{"id":193191,"date":"2025-11-21T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:52:09","slug":"nothings-android-16-update-puts-a-progress-bar-on-the-back-of-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193191\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing\u2019s Android 16 update puts a progress bar on the back of your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nothing\u2019s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/684601\/android-16-launch-live-updates-notifications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Google\u2019s Live Updates<\/a>. With <a href=\"https:\/\/nothing.community\/d\/47265-nothing-os-40-general-release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing OS 4.0<\/a>, users can track a delivery, ride, or timer by glancing using the Glyph Interface \u2014 the dot-matrix on the Phone 3\u2019s rear, or the system of lights on the Phone 3A and older models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google\u2019s Live Updates look a little different depending on which Nothing device you use. A GIF shared by the company shows a light on the Phone 3A gradually lighting up to match the progress of a Live Update, while the Phone 3\u2019s dot-matrix shows an animated progress bar. Live Updates can appear on a device\u2019s lock screen, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In addition to this feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/788242\/nothing-ai-os-essential-apps-playground\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothing is launching its AI-powered Essentials App tool<\/a> that allows users to create their own widgets by providing a written description to a chatbot. Meanwhile, updates to Nothing OS add more minimalist native app icons, new lock screen clocks, and animations that respond with \u201csharper tactility and depth, making every swipe and tap feel smoother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You can now open two floating apps at once and switch between them by swiping up from the bottom of your screen to minimize them, or swiping down to make them full-screen. There\u2019s also an additional new dark mode with deeper blacks than the original.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nothing is rolling out a few features specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/695788\/nothing-phone-3-launch-news-specs-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the Phone 3 as well<\/a>, such as a \u201cpocket mode\u201d that automatically turns off the device\u2019s Glyph Matrix when it detects that it\u2019s in a user\u2019s pocket, along with new \u201ctoys\u201d that display an hourglass and show the position of the Moon on the dot-matrix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Nothing OS 4.0 will begin rolling out to the Phone 3 starting today, before expanding to other devices in the lineup \u201cover the coming weeks.\u201d CMF devices will receive the update before the end of the year, but the Nothing Phone 3A Lite will have to wait till early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing\u2019s Android 16-powered update brings a bunch of new features to its phones, including its own spin on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,279,5,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-193191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115589673517327372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}