OnePlus has lastly proven off its tackle Android 16. OxygenOS 16, first transport on the upcoming OnePlus 15, combines the brand new customization choices of Android, with smoother animations and a tackle AI that appears instantly lifted from Nothing OS.
The centerpiece of OxygenOS 16 is a deeper integration between OnePlus’ “Thoughts Area” app and Google Gemini. Thoughts Area debuted alongside the Plus Key — the substitute for OnePlus’ traditional Alert Slider — on some OnePlus 13 telephones earlier this 12 months. Like Nothing’s Important Area, it captures screenshots and voice memos and routinely kinds them into folders you may check with later. The massive innovation of OxygenOS 16 is which you could now ask Gemini to check with content material in Thoughts Area to personalize responses. The thought being that the added context will make the AI assistant’s responses extra useful.
New options being launched with OxygenOS 16.
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OnePlus can be hopping on the AI writing and picture enhancing bandwagon. AI Author in OxygenOS 16 can convert textual content into thoughts maps and tables with a number of faucets, and likewise generate social media captions based mostly on a photograph. The standard choices for proofreading and summarizing textual content are additionally built-in. For photographs, OnePlus is including what it calls AI Portrait Glow to make faces seen even in poor lighting circumstances and AI Good Shot, which seems to mix a number of photographs to generate a single picture the place everybody’s eyes are open, like Google’s Greatest Take function.
Past these AI-enabled options, OnePlus says it is also bettering customization choices and animations throughout OxygenOS. With OxygenOS 16 you can customise your lock display screen with a spread completely different fonts and layouts, together with the choice to transform a nonetheless picture into an animated GIF or use a video lock display screen. On your private home display screen, OxygenOS 16 can be getting a set of recent widgets and the power to scale app icons — one other thought current in Nothing OS. Opening and transferring between apps also needs to really feel smoother due to new, speedier animations and an replace to how the OS hundreds content material. Primarily, with Parallel Processing 2.0, OxygenOS 16 “permits new animations to start earlier than earlier actions full,” which is meant to make every thing really feel extra fluid.
These are simply the highlights of OxygenOS 16, which additionally contains an growth of the pill multitasking system OnePlus makes use of on its OnePlus Pad tablets, and new connectivity choices that allow you to mirror your cellphone display screen to macOS or Home windows computer systems.
OxygenOS 16 can be launched alongside the OnePlus 15, which does not have a launch date, however is predicted to launch this fall. The brand new OS replace will even be accessible on latest OnePlus units beginning in November 2025, just like the OnePlus 13, OnePlus Pad 3 and OnePlus Open. A full checklist of appropriate units is on the market on OnePlus’ web site.
