📱 Nothing Phone (3) - Nothing OS B4.0-251117-1909 Changelog

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Nothing OS 4.0

You’re now upgrading to the official release of Nothing OS 4.0, powered by Android 16. Please back up your user data (photos, call logs, contacts, etc.) before proceeding with the upgrade. Take a look at what’s included in this update:

New Features

🤖 Added AI usage dashboard. When using Essential Space, it automatically tracks AI large model usage for enhanced privacy transparency. Path: Settings > Intelligence toolkit > AI usage.

🕶️ Hiding apps directly from the home screen and App drawer is now supported. Find hidden apps via: Home screen > App drawer > Hidden icons.

🔍 Managing the search scope is now supported in App drawer to display results within a specific scope.

📏 Added more size options for Weather, Pedometer, Screen Time widgets.

↔️ 2×2 size is now supported for most QuickSettings tiles.

🟢 Pop-up view now supports two floating icons for easier switching.

⚡ System upgrade supports app optimisation to improve startup speed. Path: Settings > Apps > App optimisation.

Essential Innovations

🛝 Introducing Playground (Alpha) — come to experience unique creations from the Community, including Essential Apps, Glyph Toys, Camera Presets, and EQ Profiles.

🪀 Essential Apps (Alpha) are now open for download. Enjoy the AI-powered, community-crafted apps that blend creativity with efficiency.

Notes:

For more details of Playground & Essential Apps, please visit https://playground.nothing.tech.

Visual Enhancements

🌠 Nothing app icons have been redesigned with an all-new, fresh look.

📶 Updated status bar icons with a more intuitive look.

🎴 Updated the lock screen password page with wallpaper blur effect.

⏱️ Added 2 new lock screen clock faces in Customisation.

🌑 Extra dark mode is now available, bringing a more immersive dark style. Path: Settings > Display > Dark theme > Extra dark mode.

🌌 Improved transition animations in certain scenarios for a smoother, more fluid experience.

Glyph Interface

Phone (3) users, you told us the Glyphs could use more love, so we got to work. We’re excited to bring key refinements to Flip to Glyph to make the feature more customisable and impactful for daily use, along with refreshed versions of popular legacy Glyph features, reimagined for the Glyph Matrix. We hope you enjoy them!

🕒 Always-On Glyph Toys will now be activated with Flip to Glyph instead of on timeout, ensuring you always have a quick and reliable gesture to enable the toy of your selection.

🤫 Added a setting to choose whether Flip to Glyph switches your phone to Silent or Vibrate mode.

⭐ Tooltip now clearly states that calls are not affected by the “Essential Notifications only” option under Flip to Glyph - no more guessing!

⚡While in Flip to Glyph, give your phone a quick shake while plugged in to instantly see the charging status.

Next, let’s go over the two most-requested legacy features:

🔗 The long-awaited Glyph Progress is back, now using Android 16 Live Update notifications for improved compatibility with third-party apps. Enable it via Settings > Glyph Interface > Glyph Progress.

⏳ Glyph Timer returns with a refreshed animation. Add it as a Quick Settings tile or enable it manually via Settings > Glyph Interface > Glyph Timer.

Last but not least, some features we at Nothing really wanted ourselves:

🌚 Introducing a new Moon Phase toy, showing exactly how the moon will look tonight.

🛝 Tired of the built-in toys? A new button on the “Manage Glyph Toys” page takes you directly to community-made creations on Nothing Playground.

📸 The Glyph Mirror toy will now also save a matrix-styled photo. Déjà vu?

👖 The Glyph Interface will now temporarily disable when you put your phone in your pocket. No notifications are that Essential that they need to glow through your pants.

We hope at least some of the features above can make their way to your daily routine, and please keep the constructive feedback coming!

Notes:

The device may temporarily heat up and increase power consumption during the update and will quickly return to normal after the process is complete.

