Nothing OS 5.0 Will Let You Access Quick Settings Faster with This New Change

The Nothing OS 5.0 launch date is scheduled for August 25, 2026. Ahead of it, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei has shared a new post on X confirming that Nothing OS 5.0 will let users split Notifications and Quick Settings.

In his post, Pei wrote, "In Nothing OS 5.0, you can separate Notifications and Quick Settings, giving you faster access to what you need," adding that more details will follow at launch.

Nothing OS 5.0 separate notifications and quick settings split showcased in X post screenshot

The accompanying video shows a settings screen titled "Notifications and Quick Settings," with two options on display. The first option, "Separate," is described as letting users "swipe down from the top right to open Quick Settings."

Meanwhile, "Combined (Classic)" keeps the current behaviour of swiping down from anywhere to access both notifications and quick toggles together.

Nothing OS 5.0 separate and combined quick settings and notifications options showcased

This is a fairly practical usability change rather than a purely visual one. On most Android skins, including Nothing OS as it stands today, pulling down the notification shade brings up both notifications and quick settings toggles bundled into the same panel.

Now, this often requires an extra swipe or tap to get to whichever one you're actually looking for. Splitting the two apart, similar to how HyperOS, ColorOS, OxygenOS, Apple's iOS and other custom skins handle it, should make jumping straight to Quick Settings noticeably quicker for anyone who prefers that gesture-based split.

This isn't the first design detail that Nothing has drip-fed ahead of the Nothing OS 5.0 launch. Just a day earlier, Pei had also given our first official look at the Nothing OS 5.0 redesigned status bar.

We got to see smoother transition animations, refined icon shapes and a subtler Do Not Disturb indicator, alongside a glimpse of new gradient-based wallpapers.

Together with today's Notifications and Quick Settings split, Nothing is treating this release as more than just a version bump, with plenty of small quality-of-life refinements stacking up ahead of the official reveal.