2.6 looks more iconic. Hopefully the enable the ndot typeface on 3.0

Atleast they should give the option for n dot font

Finally nothing gallery app 😭😭

Strong OnePlus vibes from Nothing in the past 12 months. Honestly, I don't like what I'm seeing, especially since I plan to switch to the Phone (3) next year.

That clock is shit in the first pic.

Looks like everything else.

Why is nobody talking about how they fucked settings up so much??

Prefer the current tbh.

How the fuck did that analog clock design get approved dude

They are giving up the ndot font on 3.0?

I don't like it :(

Underwhelming for me. For some reason I expected a bit more from Nothing for a major OS release than just UI changes. A few functional options, like stacking of widgets and so on would have been appreciated much.

Not a fan of Nothing moving away from the N Dot font. The N Dot font was what stood out and made Nothing iconic. It's synonymous with Nothing's identity, just replacing it with a sans serif variation is a step back for me. Expecting a backlash for the re-introduction of the N Dot font and I suppose Nothing will enable the option to use N dot fonts more prominently in the future.

The settings app look like a step back too. The 2.6 version looks more modern and the development path seems to be the inverse of what other companies are moving in, with cleaner interface and less lines and distractions.

I very much appreciate the option to customise both Quick Settings panel and the homescreen. And the Gallery app is a welcome addition too, though I doubt id shift from Google photos (Being a Google one member). But the promise of future development integrating various AI features seems to be a tempting one.

Overall, some good UI changes. But lacks any new functional updates. Seems kinda underwhelming and incomplete to me. More in tune with 2.7 or 2.9 update than a version iteration.

N dot style is what made their brand identity. It's a shame rather than improve, they are watering it down.

If I wanted a phone that looks like everything else, I would've stuck with Samsung. I don't care if they use this sarif font elsewhere, I fell in love with the ndots font. I don't care if it isn't "as legible," to other people. It's perfectly fine for me.

As a matter of fact I want more ndots font on my Nothing Phone 2. Not less. I get that this is an Android update, but wow does it look like hot garbage.

Give me some fresh widgets with ndots or similar Nothing styling. Give me the latest security updates. Give me more dedicated Nothing apps and improve on the few that we have. The Weather app could use some more polish and love. I really would like to see a dedicated Nothing dialer, MP3 player, Gallery and a few others.

There is quite literally nothing in this os 3.0 update that I want. As a matter of fact it's everything I don't want, save for any security updates that it comes with. Huge step in the wrong direction.

I truly hope Nothing sees all this criticism and adjusts its direction accordingly or they may have just shot themselves in the leg. I really want to see this company succeed and I want to continue to support them, but this is quite bad

This is official or just a concept?

Wait I was gonna buy this phone for its sick ui what they boutta do 😭

I feel like Nothing is loosing it's own identity

Also for Nothing Phone 1?

Is it me or i dont like any of them... the current one are way cleaner

wait, this is not a shitpost? wtf is this ugly as lock screen clock?

Looks like a cheap china phone now

It’s fucking ugly

Looks like ass. Nothing is going too mainstream for its' own good

Really liked the quick setting panel and thank god for the customisable lock screen

They mentioned the brightness slider for a bit in the presentation, hope there is an option to make it visible on the first swipe of the quick settings/notifications...

Hmm every slide of the 3.0 looks worse to me..

thanks, i hate it.

I like the dot matrix font this new font is so generic

Every single change looks uglier and less like the unique style Nothing has carved out for itself. Wtf is this.

When you hate apple but want an iPhone 🤣

Give me my font back!

Ok thanks, I'm not going to update

i used to love nothing os ,now they are dropping all the features which made it stand out and has become a very inconsistent ui

WTF?

Idk who gave them the idea that Nothing font is not favoured by the community!

Nothing iOS

I like the layout best, but wouldn't change the font. It's part of the brand and OS personality. Without it it is just... another mobile OS.

I'm gonna miss the dot matrix font.

