2.9.1
Nov 6, 2026 · seen Nov 15, 2026
• Home from another app plays the Start animation from the bottom again.<br>• Fit icon to tile fills large tiles again.<br>• Swiping home after Android closed METROV opens Start.<br>• Pressing Home twice no longer replays the animation.<br>• Fixed overlapping big titles and cut-off Chinese, Japanese and Korean text.<br>• New setting to hide the navigation bar.<br>• What's new opens before you
2.8.0
Nov 3, 2026
• Live tile animations you set before 2.7.0 work again.<br>• Android 15+ private space now shows in the app list, with lock and unlock.<br>• The weather tile and app show animated rain, snow, clouds and sun.<br>• Glass and Void themes are now free.<br>• Choose which pictures notification tiles show.<br>• METROV runs at your screen's full refresh rate on phones that capped it at 60Hz.<br>• The
2.5.1
Oct 22, 2026 · seen Oct 25, 2026
• New METROV status bar (beta)<br>• Horizon theme<br>• Tiles in accent, dark or light<br>• Contacts, shortcuts in folders<br>• Hotspot toggle in the Action Center<br>• Full layout option for widget tiles<br>• Fixed a Gallery crash<br>• News and Photos tiles can open the story or photo shown<br>• Bug fixes
2.3.3
Oct 1, 2026 · seen Oct 3, 2026
- Backups no longer freeze the launcher and are much faster<br>- All-day events show on the right day, event times use your timezone<br>- Lock screen hides the navigation bar<br>- Widgets that need setup load without restarting the launcher<br>- New RSS feeds page: switch, edit and add feeds, and they load faster<br>- Grid no longer jumps when opening an app from the bottom<br>- Contact tile fits
2.3.2
Sep 29, 2026
• Fixed blank widgets (a 2.3.1 bug) and widgets failing to add on low-memory phones<br>• Real lock screen no longer stays locked after unlock<br>• Faster, smoother start<br>• Wallpaper can change by itself, hourly to weekly, on home and lock screen<br>• Photos tile shuffles your whole library<br>• Folders form reliably and keep their names<br>• Tile text no longer shrinks on long titles, and icons
2.3.0
Sep 25, 2026
- Real lock screen mode to show on Android lock screen.<br>- Smoother scrolling with live wallpaper and blurred tiles.<br>- App widgets now scroll and update live without lag.<br>- Pin widgets by long-pressing an app in the drawer.<br>- Redesigned tile resize drawer with 12 shapes.<br>- Visual animation picker with new flip and zoom styles.<br>- People tile now flips 2x2 contact photo blocks.<br>-
