Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

August 25, 2026 Stevie Bonifield

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper "while Nothing's predominantly monochrome character stays underneath."

While I like Nothing's simplified, monochrome app icons, it's nice to get an option for adding some limited areas of color to the homescreen. Nothing's launching it as "an additional theme," so you can keep using the old design if you like.

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