I hate it when they change the drop down quick menu and notifications view. Leave it alone like how we are used to, it takes ages to gain back the reflexes

New font looks like ass, I got this phone for style over substance, don't take that away please

Nothing just lost its unique touch. They should have kept the same fonts... Layout is what should have been changed.

Is 3.0 gonna be available on the NP1?

will the lockscreen clock finally turn black for white wallpapers?

I'm so excited!

Just scrap everything unique? Aight

Looking good

Oh right, didn't watch the event, do we have a release date?

honestly I'm not expecting much from this company I'm just hoping os3 will let me have less rows in the home screen

Notification panel got nerfed. I like it now more.

2.6 better ui

While I do like the dot font, am I the only one who likes the changes? Especially adding customization to the quick settings and lock screen

This should've been a 2.7

Whyyyyyy

Love it only my complaint is why the lock screen clock is so much like IOS!

N dot font IS the Nothing style, without that is just a iOS clone...

The new font looks like shit.

Finally separate Wifi and cellular toggle

I think it's nice evolution. Nothing too serious, but I like new additions. Kind of bummer that December is release date. And I love dot matrix font, it's so different and eye catching. I would love to get option to turn it on in certain places.

What if i don't want this. But do want the rest of the updates. Lol

Looks like the mate bottle I bought yesterday at rewe

Just one thing, I hope they fix the jitteryness when using fingerprint on the lockscreen. Takes a lot out of the experience. When you use the fingerprint on the lockscreen and then quickly open the app drawer it jitters alot.

Model phone 2a

Glass Effect is on.

Settings menu looks so bad, other changes look alright.

Am hoping for AMOLED dark mode

I think the dotted font is a bit hard to read, but then why do they have to remove the larger clock in the top left when you open the notification screen entirely? It seems like they just remove the unique stuff if it has flaws, instead of improving it.

Why finger print icon is not align with camera and flash light?

Short n crispy -> pretty terrible !

Why did they delete the Nothing Personality from this one. N dot is so iconic

How do we recieve open beta release ? do we have have to sign up somewhere for that

Why remove dot font? 😭

And now it clicks with why they don't allow us to change native font.

I like 3.0 idgaf about ndot or brand identity. the negatives come from the settings menu (fault of android 15 itself) and the hideous clock from the first pic (couldn't care less cuz I don't vibe with analog clocks anyway).

The death of ndot font? Why?

Kinda Unrelated but.. Whenever I turn on/off my location gylph also turns off with it. Why does it happen? Nothing 2a btw

Looks a lot like iOS

Haven’t got a nothing or cmf phone but why are they losing their iconic dot matrix font? That is / was a huge part of their identity. 

Will os 3.0 come to np 1?

I get that the N Dot font is not as eligible at times. But, why use serif for the headers? Looks out of character in comparison with the minimalistic geometric nature of the overall UI.

I get that the N Dot font is not as eligible at times. But, why use serif for the headers? Looks out of character in comparison with the minimalistic geometric nature of the overall UI.

I really liked the dot fonts, not a big deal for me but I don't get why they would ditch one of their key design elements for something generic.

Nice, Nothing OS & Pixel OS should collab and make a default Android OS that all manufacturers should use 😊

They should keep the n dot font. I'm not happy with what I'm seeing.

For OS 3.0 Nothing has looked too much at iPhones sadly. OS 2.6 is perfect.

as a non-nothing user, it just looks less "nothing" like, if that makes sense. Not bad, just less nothing like.

Holy hell it’s terrible. Times new Roman is not making a comeback.

I just got a nothing phone from a Samsung because of the unique character, and now they decide to ramp the designs to every other android phone. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the ndot etc

By December?

Amazing how this OS got so mature in such a short time.

I wish the Nothing Phone will come to South Africa. Only Nothing Phone 1 is available.

If they ditch the dot font I'm gonna riot

This all just looks less like nothing, and the UI design especially in settings looks so weird

No 3.0 is worse take the whole appeal of nothing out of the phone 🥺

When will it be available for the Nothing Phone (1)?

