---
title: 'Phone updates: May'
description: The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates from May are provided below. Indicators
  Icons are now all monochromatic Web Browser Bottom edge gesture to reveal tabs view
  New settings UI with Privacy settings Improved interaction and visuals of top sites
  Improved scrolling smoothness and chrome interaction Enhancements to search suggestions
  from u […]
url: https://canonical.com/blog/phone-updates-may
---

1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog)
2. Article

---

[Amrisha Prashar](https://canonical.com/blog/author/amrisha-prashar "More about Amrisha Prashar")

29 May 2015

# Phone updates: May

---

Share the article

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates from May are provided below.

**Indicators**

- Icons are now all monochromatic

**Web Browser**- Bottom edge gesture to reveal tabs view- New settings UI with Privacy settings- Improved interaction and visuals of top sites- Improved scrolling smoothness and chrome interaction- Enhancements to search suggestions from url bar- Bottom edge gesture to exit fullscreen windows- Enhancements to the insecure websites visual feedback- Properly save and restore navigation state between runs- Honour Window.close() requests- Noticeable performance improvements in the generation of tab previews- Private browsing- Search suggestions in url bar

                        **Address Book**- Import contacts from SIM- New settings panel- Improved first time user experience for contact sync/import

                              **Messaging app**

                              - Group chat support (late landing)

                                **Toolkit v1.3**- Migrated to the 5.4 version of Qt (https://wiki.qt.io/New-Features-in-Qt-5.4)- Introduced 1.3 version of the Toolkit- Brand new ListItem with fancy features and high performance- Refactored UbuntuShape for better performance- New dedicated overlay shape. Made use of the new UbuntuShape architecture to create an extended shape with efficient overlay rendering- Improved alarm services- New text handler visuals and improved behaviour in text areas- Optimized Slider and ProgressBar components.- PageStack header animations for MainView 1.2- Refactored OrientationHelper- Simplify animation code and make it more robust

                                                      **Scopes**- Scope tagging. With this, newly installed scopes will be automatically aggregated if their tags are matched by an aggregator- Today, Nearby and News scopes added support for keywords- New and improved layout for the News scope

                                                            **Qt 5.4**- Introducing Qt WebSockets: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebsockets-index.html (requested by developers, now on vivid images)- Two new QML modules: Declarative State Machine, QML Models- OpenGL ES 3.0/3.1 support- Improved font rendering for many languages- QQuickRenderControl for efficient rendering into framebuffer objects- QStorageInfo- Lots of performance improvements and bugfixes

[Get in touch

Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form)

## Sign up for our newsletter

Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox.

Work email:

\*I agree to receive information about Canonical's
products and services.

In submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to
[Canonical's Privacy Notice](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy/contact)
and [Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy).

Sign up

## Share on

---

## Related posts

[### AI infrastructure for telcos](https://canonical.com/blog/ai-infrastructure-for-telcos)

Why moving from pilots to production changes the platform Artificial intelligence has moved beyond the demonstration phase. Telco operators are already exploring it for fault...

[Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman)

2 October 2026

[### Canonical named a Challenger in the 2026 GartnerⓇ Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-a-challenger-in-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-server-virtualization-platforms)

Canonical has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2026 GartnerⓇ Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms. The inaugural edition of the report provides an...

[Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical)

1 October 2026

[### Canonical announces the alpha release of Charmed OpenShell to help secure autonomous AI agent fleets](https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-openshell-alpha-release)

To streamline enterprise deployment and lifecycle management, Canonical is announcing the alpha release of Charmed OpenShell.

[Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical)

28 September 2026

[### Ubuntu coming soon to Snapdragon X2 Series platforms, unlocking more Linux PCs for the agentic world](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-coming-soon-to-qualcomm-snapdragon-x2-series-platforms)

Canonical and Qualcomm Technologies announce upcoming native Ubuntu support for Qualcomm’s flagship laptop silicon, delivering multi-day battery life, 80 TOPS NPU acceleration,...

[Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical)

23 September 2026