Nothing Phone 1 Gets Android 13-Based Nothing OS 1.5 Beta Update

Nothing Phone 1 customers are receiving entry to Nothing OS 1.5 beta, as a part of the corporate’s Open Beta programme. The London-based smartphone and electronics producer commenced closed beta testing for the Android-13-based replace on November 30, and promised to launch an open beta model for a bigger set of customers in two weeks’ time. Users who don’t need to check out the beta model could have to attend for a number of months to get the Android 13-based Nothing OS 1.5 steady replace, which is anticipated to be launched in early 2023, in response to the corporate.

The Nothing Phone 1 maker introduced the launch of its Open Beta programme for the Android 13-based Nothing OS 1.5 replace through Twitter. The remaining launch was beforehand confirmed to reach in “early 2023”.

According to the corporate’s official blog post, the most recent Android 13-based replace supplies customers of the Nothing Phone 1 with a 50 p.c improve in app loading pace. The replace additionally introduces multi-language assist for third-party apps, and provides a brand new climate app that includes the corporate’s customised Nothing UI.

Other additions embody a brand new QR code scanner button within the Quick Settings menu, a clipboard preview characteristic that enables textual content copied by customers to seem within the backside nook of the display which can be edited earlier than pasting, a stay caption characteristic that mechanically generates captions on detected speech audio, and a “self-repair” characteristic that clears unused cached and expired system dumps mechanically.

Meanwhile, different UI adjustments on the most recent replace embody the introduction of extra color schemes to Android 13’s Material You design that the Nothing OS relies on which can enable customers to match third-party app colors to their wallpaper, a redesigned media management and quantity management menu, and a brand new UI for mild notifications and Google Game Dashboard that enables for a smoother expertise when Game Mode is activated on the Nothing Phone 1.

Users may also be capable of shut energetic background apps extra simply with an choice to clear apps now being made accessible on the notification middle, in response to Nothing.

Nothing has additionally launched Android 13’s privateness upgrades to its newest Nothing OS 1.5 beta replace which encompasses an improved picture picker, a notifications permissions characteristic that lets customers management which apps can push notifications, and a media permissions characteristic that enables customers to group forms of media akin to pictures and movies, music and audio, collectively.

Nothing, nonetheless, added that there shall be extra options to come back on the fully-stable model of the Nothing OS 1.5 which is anticipated to reach early subsequent yr.