Nothing’s Android 16 Update Puts A Progress Bar On The Back Of Your Phone

Nothing’s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch 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, aliases timer by glancing utilizing nan Glyph Interface — nan dot-matrix connected nan Phone 3’s rear, aliases nan strategy of lights connected nan Phone 3A and older models.

Google’s Live Updates look a small different depending connected which Nothing instrumentality you use. A GIF shared by nan institution shows a ray connected nan Phone 3A gradually lighting up to lucifer nan advancement of a Live Update, while nan 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 create their ain widgets by providing a written explanation to a chatbot. Meanwhile, updates to Nothing OS adhd much minimalist autochthonal app icons, caller fastener surface clocks, and animations that respond pinch “sharper tactility and depth, making each swipe and pat consciousness smoother.”

You tin now unfastened 2 floating apps astatine erstwhile and move betwixt them by swiping up from nan bottommost of your surface to minimize them, aliases swiping down to make them full-screen.  There’s besides an further caller acheronian mode pinch deeper blacks than nan original.

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

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