Enable or Disable the App Drawer
If every installed app sits directly on your OnePlus home screen, finding anything quickly gets messy fast. Swiping up on a free area does nothing when the app drawer is turned off, leaving all icons scattered across multiple screens instead of tucked away in one list. This setting controls whether OnePlus keeps app icons on the home screens or moves them into a separate drawer you reach with a swipe.
SMS Delivery Reports: Enable or Disable
When you send a text message, you often have no way of knowing whether it actually landed on the recipient's phone. On OnePlus phones, a hidden setting can request a delivery report from your carrier for every SMS you send. If that option is turned off, or you are not sure which SIM it applies to on a dual SIM device, you will keep sending messages blind.
Set Date and Time Automatically
If your OnePlus phone shows the wrong time after a flight, a SIM swap or a factory reset, the clock has usually stopped syncing with the carrier network. Normally the device pulls date and time from the provider on its own, so no manual input is required. This only breaks when the network sync option gets switched off or someone picked a fixed time zone by hand.
Rename a Fingerprint
Every fingerprint you register on your OnePlus phone gets a generic label like Finger 1 or Finger 2, so telling your own thumb apart from a partner's index finger later is pure guesswork. Once several prints are stored for unlocking or app logins, keeping track of who owns which slot gets confusing fast.
Power Button Ends Call Setting
Struggling to tap the on-screen End call button during an active call on your OnePlus? A hidden accessibility option lets you hang up with the power button instead, but it only works once the right setting is turned on. Leave it off and pressing the power button just locks the screen while the call keeps running.
Delete Photos and Videos
Storage filling up on your OnePlus usually comes down to old photos and videos nobody looks at anymore. Deleting them from the Gallery app does not remove them right away though, since OnePlus keeps a safety copy for a while before space is actually freed up.
Enable or Disable USB OTG
When a USB flash drive, mouse, or keyboard connected to your OnePlus phone via USB-C is not detected, USB OTG support is usually switched off in the system settings. Without this option enabled, the phone will not exchange data with external USB accessories even if the hardware itself supports OTG. Leaving OTG active also has a small effect on battery drain when accessories stay plugged in for long periods.
Manage Game Space Settings
Install a game from the Play Store on a OnePlus phone and the icon never lands on your home screen - it only shows up inside the Game Space library. That trips up a lot of players who assume the install failed. Game Space also decides whether calls, notifications and screen taps get blocked while you play, so the wrong toggle can cost you a message or an incoming call mid-match.
Delete Learned Words and Keyboard Data on OnePlus
If Gboard on your OnePlus keeps suggesting outdated typos, old contact names, or words you only typed once, the learned word dictionary has grown too large. This personal dictionary builds up over time and can start pushing irrelevant suggestions ahead of the words you actually want to type. Clearing it resets predictions without touching your installed keyboard or language settings.
Enable or Disable Location (GPS)
If regional weather widgets show the wrong city or navigation apps cannot find your position, Location access on your OnePlus phone might be turned off. Location runs by default to support GPS-based features, but constant background tracking also drains the battery faster than expected. You can check the current status and switch it directly from the quick settings panel or the main settings menu.
Enable or Disable Call Waiting
If a second call comes in while you are already on a call with your OnePlus phone, call waiting decides whether you get notified at all. Without it enabled, incoming calls during an active conversation go straight to a busy signal or voicemail. Some users also find the alert tone during calls distracting and want to turn it off entirely.
Snooze a Notification Temporarily
A WhatsApp message or other alert keeps sitting in the notification bar until you open or dismiss it, even when you just need a break from it right now. OnePlus phones have a built-in Snooze option for exactly this case, but it only shows up once you swipe the right way and it stays hidden if notification access for that app is limited. Without it, you are stuck choosing between reading the message immediately or clearing it away for good.
Disable Screen Animations
If your OnePlus feels sluggish when switching apps or opening menus, fade-in effects and shadows are often the cause. These transition animations use extra graphics processing and RAM every time a window or panel appears. Turning them off frees up resources without changing anything else about how your phone behaves.
Turn Off Wi-Fi Hotspot Automatically
If your OnePlus hotspot stays on for hours after everyone has disconnected, it keeps draining battery for no reason. This happens when the automatic shutoff for the Wi-Fi hotspot has been switched off or was never turned on. The setting only kicks in once no device has been connected for a few minutes.
Change Notification Sound
If the same notification tone keeps going off for every text, WhatsApp message or app alert on your OnePlus phone, it is easy to start tuning it out. OxygenOS comes with a handful of preset tones, and you can add your own audio files once those feel repetitive. The setting that controls this sits a few taps deep in the sound options, which is why many people never change it.
Allow or Deny System Settings Permission
Some apps on your OnePlus phone ask to change system settings on their own, like the wallpaper or ringtone. This permission only covers those convenience settings and has no effect on security features such as the screen lock.
Switch Keyboard Language While Typing
Typing a message that mixes two languages and the keyboard keeps autocorrecting the wrong one gets annoying fast on a OnePlus phone. Most keyboards let you swap languages mid-sentence, but the trigger for that switch is not always obvious. Some people tap a small globe icon near the space bar, others just hold the space bar down and get nothing.
Change App Icon Shape and Style
If every app icon on your OnePlus home screen still looks like a plain square or circle, the icon shape setting is likely still on the default option. Switching between the pre-installed icon packs or a downloaded one changes the outline of every app symbol at once, but the option is easy to miss inside the home screen settings. Some downloaded packs also only apply partially if a step gets skipped.
Switch Between User Accounts
If several people share the same OnePlus phone, jumping into full system settings just to swap accounts feels slow. Each user profile keeps its own apps, wallpaper and data separate, so picking the wrong one mid-task can mean losing your open apps or notifications. The switch actually lives in the quick settings, not buried in a settings menu.
Change Calendar View
By default, the Calendar app on OnePlus phones opens with a combined overview of every added account, which makes it hard to see a full month at a glance. If you only need a quick daily rundown or a compact weekly plan instead, the current view setting is working against you. This applies to all accounts synced into the app, not just one calendar.
Change Default Messaging App
If your OnePlus keeps opening the stock Messages app instead of the messenger you actually installed, the phone is still pointing to the old default handler. Notifications, quick replies and even the share sheet stay tied to whichever app holds that role, no matter which one you prefer to type in. Switching the default only takes a moment, but the option sits a few menus deep in the system settings.
Swap Navigation Button Order
On a OnePlus phone using the classic navigation bar, the Back button always sits on the left and Recent Apps on the right. If your muscle memory expects the mirrored layout, or you switched from a phone with the opposite order, you keep tapping the wrong key. A single 'Swap buttons' toggle controls this order, but it hides inside the buttons and gestures settings.
Enable or Disable Pop-up on Keypress
Every tap on the on-screen keyboard shows a small popup with the letter you just pressed, and on some OnePlus phones this becomes distracting while typing fast in WhatsApp or email. The feature comes from Gboard's key preview setting, not from OxygenOS itself. You can turn it on or off anytime without touching autocorrect or other typing settings.
Change Default Homepage in Chrome
If Chrome always opens to the same news feed with shortcuts and suggested articles when you launch it, the browser is using a preset homepage instead of a site you picked yourself. On OnePlus phones this default start page ships active out of the box and keeps loading until you override it. You can swap it for any web address you actually use every day.