That was a pleasent surprise by the Nothing team, personally I had high doubts they’d make the final release of OS 3.0 for December, let alone just before Christmas. As an avid Nothing Phone (2) user who avoided testing the Beta, I have to say I am pleasently surprised:

  • Vibration for custom ringtones and notifications is finally working again! Even though it doesn’t when selecting a tone from the Glyph menu.
  • There is now a slider to adjust vibration strength, while it is very subtle, it’s at least an improvement over having none at all.
  • Haptic feedback while typing at first seemed to have been improved slightly, with the sounds from the vibration motor being less loud, however after another phone restart, it’s back to OS 2.6 levels and I can’t revert it.
  • Finally being able to set a custom charging limit is great!
  • While I like the new clock designs, I’m still using the well known N-Dot style we’ve always had. I’m glad you decided to keep it as an option.
  • Same goes for the N-Dot font inside the settings menu, although I really dig the new font, I still switched back to the dotted style.
  • I mostly enjoy the new quick settings menu and the new widget menu.
  • I tried the new smart drawer option, and the result was fairly decent, but can’t compete with what I, as a human, would do. Some of my shopping apps were listed under “Lifestyle” instead of shopping for example. Being an EV owner it did however correctly organize most of my EV related apps under “Travel”, but failed sorting the app of my car there, that again was listed under “Lifestyle”. I reverted back to the old drawer for now.

What I don’t really like is the way you are handling the release of the Nothing Gallery. It suddenly appeared for everybody, even OS 2.6 users, on the Play Store, it doesn’t seem to integrate with the camera app by default, there is no dedicated post or introduction here on the Nothing Community and it is lacking some basic functionality in terms of features (gif support, editing, set as wallpaper,…) which so far, even though OS 3.0 is now labeled as stable, makes it only barely useable as the only solution for a gallery app.

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    I don’t feel you are listening to users as nothing phone 2 user asking for camera update but you did not provide any update or give any official statement on this

      spacexfan your locked folder photos are stores in offline mode only within Google Photos app. It is accessible only untill Google photos app uninstall or reset.

        Thanks for the 3.0 Update, it comes with really interesting features and expecting more to come.

        But I want to drag your attention to a request.

        To Remove the Google App from my phone instead of disabling it.

        Having two identical apps doesn’t make any sense to me. The Nothing Gallery app is really awesome as compared to Google gallery, especially the smoothness. Except for few features like Google backup, timeline_story and album creation dedicated to each person in the gallery.

        Currently, I have uninstalled the Nothing Gallery app from Play Store. But, hoping to use it as my solo Gallery app in upcoming updates, if possible. 👍

          Rob ⚡️ I liked the update; it’s functional and well-designed. However, do you think more unique features will be added to the Phone (2) in the future?

            PiyushPandey_jFozthG2WR To my knowledge, many manufacturers aren’t allowed to exclude certain core Google apps if they want to use Google Play Services, Google Photos being one of them. Even Samsung still has Google Photos even though they have their own gallery app since years. The same goes for some other brands.

                Noice! Looking forward to checking this out on my 2(a) … It feels nice to skip a beta for once and wait for general release 😅 … it’s coming to the UK soon, right?☺

                Hi !!! very happy to enjoy the new NOS 3.0… but with the 2.6 I used to have the button to turn off/on the GPS / Localisation on my main page, and I use it quite often…but now with the brand new 3.0 that button has disappeared

                How can I put it back??

                mr_payne If you’d simply read the first post, you’d know the answer: Nothing Phone (1), (2a) Plus and CMF Phone will receive their general release beginning of 2025, so most likely sometime in January.

                  Issue with Nothing OS 3.0 NOTIFICATION PANEL SHOWING LAG WHEN OPENED AND LITTLE BIT BUGGED WHEN TRYIN TO SWIPE DOWN

                  A security issue when i disable quick settings panel on lock screen it works but when there are too many notifications and overflow into icons at the end, i can click on these icons and it will take me to expanded view with quick settings panel as well so there is no point in disable.