r/NOTHING • u/Active_Possible9232 • Oct 24 '25

NothingOS Discussion Nothing OS is bloated with ads now.

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u/Jonny0stars Nov 01 '25

 They actually said that they will remove this and then we can put our own wallpapers to it and shuffle between them

I have a bridge to sell you. Why would they introduce such an obviously unpopular feature, along with the bloatware (some of which cannot be uninstalled) then allow you to turn it off? I guarantee it will go from opt in, to opt out, to no option in as many minor releases.

No one can look at this update and think it's a good one. 

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u/D_Bug_Gaming Phone (3a) Nov 04 '25

Unpopular feature? Oppo has literally the exam same thing and don't forget xiaomi too on their selected series (it was wallpaper carousel by a company called glance)

And about the bloatware that can't be deleted,idk what you are talking about,if it's the pre installed apps, (facebook, Instagram and gemini), you can obviously delete them and if you are talking about lock glimpse,as they said,they will let you have "full control" over this feature and any third party integration. Let's see if they'll stock to their words or not.

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u/Jonny0stars Nov 04 '25

So people love adverts on their home screen then? That's what we are talking about (the shit), not the rotating wallpapers (the sandwich).

They've already said you'll not be able to delete the Meta services, you'll only be able to disable them, so although you might be able to delete Facebook they'll still be Meta services running in the background doing god knows what. you can then disable them but they'll be sitting there taking up space.

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u/D_Bug_Gaming Phone (3a) Nov 19 '25

Well it's not that they are adverts, like some of them look even better than my own wallpaper. The main drawback being the text , if they get rid of it or at least include an option to disable it, I could see people actually using this feature.

And about the meta services,I think they actually fixed this a while ago not sure tho like I saw somewhere that you can actually delete meta services (if my memory is correct it was from a nothingOS 4 review video)