OnePlus has started the stable OxygenOS 16 rollout for its 2025 flagships in India, with a broader release to follow in batches. The OnePlus 13 is receiving build CPH2649_16.0.0.210 (EX01), while the OnePlus 13s is getting CPH2723_16.0.0.211 (EX01). Users in India will see the update first, with more regions to follow as the staged rollout progresses.
What’s new at a glance
OxygenOS 16 focuses on fluid animations, tighter performance scheduling, expanded on-device AI tools, refreshed visuals, and deeper cross-device features. Below is a concise breakdown of the headline changes, drawn from the official changelogs for both models.
Fast & Smooth: animations and touch
- Parallel Processing: System apps now animate from intuitive start and end points. Drag-and-drop animations on the Home screen, widgets, folders, and Smart Sidebar are smoother. The text selection magnifier fades in and out cleanly.
- UI polish: New animations for message and contact buttons, slicker Quick Settings audio controls, and seamless status bar transitions when opening notifications or Quick Settings. Button navigation gains concurrent start/exit animations for apps.
- Gesture and motion feedback: Touch-and-hold interactions on Calculator, Lock screen, and call interfaces produce richer haptic/visual responses. Charging and fingerprint unlock animations use organic light wave patterns. Refined exit animations for top-row Home screen apps and updated scrolling mechanics improve the sense of direct control.
- 13s extra: Interactive swipe-back previews let you see the previous page while swiping and interrupt the gesture at any time.
Trinity Engine: performance and power
- Real-time workload and resource optimization helps keep video, gaming, and long camera sessions smooth.
- Lower background drain under heavy load and faster app launches from the Home screen.
- Smarter gaming stability through task prioritization and scheduling of pop-ups or calls to reduce power draw without losing responsiveness.
- Albums and cached video thumbnails load faster while using less power. Third-party apps that support cached previews benefit as well.
- A new network power-saving strategy helps when offline or roaming. Power Saving mode introduces tiered performance management tuned to battery level.
OnePlus AI: system-wide tools
Mind Space
- Quick-save from screenshot thumbnails to Mind Space, including in landscape. A new Mind Assistant searches saved content and lets you favorite or copy items. Smart collection suggestions help organize material.
- 13s only: A voice memory shortcut lets you press and hold the Plus Key to dictate and save notes to Mind Space.
AI-powered Photos
- Updated gallery with clearer categories and personalized sorting. Swipe up to see photo details and storage location.
- Built-in video editor adds splitting, merging, speed control, transitions, and background music. Core tools such as crop, rotate, parameter adjustments, and filters are refined.
- Motion photo collages keep quality and HDR, with new templates. Motion photos can convert to slow-motion. AI Portrait Glow improves faces shot in dim, backlit, or overhead lighting.
AI-powered Notes
- Block editing lets you swipe to select text, images, tables, or documents for batch formatting and quick repositioning.
- Press and hold images to switch views, now with side-by-side display. Share full notes via a single link, including text, images, audio, and video.
- Faster highlighting via press-and-hold, plus new formatting: font switching, wavy underlines, dividers, and color highlights.
AI Recorder
- Redesigned UI with simpler interactions. AI noise cancellation reduces background sound and lifts voices.
- Automatic context detection for meetings, lectures, and interviews with matching templates.
- One-tap link sharing bundles audio, transcript, and summaries.
AI Translate (OnePlus 13)
- More natural, responsive Fullscreen and Partial translate experiences.
AI Writer
- System-wide writing assistance for notes, social posts, summaries, reflections, speeches, and self-introductions. It can also generate mind maps and tables from text.
AI VoiceScribe
- Smarter context detection for summaries and optional summary templates. Export summaries as a link, image, Word/PDF, or a note.
Design and personalization
- Luminous Rendering Engine brings light field motion effects and immersive weather visuals tied to live data. Subtle lighting and shadowing update the overall look.
- One Serif is the new system-wide serif font optimized for reading.
- Core interfaces—notification drawer, Quick Settings, Setup Wizard, and updater—get clearer layouts.
- Apps such as Clock, Calculator, and Compass adopt lifelike textures and lighting.
Flux Home screen
- New light-field-styled icons, cleaner grids, icon and shortcut resizing, and larger folder layouts (9-grid, 4-grid, or one emphasized app).
- Optional icon text removal, refined edit mode, reordered pages, and a bottom search bar in Drawer mode.
- Drawer mode adds an index bar, auto-categories, and smarter app suggestions. The Home screen, Lock screen & style page is reorganized for easier navigation.
AI-powered Flux themes
- Motion wallpapers (including Sublime Grandeur) and AI-powered depth effects for motion photos and videos as wallpaper.
- Real-time editing framework for instant preview of changes.
- Custom lockscreen text and configurable lower-left/right shortcuts.
- Full-screen Always-On Display shows wallpaper, widgets, notifications, and time when the screen is off.
- Icon styles can auto-adapt to wallpaper colors. Dark mode icon styles improve comfort.
Connectivity, devices, and cars
- Touch to share quickly moves content and files from Photos, Notes, and My Files.
- OnePlus Connect (O+ Connect): Mirror your phone to a PC, unlock across devices, transfer files, and open multiple phone windows. Cross-device search spans PC and phone. A shared clipboard supports copy on one device, paste on another. Device Connect settings are grouped by device type and task.
- Smart Cars: Smoother in-car Bluetooth pairing.
- My Devices: Quick Settings toggles and Home screen widgets monitor and control linked devices.
- Network: Wi-Fi sharing to tablets, improved performance in weak-signal spots, and AI LinkBoost scheduling tweaks to improve reliability.
Camera, gaming, and system tweaks
- Camera (OnePlus 13): Motion photos arrive in Master mode with adjustable style parameters. Portrait mode gets seamless zoom and framing controls. AI Doc Scanner and a Text Scanner mode clean up documents, screens, and projector shots.
- Game Assistant: Privacy-friendly captures that exclude notifications and overlays. HD options for Game Capture and Flashback. Motion screenshots and Flashback recording can work together.
- Notifications & Quick Settings: More tile sizes (including 2×1) and module reordering for audio, brightness, volume, and My Devices. Streamlined banners and better landscape handling. On the Lock screen, notifications sit below the fingerprint icon for more content at a glance.
- Other details: Earbud-only ringtones to avoid disturbing others, a centralized AI settings page, Bosnian language support, a cleaner Smart Sidebar with single or two-column options, faster sharing with a redesigned panel, and a redesigned battery page showing foreground/background activity. iOS-to-OnePlus data migration is faster.
- Security & privacy: Phone Manager (OnePlus 13) issues Live Alerts and notifications when risky apps launch. Long-press any Home screen app icon to lock or hide it (available across builds).
How to get it
The update is rolling out in phases. To check eligibility or join the Release Candidate Program if it is open for your device:
- Ensure your phone is on a detectable prerequisite build.
- Go to Settings > System & Updates > Software update > Beta Program.
- Tap Update now on the card to download.
OnePlus will expand the rollout to more users and regions in batches and will post further updates as distribution progresses.
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