OnePlus announced OxygenOS 16, its version of Android 16, with upgrades to its Mind Space AI tool, including full integration with Google Gemini. Other updates include new lock screen customizations, improved connectivity options, and design changes.
Mind Space is where the biggest changes have been made. When it launched in June, Mind Space only allowed you to save screenshots, which the AI then analyzed to extract information or create calendar entries. You can now also record longer screenshots by scrolling to the AI locker and record 60-second voice memos to add more information for the AI to work with.
More importantly, OnePlus has worked with Google to integrate its Gemini AI Assistant, which can manage tasks based on information from your Mind Space. Save lots of screenshots of hotels, flight options, and attractions for vacations, for example, and you can ask Gemini to create a travel itinerary based specifically on what you’ve saved.
Other changes in OxygenOS 16 include much more flexible lock screen customizations that echo Apple’s additions in 2022’s iOS 16. Connectivity with other products has also been improved: you can now tap to share photos between a OnePlus phone and an iPhone, connect to an Apple Watch for basic notification syncing, and take remote control of Macs and now iPhones. Windows PC, all via the O Plus Connect application.
All that, plus the promise of smoother performance, smoother animations, and a glowing “optical light” effect in some UI elements that bears a passing resemblance to Apple’s Liquid Glass. Most of the changes seen in OxygenOS are shared by Oppo’s ColorOS 16, on which it is based, also revealed in full today alongside the Find X9 flagship phones.
OxygenOS 16 enters open beta tomorrow, October 17, and will first officially launch with the upcoming OnePlus 15 before rolling out to older devices.
