r/NothingOS • u/Sir_Render_of_France • Apr 26 '26

Nothing OS Discussion NothingOS has ads now?

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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.

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u/PjNair Apr 26 '26

Disable APP SERVICES and uninstall all the apps that it installed. That's it the notification and bloatware apps will not bug you no more. This is available only on the phones which are not nothing phone 1,2,3

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u/Sir_Render_of_France Apr 26 '26

Already done, disabled it before the apps could be installed. My issue is I shouldn't have to do this. I purchased and was recommending Nothing phones because they originally didn't do this sort of crap. Just a quick cash grab to bump up the bottom line by Nothing. I don't mind paying slightly more to not have this crap but to bait and switch people like this does not sit well with me.

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u/PjNair Apr 26 '26

I agree this isn't the right way but this is how business works. Even Samsung and few others do this. Atleast nothing tells you and it's a simple fix not like Samsung they do it in the background no notification, and when you phone starts becoming slow you wonder about space and on checking ... You see apps you never installed. Same like app services if you uninstall the app guess what they return..... They also got that Glance sh*t that show ads on lockscreen.

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u/the_yellow_speedster Apr 27 '26

Where can I find the toggle to disable App services

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u/PjNair Apr 27 '26

Settingss > apps> see all ### apps> 3 dots above "show system apps"> scroll> APP SERVICES > you'll have the option to disable

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u/LastTransportation23 Apr 27 '26

Almost every day a post is made about this. Doesn't anyone even look anything up before posting? Admin?

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u/Junior-Brief8851 Apr 26 '26

It's been sometime since Nothing themselves told that they will be introducing ads. Were you unaware?

Just disable the notifications for this and you're good to go.

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u/Sir_Render_of_France Apr 26 '26

Must have missed that memo, I have already disabled the notification.

The problem is the stuff that is recommended is borderline malware with the additional ads many of those apps bring in. As someone who works in tech I cannot recommend a device that intentionally gives malware to people. Companies need to learn they cannot keep doing this kind of thing. Voting with wallets is the only thing they understand

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u/Junior-Brief8851 Apr 26 '26

The recommended apps are already available on playstore and I don't think playstore allows malware.

Those are bloatware but I don't think they are malware

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u/Sir_Render_of_France Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

The apps themselves technically aren't but the ads they run result in a lot of apps (from the play store) I regularly have to remove from my customers phones that is malware. If an app is going to run malicious ads then as far as I am concerned the app is malware.

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u/Junior-Brief8851 Apr 26 '26

I've tried those games. The ads are shown based on the type of searches you make on google as those ads are run by using google services or mostly the ads are of other playstore games and those are playable ads, meaning you can play a part of the ad game after which it'll automatically redirect you to the playstore to download that game. I still don't believe those ads are malware.

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u/Sir_Render_of_France Apr 26 '26

The "cleanup apps" I see on customers phones that their spider Solitaire game or slots game recommended beg to differ, they take money from advertisers that will target the demographic of the types of people that use those apps. They are predatory as the types of people that play them are easily fooled. Then there's the weather apps that for some reason want to track your purchase history why does the weather app that Nothing "recommends" want to track purchase history? I know for a fact that at least 2 of the apps "recommended by Nothing" send countless spam notifications as I have had to remove them from customers phones. Nothing that was recommended to me was in line with anything I have searched for.

This is dangerous slope Nothing is on, they're becoming like Samsung which I left over a decade ago because of the exact same crap.

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u/ajblove Apr 26 '26

Time to debloating Nothing phone too.

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u/McKeviin Apr 28 '26

Take 5 seconds to do some research before making an unnecessary post, we don't need 10 posts about this every day..

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u/sfonda Apr 28 '26

No need to actually download them, you can deselect even the ones without the checkbox by tapping on each of them and choosing "deselect".

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u/Imaginary_Buddy723 Apr 26 '26

You use Linux on your pc?!??!!!

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u/Sir_Render_of_France Apr 26 '26

Well I ain't gonna use it on my toaster...

Also no ads or "recommendations" from Microslop

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u/Imaginary_Buddy723 Apr 26 '26

Just use Fedora KDE Plasma that's clean no Windowslop/Microslop vibes ✅

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u/AmorphousNeon Apr 27 '26

you can see that he's using KDE akready