Change Long-Press Shutter Action
Holding down the shutter button in the OnePlus Camera app instantly starts a video recording instead of taking a photo. If you actually want a quick burst of shots when you press and hold, the camera is simply set to the wrong long-press action.
Audio Balance: Left/Right Adjustment
If one ear picks up sound noticeably louder than the other on your OnePlus phone, calls and media can feel unbalanced or tiring to listen to. This often happens with slight hearing differences between ears or with headphones that sit unevenly. OxygenOS lets you shift the output continuously toward one side instead of living with the imbalance.
Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness
If your OnePlus screen keeps dimming or brightening on its own, adaptive brightness is likely reacting to the light around you instead of staying at the level you set. That can make the display feel too dark indoors or too bright at night, even after you adjust the slider manually. Switching this function off gives you full control again, while switching it on lets the phone handle brightness automatically.
Set Up Focus Mode
If certain apps keep pulling your attention away from work, muting each one manually gets old fast. Focus mode on your OnePlus phone pauses selected apps and hides their notifications for a set time, but it only works if you pick the right apps and turn it on the right way.
Clear Call History
If your OnePlus call log is cluttered with old missed, dialed and received calls, deleting each entry one by one takes forever. The Phone app has a built-in option to wipe the entire history at once instead of managing every single call log entry manually.
Enable or Disable Select to Speak
If you want screen text read aloud on your OnePlus phone, Select to Speak speaks any text you tap or highlight. Once turned on, a floating control button shows up in the navigation area with options for starting, pausing, or continuing playback. Turning the feature off again removes that button and stops the read-aloud function.
Sort Contacts by First or Last Name
If your contact list on your OnePlus phone looks randomly ordered, the sorting setting probably does not match how the names were originally saved. Some contacts get stored with the first name first, others with the last name first, which throws off the alphabetical order you expect. A single setting in the Contacts app controls whether the list sorts by first name or last name.
Remove a Contact from a Group
If you remove a member from a group or label in the OnePlus Contacts app, it can look like the contact vanishes from your phone entirely. Only the group assignment is affected, the contact itself stays untouched. This distinction matters if you sort contacts into groups for calls or messages and want to avoid losing saved numbers by mistake.
Set Up Daily Wallpaper for Home and Lock Screen
If your home screen and lock screen show the same picture every day, the Shot on OnePlus wallpaper collection is probably still set to a fixed image instead of updating on its own. OnePlus ships a built-in daily wallpaper option that swaps the background automatically, but it only works once it is switched on for the screen you want. Without checking the update source, it can also pull new images over mobile data without you noticing.
View Call History for a Contact
Missing the full call log for one contact makes it hard to check how often you called, got called, or missed someone recently. On a OnePlus phone this history sits inside the contact's own call entry, not in a separate app or settings menu. Without opening the right screen you only see the last call, never the complete list of calls, dates and durations.
Start the Screen Saver Manually
On most OnePlus phones the screen saver only starts automatically once the display is charging or sitting in a dock, so previewing a photo slideshow or the clock face means waiting around. There is no swipe gesture or quick-tile shortcut for it either, which leaves the feature hidden inside the display settings. Knowing where to trigger it manually saves you from plugging in the charger just to check your setup.
Enable TalkBack Screen Reader
If you need spoken feedback to use your OnePlus without looking at the display, TalkBack reads out every item you touch on screen. Once it is turned on, normal taps stop working the way you expect: a single tap only selects an item, and you swipe left or right to move between elements. That changed behavior catches many people off guard the first time they turn it on, whether on purpose or by accident.
Enable or Disable Large Mouse Pointer
Connecting a mouse via USB or Bluetooth to your OnePlus phone often leaves the pointer too small to track on a touchscreen-sized display. This setting controls how large the cursor appears when you navigate with an external mouse instead of your finger.
Export Contacts to VCF
OnePlus only lets you export contacts straight to a VCF file in internal storage, not directly to another app or cloud service. If you need those numbers on a new phone or backed up somewhere safe, you first have to pick the right account before the file gets created. Choosing the wrong account at that step often means the wrong contacts get exported, or none at all show up in the saved file.
Enable or Disable Google Location Accuracy
If your OnePlus phone's GPS position drifts, jumps around, or takes ages to lock on, Google's location accuracy setting is usually involved. This feature blends Wi-Fi, cellular network and sensor data with raw GPS to sharpen your position on maps and in apps. Turning it off trades some precision for less data sharing, which is worth knowing before you flip the switch.
Enable or Disable Smart Answer for Bluetooth
If your OnePlus phone keeps ringing on your Bluetooth headset instead of picking up calls on its own, the Smart Answer for Bluetooth feature is probably switched off. Some car kits and speaker systems only work smoothly when a call connects automatically, without you tapping a button. A wired headset or a different earphone mode can also leave this setting in the wrong state.
Enable or Disable Increasing Alarm Volume
If your OnePlus alarm starts quiet and only reaches full volume after several seconds, you can easily miss the first ring - especially with a short snooze window. Some users see the opposite problem: the alarm blasts at maximum volume right from the first second, which feels too abrupt for a wake-up tone. Both behaviors come from the same Increasing volume setting hidden in the Clock app.
Remove an App from a Folder on the Home Screen
If an app landed in the wrong folder by accident, or you are opening one app so often that digging through a folder feels like a detour, you can pull it back out onto the OnePlus home screen. The app stays installed and keeps its data - only its position on the home screen changes. This works the same way whether the folder has two apps or a dozen.
Bluetooth Contact Sharing On or Off
When you pair your OnePlus with a car radio or a laptop, that device often asks to read your saved contacts so it can show caller names or start calls by voice. If that request pops up every time you reconnect, or you want to stop a specific device from reading your address book, the setting sits per paired device rather than as one global switch.
Change Ringtone for Calendar Events and Reminders
Every appointment on your OnePlus triggers the same generic ringtone as your regular notifications, making it hard to tell a calendar reminder apart from a chat message. This happens because the Calendar app pulls its alert sound from a separate notification setting that most people never touch. You can assign a distinct tone, including your own mp3 file, so reminders stand out without checking the screen.
Disable Automatic App Shortcuts on Home Screen
Every time you install an app on your OnePlus phone, a shortcut lands on the home screen whether you want it there or not. If you prefer to arrange icons yourself, this default behavior gets messy fast, especially after installing several apps back to back. The setting behind this sits in the home screen preferences, not inside individual app settings.
Install a Manufacturer Print Service
If your printer does not show up or only prints in a stripped-down mode, the built-in print service on your OnePlus phone likely does not support the full feature set of your model. Many manufacturers publish their own print service in the Play Store with drivers for options like duplex printing, tray selection or higher print quality. Without that specific app, OxygenOS falls back to a generic driver that covers only basic printing.
Add a New Keyboard
A freshly installed keyboard like Microsoft SwiftKey does not show up as an input option right after you download it from the Google Play Store. OxygenOS keeps every third-party keyboard switched off until you enable it manually in the system settings. Until then, your OnePlus keeps typing with whatever keyboard was set as default before.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Scanning for Location Accuracy
Even with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched off, your OnePlus phone keeps searching for nearby networks and devices to sharpen its location fix. Apps and background services can use these scans to track your position more precisely than GPS alone allows. If you want your toggles to actually stop the radios from scanning, a separate location setting needs to be turned off first.