Nothing’s Android 16 update puts a progress bar on the back of your phone

Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a clump of caller features to its phones, including its ain rotation on Google’s Live Updates. With Nothing OS 4.0, users tin way a delivery, ride, oregon timer by glancing utilizing the Glyph Interface — the dot-matrix connected the Phone 3’s rear, oregon the strategy of lights connected the Phone 3A and older models.

Google’s Live Updates look a small antithetic depending connected which Nothing instrumentality you use. A GIF shared by the institution shows a airy connected the Phone 3A gradually lighting up to lucifer the advancement of a Live Update, portion the Phone 3’s dot-matrix shows an animated advancement bar. Live Updates tin look connected a device’s fastener screen, too.

In summation to this feature, Nothing is launching its AI-powered Essentials App tool that allows users to make their ain widgets by providing a written statement to a chatbot. Meanwhile, updates to Nothing OS adhd much minimalist autochthonal app icons, caller fastener surface clocks, and animations that respond with “sharper tactility and depth, making each swipe and pat consciousness smoother.”

You tin present unfastened 2 floating apps astatine erstwhile and power betwixt them by swiping up from the bottommost of your surface to minimize them, oregon swiping down to marque them full-screen.  There’s besides an further caller acheronian mode with deeper blacks than the original.

Nothing is rolling retired a fewer features circumstantial to the Phone 3 arsenic well, specified arsenic a “pocket mode” that automatically turns disconnected the device’s Glyph Matrix erstwhile it detects that it’s successful a user’s pocket, on with caller “toys” that show an hourglass and amusement the presumption of the Moon connected the dot-matrix.

Nothing OS 4.0 volition statesman rolling retired to the Phone 3 starting today, earlier expanding to different devices successful the lineup “over the coming weeks.” CMF devices volition person the update earlier the extremity of the year, but the Nothing Phone 3A Lite volition person to hold till aboriginal 2026.