{"id":234048,"date":"2025-09-17T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234048\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:50:13","slug":"nothing-shows-off-android-16-update-and-its-new-features-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/234048\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing shows off Android 16 update and its new features [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-10.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its open beta launch \u201ccoming soon,\u201d Nothing is showing off its Android 16 update, Nothing OS 4.0, and its new features and designs.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing OS 4.0 was <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/07\/02\/nothing-android-16-update-release-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced alongside the Phone (3) earlier this year,<\/a> but up until now, we haven\u2019t seen the design. In a new post and video, though, Nothing is detailing what\u2019s new in its Android 16 update.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing OS 4.0 is firstly a visual update, with a \u201csharper, more thoughtful design across every layer.\u201d In particular, Nothing points to new lock screen clocks, an updated Quick Settings panel, and other tweaks throughout Nothing\u2019s apps and more.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a new \u201cExtra Dark\u201d theme which has a true black theme as opposed to Android\u2019s typical dark grey theme.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>Multitasking is getting an upgrade with floating app icons, while Nothing says to expect improvements to both general performance and the camera, the latter coming from the \u201cTrueLens Engine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"1000\" data-id=\"689445\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=689445\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-4.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-4.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"960\" data-id=\"689444\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/?attachment_id=689444\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-7.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-7.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s a new AI dashboard that breaks down how you\u2019re using Nothing\u2019s AI features. Specifically, it breaks down which AI models are being used by Nothing\u2019s AI features, including Whisper, GPT-4o, and Gemini Flash.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-689447\" data-id=\"689447\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1024 \/ 512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-8.jpg\"  \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-689446\" data-id=\"689446\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1024 \/ 512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nothing-os-4-android-16-teaser-9.jpg\"  \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"\/><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing says that Nothing OS 4.0 will be rolling out \u201csoon,\u201d but there\u2019s no specific date. It\u2019s also likely that this will start on Phone (3), but the update will eventually make its way to Phone (2), Phone (2a), Phone (3a), and CMF phones per Nothing\u2019s current support commitments. <\/p>\n<p>More on Nothing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Ben:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of its open beta launch \u201ccoming soon,\u201d Nothing is showing off its Android 16 update, Nothing OS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":234049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-234048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115220201079238932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}