Change Alarm Volume
If your OnePlus phone barely wakes you up, the alarm might still be tied to your media volume level. OnePlus lets you adjust the alarm tone on its own scale with seven volume steps, independent of whatever you last set for music or games. That means a quiet media setting from the night before won't leave you oversleeping in the morning.
Move Photos and Videos to an Album
New photos and videos on your OnePlus phone land straight in the camera folder instead of the album you actually want them in. Sorting them out by hand afterward gets tedious once you have dozens of files to organize. The Gallery app offers a direct way to relocate or duplicate them without leaving the app.
Enable or Disable Notifications for a Single App
One chatty app keeps buzzing your OnePlus phone while every other app stays quiet, and muting the whole device feels like overkill. This usually comes down to a per-app notification toggle that also controls sound and vibration for that specific app. Turning it off does not affect any other installed app.
Set Default Keyboard
If typing on your OnePlus still opens the stock keyboard even after installing Gboard, SwiftKey or another app from the Play Store, the system has not switched the default input method yet. New keyboards need to be enabled separately before Android will actually use them for typing. Until that switch happens, your downloaded keyboard just sits unused in the background.
Enable or Disable Desktop Site in Chrome
On a OnePlus phone, Chrome loads every website in its mobile version by default. That view is faster and saves data, but it often hides menus, tables, or tools that only show up on a computer screen. If a page looks stripped down or a feature you expect is missing, the mobile layout is usually the cause.
Enable or Disable Simple Characters in Messages
Sending a text with accented letters, emoji, or other special symbols on your OnePlus can suddenly split it into two or three messages instead of fitting the usual 160 characters. This happens because the Messages app quietly swaps non-standard characters for simple ones to protect the SMS limit, which can either save you a segment or strip characters you actually wanted to send.
Change Media Volume for Apps, Games and Videos
If Netflix, YouTube or a game suddenly blast out sound while your ringtone stays quiet, you are running into OnePlus's separate media volume control. This slider governs all in-app audio, including games, streaming apps and even played WhatsApp voice messages, independent from calls and notifications. Turning up the wrong slider in Quick Settings often leaves the actual media level untouched.
Share a Website via an App
Sending a friend a link from Chrome on your OnePlus phone usually means copying the address bar URL and pasting it manually into a messaging app. That extra step slows things down and risks a broken or incomplete link. Chrome's built-in share function skips the copy-paste step entirely.
Add a New Contact
If phone numbers and addresses end up scattered across text threads and emails instead of one place, you need a proper entry in the Contacts app on your OnePlus phone. A contact that only has a name but no number or address is usually one that got saved in a hurry and never finished.
Share Keyboard Usage Statistics Setting
On OnePlus phones, Gboard can quietly send data about your typing habits to Google to help refine autocorrect and word suggestions. Many users only notice this after wondering why keyboard behavior changes or why data usage seems higher than expected. Whether that tracking should stay active is entirely your choice.
Change the Billing Cycle Date
If your data warning or data limit resets on the wrong day, your OnePlus phone might still be tracking usage against the default calendar month instead of your actual billing date. Many carriers reset your data allowance on a specific day, not the 1st, which throws off the usage counter shown in Data usage. Getting this date wrong means the warning and limit trigger at the wrong time, so the numbers on screen never match your provider's bill.
Change Default Search Engine in Chrome
Every search from the address bar on your OnePlus routes through Google, even if you prefer a different provider for privacy or search results. Chrome hides the switch for this several menus deep, so most people never find where the default search engine is actually set. The choice only affects the browser app, not search bars from other apps.
Make a Phone Call with the Phone App
If your OnePlus phone keeps asking which SIM card to call from every time you dial, or a call quietly goes out through the wrong number, the Phone app's Dual SIM handling is usually behind it. This mostly affects setups with two active SIM cards where no default line has been set for calls. Knowing where that selection lives saves you from mixed-up bills and missed callbacks.
Restore Archived Conversations in Messages
If a chat you need is missing from the main screen of the Messages app, it is likely sitting in the Archived folder instead of being deleted. Archiving hides a conversation from the start page without removing any messages, which often confuses users who think the thread is gone for good. You can still open and read an archived chat directly, but it will not show new message alerts on the home screen until you bring it back.
Switch Between Browser Tabs
Losing track of which tab holds the page you need makes comparing prices or reading several articles on your OnePlus browser annoying. The tab counter next to the address bar is easy to overlook, so you end up closing pages by accident instead of just switching to them.
Add a Keyboard Language
Typing in a second language on your OnePlus often triggers wrong autocorrect suggestions or an unfamiliar keyboard layout. This happens because Gboard only shows suggestions and characters for languages you have explicitly activated. Adding the missing language keyboard fixes both issues at once.
Archive Conversations in Messages
If your OnePlus inbox keeps filling up with chats you want to keep but don't need to see every day, archiving is the cleaner alternative to deleting. Archived conversations disappear from the main list but stay stored with every message and attachment intact. You can bring any of them back the moment you need the history again.
Turn Night Mode On or Off
Bright white light from the display can strain your eyes when you check your phone late at night or in a dark room. On OnePlus phones, Night mode shifts the screen to a warmer, beige-toned palette to cut that glare, but it is not always clear whether it runs on a schedule or only when switched on by hand. If the tint stays off after sunset or never fades back during the day, the schedule setting is usually the cause.
Filter Call History (All or Missed Calls)
Scrolling through a long call log to find one missed number wastes time on OnePlus phones. The Phone app mixes all call types together by default, so a missed call gets buried between outgoing and incoming entries. A quick filter switch narrows the list down to just what you need.
Restore Deleted Photos and Videos
When a photo or video disappears from your OnePlus Gallery, it usually is not gone for good right away. Oxygen OS moves deleted media into a Recently deleted folder first, and only clears it out automatically after a set number of days. If that window has already closed, the file is permanently removed and no longer recoverable through the Gallery app.
TalkBack Feedback Settings for Inputs
If TalkBack stays silent on some taps or buzzes too loudly during a call, the vibration, sound and audio ducking options are likely not tuned to your needs. OnePlus lets you fine-tune each feedback channel separately, including how much other audio gets muted while TalkBack speaks. Getting these settings wrong can make TalkBack hard to notice or disruptive during media playback.
Add and Manage Personal Dictionary Words
When your OnePlus keyboard keeps autocorrecting a name, abbreviation or technical term into something else, the word simply is not part of its known vocabulary yet. This gets annoying fast with names, addresses or industry jargon you type often. Saving the word once, together with an optional shortcut, stops the keyboard from fighting you every time.
Update a saved Wi-Fi password without reconnecting
If your router password changed, your OnePlus keeps trying the old credentials and drops the connection or refuses to join. Forgetting the network and setting it up again works, but it also wipes proxy settings, static IP entries, or metered data flags you configured earlier. Editing the saved entry directly keeps all of that intact.
Allow Calls in Do Not Disturb Mode
If Do Not Disturb on your OnePlus phone silences calls from people who actually need to reach you, the default setup is blocking everyone by mistake. Call and message exceptions in Do Not Disturb are handled separately, so muting WhatsApp or SMS alerts does not automatically decide who can still call you. Adjusting the call exception lets you pick between all contacts, only favorites, or nobody at all.