London-based tech company Nothing has officially started rolling out its latest operating system, the Nothing OS 1.5 which is powered by Android 13.

The latest update comes with Nothing’s most “significant upgrade” to offer the smoothest and most secure user experience.

The official release comes months after the Nothing OS 1.5 became open to a select few Beta users in December. Before you update your Nothing Phone (1) with Nothing OS 1.5, here’s what’s new:

App Improvements:

• New Nothing weather app
• Refined camera app interface
• Up to 50 per cent increase in app loading speed

Customisation:

• New Glyph sound pack. More Glyph ringtones and notification sounds
• More “Material You”, meaning more colour schemes available for matching third party apps to wallpaper
• Lockscreen shortcut customisations. Create shortcuts for camera, torch, device controls, and wallet

Improved experience:

• Easily switch data usage when using dual SIM with the improved network Quick Settings panel
• New QR code scanner in Quick Settings and in the camera app
• Multi-language support that allows different languages for different apps
• Clipboard preview. Copied text appears on the clipboard in the bottom corner of the screen. So you can directly edit the text before pasting
• Foreground services. Close active background apps directly from the notification centre to save battery

Visual enhancements:

• New look for Media Control. Puts album artwork on full display with a wider set of music controls
• Improved volume control. Easily adjust individual volume sliders without unlocking the screen (e.g. music vs ringtone)
• Less distracting notifications whilst in Game Mode. Now with Google Game Dashboard. Dashboard supports screenshots, screen recording, FPS display, and Do Not Disturb
• Live caption: detects speech on your device and automatically generates captions
• Smoother animations when transitioning the display between on and off

Privacy upgrades:

• Photo picker. Choose which images you want to share with each app
• Media permissions. Group the types of media you want to share e.g., photos and videos, music and audio, files
• Alerts when an app accesses your clipboard. Then cleared history after a period of time to prevent unwanted access
• Added Personal Safety app

System performance:

• Increased background memory. Reducing the wait for frequently used apps to load
• New self-repair feature that keeps Phone (1) running like it’s new. By clearing unused cache and expired system dumps
• Increased system stability
• General bug fixes