Nothing OS 5.0 General Release is here 🎉

Zac 🛸 · 2026-10-12T10:00:00+00:00

Nothing OS 5.0 General Release is now rolling out to Phone (3), Phone (4a), Phone (4a) Pro, Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro. This is the full Nothing OS 5.0 experience, including the redesigned Launcher, Micrographics clock face, refreshed design system, deeper personalisation, smoother performance, improved Essential AI tools and the best of Android 17. Thank you to everyone who joined the Open Beta and shared feedback with us! Your input helped us refine the experience ahead of general release. ⚙️ To update, go to Settings > System > System update. Rollout is staggered, so availability may vary by region and device. For the full rollout schedule and updates on remaining devices, follow our Nothing OS Release roadmap post. For a full breakdown of what’s new in Nothing OS 5.0, read our feature deep dive here: Every feature on Nothing OS 5.0 To learn more about the evolution of Nothing OS and the thinking behind 5.0, read here: The evolution of Nothing OS And to understand how we approach building software at Nothing, read here: How we build our Software 👇 Share your favourite feature of Nothing OS 5.0 below!

Bandano

Loving the update so far, but seems like transparent app icons don’t work on 3rd party apps? Now my home screen kinda looks like a mess 🥲

ChrisJ_Joseph_P1NpRo6vMr

Bandano Lucent theme is currently only for widgets and search , they had mentioned it in a reel😅

Nev3D

Help please!!

Farfetch'd

Does it wipe the storage partition or I can roll out safely without backup?

Coldpaw

Nev3D I guess you are running the OS 5.0 beta version.

In the past, Nothing always rolled out those major updates in waves, if it is not available for you right now, you might just have to wait a couple of days before getting the update option on your device.

RiyanR

But when will the Lucent app icons released

JaKC

Huh.. I’m getting a rollback page to 4.1 instead on my updates menu

ChirstianoAponBaroi

Zac 🛸 Please try to also introduce the translucent theme to the app drawer, QS panel, and the notification panel of the lock screen. At least place it to the notification panel of the lock screen so the designs align with each other. And where is the animation of the microgesture we saw in the trailer video?

JoostMeij

Love the update! Transparancy looks awesome! But you have to make the ‘Nothing X’ app icon transparent too please.

Storyteller1

Zac 🛸 is there any difference between camera quality between 4.1 vs 5.0?

JoostMeij

Louis ☕️ it very, very, very good! Love it 🙂

EdgarTomeyan

The transparency is implemented in a rather strange way. The widgets are transparent, but the icons aren’t. As a result, the design lacks consistency.

NotNicoNP3 🇨🇵

Zac 🛸 nothing yet in france as usual 😭 always the last as usual 😅

ahahahahahah

Hello.

Before installing the Nothing OS 5 release, I opted out of the beta via the Nothing Beta Hub (I thought that was the right thing to do, but apparently not). Now, an update to version 4.1 is pending. Is there any way to get rid of it?

I can’t change anything in the Beta Hub anymor

MarcusTimmerman

EdgarTomeyan yeah I really do hope this is being fixed in the near future. I was skeptical with the transparency design and yet kinda like it already.

DiegoP_

The micrographic clock is cool, but only in English even if system language is set to Spanish.

Pritosh

DiegoP_

THE MICRO GRAPHICS CLOCK LOOKS LIKE SIMPLE……. NO ANIMATIONS

grepGander

Pritosh It’s a clock, what animations do you want from a literal clock, lol? You want it to bounce around like a pinball, or burn in flames when it turns to a new hour, or what?

MarkG13

Got the update today, installed with no issues. Haven’t had a chance to play around with things yet though, but are there any “highlights” as it were I ought to try first?

Eren 👁️

After installing the update, I started experiencing network issues. The connection drops and comes back after about 5–7 minutes. Is there a solution to this?

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