Nicouschulas

Firmware (bot)
Looks nice, a lot of good improvements.

please give np2a and np2 true lens engine 3 or 4

999jtn

Firmware (bot) rip np1 users🔥

ShubhamChawda

Firmware (bot) when will the update release for Nothing Phone 2 ?

OHMIC

Firmware (bot) So instead of settling in video now this is happening in walpapers also ! Now this has increased!

You guys need to take action even after disabling HW overlays this issue persist check it in the dark guys

I’m saying again check it in dark!

CMF1_hacker BRO I disabled HW overlays but now this time It’s showing in the videos also now what can I do and this is a stock wallpaper not a terribly formatted video I don’t understand what can be done with this

The tearing in the pixel

SanjayVemula

When is update rolling out for Cmf Phone 1?

Ritikk

SanjayVemula end of this year

JoostMeij

Awesome, installing now. Nice to hear the glyph matrix is getting some love.

Honey

No security update for NP2a+ this time?

dreddit

Am I in Beta for the rest of my life now? Or is there a way out?

Lout_Of_Order

dreddit As soon as the update is available for your model you will update OTA to the stable version.

MrAnthonyTalks

Sounds like a solid update for the Phone (3). Looking forward to getting it when it arrives on mine! Hopefully not as long as usual for us UK folk.

Keep it up.

RaadSobhan

Still stutters crazy on insta and FB on high refresh rate( both ram booster on and off)

terry_Rebel

Is there a camera update within this update. I still think my 3a Pro camera is better than the ,“3”

Grigius

I thought the 2 wallpapers seen in the NOS 4 promotional material would also be added. Is it possible to get them in the future?

SRM_008

I got the update notification, it says i need to take back up of images , contacts etc. Does it mean this update is going to wipe out all the data. Can anyone please confirm??

Grigius

SRM_008 I just updated and didn’t lose anything. Back up is always a good thing, but it’s not a cancellation announcement.

AniruddhaSaha_eb8EAZpwnX

Animations are improved than 3.5.
Regarding battery , only Noticed that ideal drain time from 100% to 96% is 5-10 mins and then it stables out. is it with everyone or only with me. Previously , i was charging till 80% , but now after major android update, i have charged to 100%.

JP

AniruddhaSaha_eb8EAZpwnX os updates takes time to optimise according to usage…and lot of things run in background for that…so battery drain is significant… wait for 2-3 days and see if the issue persist …

acruzmn

On OS 3.5, the Always-On Glyph Toy (the clock in my case) would always display the time regardless of whatever action I took. This has now been updated on OS 4.0 so that it only does that if the screen is facing down (Flip to Glyph mode). It will turn off if I pick up or otherwise change the phone’s position to something that’s not lying face down, e.g., if it is slanted.

While it is true that this prevents the glyph showing through pockets as advertised in the OS 4.0 release notes, I actually preferred the old behavior. I would often take my phone out for a quick time peek, or keep it slanted (ca. 45 degrees) in the gym against a wall in the floor, using it as my small “temporary stand” clock (that does not work as well if it’s locked to only work face down).

I understand the update, but I’d like to request a switch/toggle option to allow the old behavior described here to also be available as well. I do not agree with completely removing the old behavior and replacing it for this one, especially since it is such a special feature that stands out in the phone. I’d like it to always stand out, as it was doing up to very recently, whenever I want it to do that. A toggle just makes more sense for this.

I hope others agree with this view. Seems like it’d be a fairly small effort fix for the dev team as well.

Thanks.

Bur_ger

Since always-on on the new OS works only when the phone is placed face-down, glyph matrix has become almost useless for me. I used to set the time or battery percentage on the back screen, or gifs through a third-party app, but now all of that only works when the phone is lying on a table.

Knowing how Nothing usually handles minor bugs like this, it’s probably going to stay this way forever - or until a much later update. Is there any way to bring back the old always-on behavior?

caymi

“Always on glyph” is now tied to “flip to glyph” for some reason, i liked being able to always have something on the glyph matrix and i was very excited to be able to use community made glyph toys on it but now i can only display them while the phone is on a table face down. 🙁