I bought nothing phone 2a plus for my mother, first nothing product back in August 2024. I’m not a regular user of this but some things I want to discuss that could have been better:

  1. Low brightness isn’t that kind of low which I used to see in my Samsung device (Samsung A55). It was pretty much low or I should say fair enough when I bought this phone maybe till September or October security update in last year.

  2. Dark mode implementation isn’t decent enough. It’s not dark anywhere I must say it’s greyish black.

  3. I heard that nothing has great records in terms of software update but it’s still running on December security patch as of Feb 14.

  4. One of the major issue I noticed that is in lock screen widgets. When you have dark mode on with some lockscreen widgets; entire wallpaper is covered by some kind of greenish tone and weird reddish pixels are clearly visible on the widgets.

    As I said earlier, I’m not a regular user of this phone but I must say these things could have been implemented carefully. It’s clearly visible and looking weird

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    Sayan_Acharyya i think you are now to the comunity, nothing lags in terms of updates… no security patches release every month …samsung , one plus and vivo are better in this aspects.

    Lot many open bugs unaddressed especially with nothing 2a plus really worried that the last device released was 2a plus but still all updates and security patches reaching very late to the users.

    Also im not recommending nothing to anyone as a primary device only enthusiasts who want to try nothing os just for widgets can try …

      Hey i want to more privacy when we talk about app lock, is it possible for nothing team to seperate app lock password from device lock password. It is very easy for anyone to unlock all the files by main lovk password.

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        Spike

        Hey Guys, I think the navigating bar isn’t very buty, so I use it hidin. But can we pleas have a option to just hide it in specific apps, because in some apps like signal, earth or weather it looks nice, but in maps or Firefox or on the home screen it just very ugly and I like to hide it . The second thing is that it needs screen space that we could need in a different way, specific in quer Format

        An ather thing is that I use many unpopular open source apps that are very nice but don’t supported in the icon pack, so I suggest a ai based nothing-style- icon-generator witch runns on your phone and you can chat with it and let it try unlimited times, if you have a good solution, there will be a option to share it with the nothing teem that Will add it to the next update of the existing icon pack so this will grow very fast.

        I would really like a absolute dark mode too, be cause it’s better battery life and it’s also very nothing, but what I really hate that on my CMF it switch many times a day to lite mode, why we can’t set standards in the case that it will always return.

        But awesome is jet, really like it!

          Pls implement the connections of no of devices and set limit devices in hotspot settings

          I switched from Realme to Nothing. The only major issue I am facing is that now I cannot see who all are connected to my hotspot and the ability to remove them or block them from my hotspot. It is a feature which is the “major missing” for me and I didn’t see a lot of people talk about it. Idk why!!? I wish it to be added by the next update.

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          where is switch camera to front and back toggle while recording video ?

          nothing missing some really good features and sticking to very basic phone.

          I believe in smart features need to be set up like double tab back panel to take screenshot and giving options to choose ai … for example I like copilot more than Gemini or chat gpt

          and I like samsung mail app more than gmail … need some of the good apps

            Need change the day and date Font in the lock screen .that is so boring

            Also the colour of time . When the bg colour is white the time can’t see properly

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            I can’t be the only one who would love a place to doodle when I’m processing information.

            A resizeable canvas widget for quick sketches would be useful in all kinds of ways.

            At minimum, it could just have a single brush stroke style, be monochrome, have a short undo history, and have a share/save feature.

            I’m not sure you’d even need an eraser, once you go there, you start wanting different brush sizes.

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            We need updates for privacy currently anyone who knows that right swiping shows the hidden apps can access them, we need some sort of security settings for that. Also if an app is hidden then i shouldn’t be able to see the app in the settings or else whats the point of hiding it. Also with the sharing feature i could simple enter the app by going into the sharing menu..