--- title: "Phone updates: May\n | Ubuntu" 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://ubuntu.com/blog/phone-updates-may?format=md keywords: index, follow --- 1. [Blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Amrisha Prashar](https://ubuntu.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) ## Newsletter signup Get the latest Ubuntu news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/data-privacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### How we create a Canonical Academy exam](https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-create-a-canonical-academy-exam) Open source provides the world with access to cutting-edge software, and the learning that comes with it. But how do you validate someone’s skills in an open ecosystem?... [Ishani Ghoshal](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/ishanighoshal) 2 September 2026 [### Surviving the uncharted: when dedicated OpenStack expertise is your best ally in disaster recovery](https://ubuntu.com/blog/support-restores-openstack) A customer’s OpenStack control plane went down overnight after their only backup proved stale. Canonical support rebuilt the database cluster live, service by service, without... [Lidia Luna Puerta](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/lidia-luna) 1 September 2026 [### Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance](https://ubuntu.com/blog/open-secure-ai-alliance) Canonical is now part of the Open Secure AI Alliance, announced by NVIDIA with partners across cloud computing, cybersecurity, enterprise software, open source foundations, and... [Canonical](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/canonical) 28 August 2026 [### AI harnesses for telco autonomous networks](https://ubuntu.com/blog/ai-harnesses-for-telco-autonomous-networks) As the telco industry transitions toward Autonomous Networks Level 4, a fundamental architectural challenge has emerged: how do you build a secure, reliable and interoperable... [estelacarmona](https://ubuntu.com/blog/author/estelacarmona) 28 August 2026