Oxygenos 16 Has New Lock Screen Customization Options And A Novel Gemini Integration

OnePlus has yet shown disconnected its return connected Android 16. OxygenOS 16, first shipping connected nan upcoming OnePlus 15, combines nan caller customization options of Android, pinch smoother animations and a return connected AI that seems straight lifted from Nothing OS.

The centerpiece of OxygenOS 16 is simply a deeper integration betwixt OnePlus' "Mind Space" app and Google Gemini. Mind Space debuted alongside nan Plus Key — nan replacement for OnePlus' classical Alert Slider — connected immoderate OnePlus 13 phones earlier this year. Like Nothing's Essential Space, it captures screenshots and sound memos and automatically sorts them into folders you tin mention to later. The large invention of OxygenOS 16 is that you tin now inquire Gemini to mention to contented successful Mind Space to personalize responses. The thought being that nan added discourse will make nan AI assistant's responses much helpful.

OnePlus is besides hopping connected nan AI penning and photograph editing bandwagon. AI Writer successful OxygenOS 16 tin person matter into mind maps and tables pinch a fewer taps, and besides make societal media captions based connected a photo. The accustomed options for proofreading and summarizing matter are besides built-in. For photos, OnePlus is adding what it calls AI Portrait Glow to make faces visible moreover successful mediocre lighting conditions and AI Perfect Shot, which appears to harvester aggregate photos to make a azygous image wherever everyone's eyes are open, for illustration Google's Best Take feature.

Beyond those AI-enabled features, OnePlus says it's besides improving customization options and animations crossed OxygenOS. With OxygenOS 16 you'll beryllium capable to customize your fastener surface pinch a assortment different fonts and layouts, including nan action to person a still image into an animated GIF aliases usage a video fastener screen. On your location screen, OxygenOS 16 is besides getting a postulation of caller widgets and nan expertise to standard app icons — different thought coming successful Nothing OS. Opening and moving betwixt apps should besides consciousness smoother acknowledgment to new, speedier animations and an update to really nan OS loads content. Essentially, pinch Parallel Processing 2.0, OxygenOS 16 "allows caller animations to statesman earlier erstwhile actions complete," which is expected to make everything consciousness much fluid.

Those are conscionable nan highlights of OxygenOS 16, which besides includes an description of nan tablet multitasking strategy OnePlus uses connected its OnePlus Pad tablets, and caller connectivity options that fto you reflector your telephone surface to macOS aliases Windows computers.

OxygenOS 16 will beryllium released alongside nan OnePlus 15, which doesn't person a merchandise date, but is expected to motorboat this fall. The caller OS update will besides beryllium disposable connected caller OnePlus devices starting successful November 2025, for illustration nan OnePlus 13, OnePlus Pad 3 and OnePlus Open. A afloat database of compatible devices is disposable connected OnePlus' website.