two floating apps directly and change between them by swiping up from the underside of your display screen to attenuate them, or swiping all the way down to make them full-screen. There’s additionally a further new darkish mode with deeper blacks than the unique.
Nothing is rolling out just a few options particular to the Phone 3 as well, similar to a “pocket mode” that routinely turns off the system’s Glyph Matrix when it detects that it’s in a consumer’s pocket, together with new “toys” that show an hourglass and present the place of the Moon on the dot-matrix.
Nothing OS 4.0 will start rolling out to the Cellphone 3 beginning in the present day, earlier than increasing to different units within the lineup “over the approaching weeks.” CMF units will obtain the replace earlier than the tip of the yr, however the Nothing Cellphone 3A Lite must wait until early 2026.