My Honest Criticism of the New Status Bar Icons

offcolor · 2025-11-21T17:23:54+00:00

[upl-image-preview uuid=e15f944e-e3e7-48cc-a1e0-c158f1ba714b url=https://cdn.nothing.community/2025-11-21/1763746042-652672-nothing-35.png alt={TEXT?}] [upl-image-preview uuid=ff100eb7-54c5-4f6e-91ef-31059030e1b9 url=https://cdn.nothing.community/2025-11-21/1763746050-716558-nothing-40.png alt={TEXT?}] I know everyone is *very* excited about the status bar update, so I assume I'm an outlier here. I'm a professional designer that has been making (among other things) icons and design systems for about 10 years now. This change, by my evaluation, is a downgrade. Please note that the inconsistent height and tapered ends of the data icon may be a bug. It appears that the data icon is being stretched vertically, which would account for both of those things. Despite that, I still feel like we moved in the wrong direction here. Thought I'd share my two cents! Both status bar screenshots were taken by me on my Nothing Phone (3). I updated from the open beta to the stable release this morning.

HrishabhPayal

Coldpaw No one requested them to change the status bar in their own way. People just wanted a change. That’s it. The Android 16 status bar does the job done. It’s also funny that you consider a feedback as crying.

Coldpaw

HrishabhPayal I am not consider feedback as crying, but the demand of switching to stock Android icons.

HrishabhPayal

Coldpaw If it seems like demanding then there are reasons to demand.

Candan

offcolor I don’t have tapered ends on my signal strength icon 🤔

krizxjr

offcolor

Heck, they ruined the bloatware-free os, why not status bar icons too.

I hope the ones who asked for status bar upgrade are happy with the outcome they got, because for me, this is just trash.

Ruining what’s already perfect 😃.

CMF1_hacker

krizxjr it will be the same complainers complaining before and after the change 🙂

Spark

CMF1_hacker But did you like the status bar? If yes, I don’t mind changing it. My only concern is, what’s the rocket science behind the fact that when we apply the Inter font instead of Roboto, the entire system text changes, except for those Network (4G/5G) symbols that still remain in Roboto?

Huna

Why Nothing doing this silky mistake?

CMF1_hacker

Spark I actually quite indifferent but enjoy studying how the community responds. Also, how complaints/suggestions are geolocated. It provides glimpses into what markets prioritise.

For me personally, I couldn’t care less. Except that difference is good for the sake for change. For my online persona, I love the community demanding change and then complaining when it happens. I am attempting to track if it’s two separate groups or the same users.

Sunny

Misinformation. This thread should be taken down.

offcolor

Sunny What is misinformation? My icons still look like this. So do many others’. My guess is that it’s a region/carrier thing. It’s a bug.

JochieSantiago

CMF1_hacker these are the idle percent drop on my 3 devices

Xiaomi 15T Pro

Tecno Slim

NP3

In idle during 8 hours of sleep, both the NP3 and Tecno lost 1% while the Xiaomi remained at 100%. All of them had BT off and in 4G/LTE network.

CMF1_hacker

JochieSantiago I’m OK with an 5% loss overnight. I sleep about 5h/night.

JochieSantiago

CMF1_hacker I usually sleep around 4 to 5 hours or so. But 5% seems a bit much if the phone isn’t used at all over night.

CMF1_hacker

JochieSantiago couldn’t care less to be honest. It insignificant enough for me to invest any effort in. If I lost functionality, I’d be more upset.

themountofmint

JochieSantiago I losing around 1-2 percent during night I guess. When it’s not charging, what’s usually rare. Never paid attention to that🤔 using 3a

JochieSantiago

themountofmint I’m guessing snapdragon chips can’t enter deep sleep fully

themountofmint

JochieSantiago maybe🤷🏼‍♀️ I can’t check as I usually charge all my phones at night

JochieSantiago

themountofmint I do too. But for a test I did last night, I unplugged all 3 phones at the same time and both the NP3 and Tecno Slim lost 1% while the Xiaomi lost nothing.

CMF1_hacker whats the average battery usage of those apps overnight?

CMF1_hacker

I run a lot of apps all the time, like these including the BT to collect my HR every minute and Sp02 at the most frequent setting.

I’d rather do all that than get the 10% overnight max battery life back.

CMF1_hacker

JochieSantiago I would assume it’s the difference between our data. My BT, 5g and WiFI also stays on all night.

It seems that I’m around 1.4%/h currently, which I’m OK with compared to losing any of that data.

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