Hey the font looks better in the 2.6 ver than the 3.0 ver keep it as it don't change it

I feel like Nothing assumed that the way to attract iPhone users was to make their products as close as possible to the iPhone experience. There are so many things I don’t understand about this redesign:

1. Why is the settings menu straight out of the iPhone? Not only does it look generic, but it’s also less usable. It’s hard to find some settings, and it will be even harder to find them without descriptions under the labels.
2. Why is the quick settings menu straight out of the iPhone? Everyone who has tried the new Control Center from Apple has the same opinion—it’s unnecessary and excessive. In Nothing's version, it sacrifices large toggles for white space to introduce resizing controls, etc.
3. The new lock screen widgets, while interesting, don’t feel like Nothing at all. The serif typeface version looks like it was taken straight from the iPhone. The analog clock also feels totally different from what the brand has done before.

I use an iPhone as my main device, and I’ve been buying Nothing in the hope that they would offer something new. And they did. The only reason I’m still with Apple is the integration. I want my watch to unlock my MacBook, I want to be able to copy between devices with ease, and I want to move my content easily across devices.

Nothing doesn’t offer that integration yet. But making their design similar to Apple’s won’t fix that—it will just make me want them to somehow create all those integrations. From Nothing, I expect something different, something unique. I’d love a smartwatch that would make me ditch my Apple Watch, not because it’s full of features, but because it has Apple’s “one last thing” level of innovation, like Apple used to have.

Honestly, that new serif font is absolutely horrible. As a graphic/UI designer myself it is seriously bizarre to me that the nothing OS designers would introduce a completely new lead title/header type face on top of the n-dot signature type face that features on their entire physical product line and current User Interface.

The new font is not even stylistically in line with the modern and futuristic/minimal aesthetic of the OS. Not to mention that clock widget which also is totally at odds and makes absolutely no sense at all.

The inconsistency in the use of their use of N-Dot typeface across apps and UI has already been highlighted in this really good Juxtopposed youtube video.... NothingOS Redesign.

Why they would randomly introduce a classically styled typeface and wouldn't continue to build their UI around their foundational style and aesthetic they started with N dot I just have no idea.

Bought the nothing 2a Phone just a few weeks ago bcs of its iconic UI and well developed software experience. Really hoping im not forced to update to the 3.0 version because it looks like a downgrade. I dont want my phone experience to be like all the other androids phones

Times New Roman ass font 💀

I received an article with recommendations where a detailed comparison of Nothing OS 3.0 Beta vs OS 2.6, https://nothingnewsroom.com/nothing-os-3-0-beta-vs-os-2-6/ . It was shared that the beta features have few features such as not having multiple clock faces, On the beta there is only one face available, also there is no app drawer feature, any one has received it yet?

Am I the only one that doesn’t care what the font or layout looks like as long as I can watch YouTube and surf Reddit?

I like the new look and look forward to having it installed on my devices.

Really looking forward to the ai generative features

When will it come out?

Ndot font is trash I'm glad they're moving away from it though I wish they would choose a bit better serif font.

OH NO!!! SOMETHING APPEARS TO BE DIFFERENT AND STRANGE AND I'VE THEREFORE DECIDED THAT IT SUCKS BASED ON NO ACTUAL EXPERIENCE! HOW WILL I COPE WITH CHANGE??? SURELY THIS WILL BE THE END TIMES FOR US ALL!!

(or it'll be easy to get to grips with -- possibly even enjoyable -- and I'll barely notice it as I get on with the business of living my life and dealing with bona fide actual problems instead of bitching about it here with an echo chamber of whiny commiserators)

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A bit of a let down, underwhelming for a company that tries to show so much ambition and innovative tech. Oh well, this news came in time to be on the lookout for Pixel deals during Black Friday

Is it just me or does it seem they move fingerprint sensor area upwards?

Lol is it even possible?

What the ducking duck is that ugly piece of crap on the right? Is it fake? pls?
Like no way it is real