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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Custom Notification Sounds for Individual Apps
If every app on your OnePlus phone plays the same sound when a notification arrives, it gets hard to tell a chat message from a calendar reminder without looking at the screen. This happens because most apps just use the default system notification sound unless you assign a custom tone in Oxygenos. You can pick a different sound per app, including your own audio files, directly from the notification settings.
Add More Exceptions to Do Not Disturb Mode
Do Not Disturb on your OnePlus phone mutes calls and messages by default, but alarms, media playback, and touch feedback often keep misbehaving anyway. If you want alarms to still go off, media sounds to stay audible, or touch sounds to work while everything else is silenced, the standard call and message exceptions will not help. Those extra behaviors sit in a separate exceptions list that needs to be turned on manually.
Turn Screenshot Sound On or Off
Every screenshot on your OnePlus triggers a camera-shutter style sound by default, even when the phone is set to silent or you are in a quiet room. This acoustic feedback comes from a system sound setting tied to screen captures and can catch you off guard during meetings or at night.
Schedule Do Not Disturb Mode
Turning Do Not Disturb on and off by hand every night or before every meeting gets old fast, and it is easy to forget switching it back off, leaving missed calls and messages piling up. On OnePlus phones, the Do Not Disturb schedule inside Sounds & vibration can handle that timing for you, based on either a fixed time window or calendar events. Multiple schedules can run at once, each with its own days and hours.
Set Vibration Pattern and Intensity for Calls
Every incoming call on your OnePlus phone can feel identical to a random notification buzz, especially when the phone sits in a pocket or bag. OxygenOS lets you pick a distinct vibration pattern and set how strong it feels for calls specifically, but the option is buried several menus deep inside the sound settings. Without adjusting it, you keep guessing whether your phone is ringing or just pinging.
Delete an Alarm
If your OnePlus still lists alarms from a finished shift, an old routine, or a trip that is long over, the Clock app gets cluttered fast. That makes it harder to spot the alarm you actually need for tomorrow and raises the chance of tapping the wrong one by accident. Removing the outdated entries is the only way to get a clean, reliable list again.
Turn Touch Vibration On or Off
If every tap, menu selection or navigation button on your OnePlus triggers a short buzz, that is the touch vibration feedback kicking in. Some people rely on that haptic confirmation, others find it distracting or draining on battery over time. Either way, the behavior is controlled by a single toggle you can flip whenever you want.
Restrict Notifications in Do Not Disturb Mode
When Do Not Disturb is active on your OnePlus phone, some notifications still light up the screen or buzz next to you. That happens because Restrict notifications defaults to letting partial alerts through instead of blocking them fully. You can set exactly how much a notification is allowed to interrupt you while the mode runs.
Add App to Do Not Disturb Exceptions
If notifications from a specific app stay silent even though Do Not Disturb is active on your OnePlus, the app is missing from the exception list. This mostly affects messaging or call apps where you still want alerts to break through. The fix sits inside the notification settings of that single app, not in the general Do Not Disturb menu.
Turn Call Vibration On or Off
If your OnePlus phone buzzes every time someone calls even though you only want the ringtone, or the vibration stays off in a quiet room where you actually need it, the culprit is a separate vibration setting tied to Phone ringtone and vibration. Ringtone volume and vibration are controlled independently on OxygenOS, so muting one does not affect the other.
Enable Repeat Callers in Do Not Disturb Mode
If Do Not Disturb on your OnePlus phone stays silent even when someone calls back within minutes, the repeat callers option is likely switched off. This setting works independently from your allowed contacts or favourites list and only tracks how often the same number calls in a short window. Without it enabled, urgent follow-up calls get muted along with everything else.
Silence Notifications From Individual Apps
Getting a sound alert for every single WhatsApp message, even when you only want a quiet reminder, gets annoying fast on a OnePlus phone. Muting an app or a specific notification category keeps the alert visible in the notification shade and on the lock screen, but removes the sound, vibration and pop-up banner. That is different from switching an app's notifications off completely, which hides them from you entirely.
Turn an Alarm On or Off
If you keep deleting and recreating the same wake-up time on your OnePlus phone, you are doing more work than necessary. Every alarm in the Clock app has its own switch, so you can pause a single alarm for the weekend without losing its time or repeat days. This works independently of Do Not Disturb or Focus mode, which mute every alert at once instead of a single alarm.
Camera Shutter Sound: Enable or Disable
A loud shutter click every time you snap a photo can draw unwanted attention in quiet places like meetings, libraries or classrooms. On OnePlus phones this sound comes from a setting inside the camera app itself, not from the general system volume. Many users search through the wrong menus before realizing the toggle sits right in the camera settings.