Android 16

OxygenOS 16 features, rollout details

OnePlus has introduced OxygenOS 16 based on Android 16. The OxygenOS 16 centered around the philosophy of “Intelligently Yours”. The new version introduces a suite of AI-powered features, performance enhancements, a redesigned user interface, and new security protocols.

OxygenOS 16 features

Voice Note: Imagine you have a brilliant idea while walking, or need to quickly remember a grocery list. Just long-press the Plus Key to instantly record a 60-second voice note directly into your Mind Space. Your thoughts are captured before they fade away. Plus Mind doesn’t just save your audio; it intelligently unpacks it. Instantly, you get an AI-generated title and a full transcript, neatly time-stamped and filed.

Smart Collections: Smart Collections automatically group similar items together. Save a recipe, a restaurant review, and a cooking video, and watch them neatly organized into a single “Food Ideas” collection.

Smart Captions

Upload a photo, and AI Writer will generate engaging captions tailored for different platforms like Instagram, X, and more, saving your time and sparking creativity.

OnePlus AI: A Personalized Core

OnePlus AI, a system designed to understand user habits and content to provide a more personalized experience. Plus Mind and Google Gemini Integration A central feature is Plus Mind, a unified system for capturing and organizing content like articles, photos, and schedules from various apps. With a three-finger swipe up or a press of the dedicated Plus Key, content is saved to a central “Mind Space”. The system can summarize content and uses AI to automatically group related items into collections. Plus Mind is available in English, Hindi, and Indonesian.

OnePlus x Google Gemini partnership

In a significant partnership, OnePlus has integrated Mind Space with Google Gemini. This allows Gemini to access information saved in Mind Space and combine it with its own large language model and real-time internet access, creating what OnePlus calls the “industry’s 1st personalized AI with Gemini”.

AI-Powered Productivity and Creativity OxygenOS 16 embeds AI into several productivity tools:

AI Writer: This tool assists in writing social media posts, emails, and notes by offering suggestions and different tones (e.g., formal, casual). It can also generate captions for images and create mind maps or tables from text

AI Scan: This feature turns the device’s camera into a document scanner that automatically corrects angles, removes glare, and produces clean PDF files.

AI Recorder: The audio recorder now offers real-time transcription with speaker identification and can generate smart summaries of recordings.

AI Portrait Glow & AI Perfect Shot: For photography, AI Portrait Glow feature called AI relight enhances low-light portraits with multi-skin-tone optimization, while AI Perfect Shot can fix issues like blinked eyes in photos.

All-Round Video Editor A powerful, built-in editor that lets you trim, split, merge, speed-adjust, add background music, and even convert between video and Motion Photo formats. It’s all the tools you need to create and share compelling content on the go.

AI PlayLab For enthusiasts, the AI PlayLab app provides early access to experimental AI features. These include “YumSee,” which translates foreign text-only menus and generates images of the dishes, and “Party Up,” which creates short videos from a single still image.

Phone Screen Cast to PC

Effortlessly mirror and control your phone screen on your PC, either via a USB connection or a stable cloud link. Perfect for giving presentations directly from your phone, managing mobile apps more comfortably with a mouse and trackpad.

Windows & Mac Integration – Share files instantly or control your PC using your OnePlus phone.
Apple Compatibility – Receive synchronized notifications, control your OnePlus camera via Apple Watch, and sync health data across devices.
Tablet Continuity – Continue tasks across your phone and tablet without losing progress

Parallel Processing 2.0 OxygenOS 16 introduces Parallel Processing 2.0, a game-changing system technology that executes new animations even before previous actions are completed. This results in uninterrupted smoothness across app transitions, gestures, and scrolling setting a new benchmark for Android responsiveness. Furthermore, system stability, RAM optimization, and thermal management have all been enhanced through deep integration with Oxygen Engine 4.0, ensuring high-performance efficiency even during extended use.

Flux Theme

Set Motion Photos or videos as your lock screen with dynamic deep-depth effects. Fully customize your lock screen text with various fonts, sizes, and colors. The AI can even suggest smart captions based on your wallpaper.

Home Screen & Fluid Cloud:

More icon and widget sizes for a more tailored layout. The app drawer can now be sorted by categories.
Fluid Cloud now supports more apps, including food delivery, travel & navigation, live sports scores, media players, and timers, giving you more glanceable information.

Security

Private Computing Cloud: Your Data, For Your Eyes Only. Android-first Private Computing Cloud with CPU & GPU Protection, a secure sanctuary for your most sensitive data when it requires powerful processing. This architecture ensures that tasks needing significant computational resources never compromise your privacy.

Plus Lock: An Extra Layer of Security for Your Device

Call to Lock If you lose your phone, you can simply call our official customer service hotline to remotely lock your device. Once locked, the device enters a maximum-security state. It is designed to render the phone virtually unusable to anyone but you, by comprehensively restricting hardware key responses, data ports, and critical system functions. This multi-layered defense, from preventing forced shutdowns to blocking unauthorized flashing attempts, ensures your data remains protected until the device is safely recovered. This feature is only available on devices that come with OxygenOS 16 out of the box

SIM Lock The moment your SIM card is removed without authorization, the phone will instantly lock itself, protecting your data. This feature is only available on devices that come with OxygenOS 16 out of the box. Please refer to the actual implementation.

OnePlus 15 will be the first device to come with the latest OxygenOS 16 right out of the box.