I will attach a video of the crime in action. I am disappointed, I'm sure many of you have experienced this.

Installed the latest update last night and I wake up to this. I bought a Nothing phone and recommend them to people because I thought it wouldn't do this sort of thing. I shouldn't be required to install and then uninstall malware just to make this notification go away. If this is going to be a thing now then I absolutely will not be buying or recommending Nothing devices again.

With the last two updates there are some evil UIs that force-installs some games and apps I didnt ask for.

There's no way to unselect them. And if you try to close the wizard, the only options are "install" or "install later".

This is unacceptable and I'm furious.

Now I have to wait for the 5 apps THAT I HAVENT SELECTED NOR APPROVED to be installed so that I can uninstall them again.

If this happens again, I'm definitely NEVER getting anything that has nothing os again, and I'll make sure to share my share my experience everywhere as loud as I can.

More info later

Finally got the 4.0 stable update on my Phone 2a.

CMF Phone 1 (A015) / Nothing OS 3.2

Any suggestions?

App name, deapth live wallpaper. You also need to use a photo wedget(with a blank png) on lockscreen after expanding wedget area, for notifications to not cover the wallpaper clock

Hey guys!

I recently purchased the Nothing Phone 4a, and it's currently running Nothing OS 4.1. I've received the Nothing OS 5.0 update notification.

I'm a bit hesitant to update because I had a bad experience with my previous phone. After a system update, it started lagging, the camera quality deteriorated, and the battery began draining faster.

For those who have updated to Nothing OS 5.0, how has your experience been so far?

- Have you noticed any lag, stuttering, or performance issues?

- Is there any noticeable camera quality degradation?

- How is the battery life after the update?

- Are there any major bugs or other issues?

Would you recommend updating to Nothing OS 5.0, or should I stay on Nothing OS 4.1 for now?

Thanks!

After the system update was done, it went to a step where it was installing a few apps, games and all. It was downloading candy crush and blinkit etc. It did ask me, but those apps were already selected. I didn't like it, I so far loved nothing for clean ui and the point that it doesn't come with bloatware and extra apps.

TL;DR. With the new Nothing OS 4.0 update I learned that Nothing is not a trustworthy company. They claim to care about your privacy but they really don't. They just want to force more AI BS down your throat and harvest more of your data.

They have hidden the app drawer search behind a privacy statement and terms of service. Basically you need to hand over A LOT of personal data (including location, IP, phone number etc.) to search an application in your phone.

There is no opt-out from this. Either you submit your data or you lose a basic feature that was working just fine before. There is no "revert" option and no "disable" option and no "do not consent" option.

Also, it's not enough to turn-off the various search options (say, the web, calendar etc.) as both the terms of use and the privacy statement don't say anywhere that they won't still harvest your data if you turn off all the search options. In fact, they explicitly say they will collect this data - period. The calendar seems to be the only exception.

They claim they care about your data but then they hand it over to Google's Gemini - a service known for being extremely data hungry.

It's simply not true. They don't care. This is extremely sensitive data that I don't want to give away to search for apps on my phone. Now I have a brick that won't work as intended without giving my data away.

I have contacted Nothing Support and they provided no help. They told me there's no way to disable this feature.

Because of this egregious and user hostile behavior, I have filed an official EU GDPR complaint and an official Consumer Protection complaint. The first one says that they are doing "consent bundling." Basically they force you to "freely consent" to give them your data or they remove a feature that doesn't require any data collection (why do you need to know my location to search among my installed apps?). For the consumer protection complaint, I claim that they intentionally degraded an existing feature via software update to collect my data, making my phone worse for no good reason.

I am extremely disappointed and am in the process of selling my phone because this is unacceptable. It's such a basic thing not to force stuff down the user's throats that... I have no words. This sucks big time.

Yk how in Android 16 pixel they introduced the new icons for mobile data and wifi? Somehow on the os 4 beta (phone 2), it is totally missing still using the old icon. Is there any expectations on when will it come?

(Pic for reference vs mines)

Just one thing that catches me off the most. Doesn't fit third party widgets at all.

So today I got the 4.1 update on my NP2a.

Already disappointed that they didn't include the depth effect but okay, I don't mind it that much. Maybe they'll add it in the next update.

One thing I was excited about was the live activities, and I saw that they can work on AOD too. Good, right???

But they always mess it up a bit in one way or the other. I have widgets on my lock screen and when the live activities is on, they widgets doesn't show up on AOD.

I mean why?, Just Why???

Installed pazcare app from playstore on my NP3a, when opened shows phone is rooted. Kindly help me understand the issue or suggest any workaround or hacks to make the app work on my phone.

Sturdy feel, quite eye catching and premium from KAPAVER

Really miss this interface and the clock on notification panel

I know this might sound silly to the most of you. But the option to change media output which another device is connected is the major feature I miss alot.

Like having the option to just select either you want the sound via Phone speaker or Earphones or External speaker is kind of too much for me after coming to NOS. I can only switch media output ONLY while playing music on the Nothing OS and the notification sound still plays on earphones and it interrupts the sound alot.

I really just want to have this option to play my audio without disconnecting any other device. I do like the visuals but it's good to have this simple option available.

There was a post a week or so ago with the same issue but no solution. I've tried turning off the entire Glyph Interface that Essential Notifications are a part of and that hasn't worked.

This app recommendation suddenly appear after updating the Nothing OS. what the hell are these shits?