Change Home Screen Wallpaper
If you skipped the wallpaper prompt during initial OnePlus setup, the home screen keeps whatever default image OxygenOS assigned. Many owners only notice later that the pre-installed wallpapers do not match their style and want to use their own photo instead. The setting is not always obvious once the setup wizard is finished.
Show or Hide the Front Camera Notch
On some OnePlus phones the front camera cutout sits in the center or on the left edge of the display, and certain apps do not adjust their layout around it correctly. Videos or games can leave a black bar next to the cutout instead of filling the whole screen. Switching between showing and hiding the notch changes how these apps render that top section of the display.
Screen Timeout / Sleep Mode Setting
If your OnePlus display stays lit far longer than you need, it drains the battery faster than almost any other component. On the other hand, a timeout that is set too short can dim the screen mid-read, which gets annoying fast. This depends on the Sleep setting in the display options, and finding the right balance matters if you also use a pattern, PIN, or fingerprint lock.
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.
Edit Quick Settings in the Status Bar
If your quick settings panel is cluttered with icons you barely use, or a toggle like Flashlight or Screen Recorder is nowhere to be found, the layout just needs a manual edit. OxygenOS keeps every extra shortcut hidden in a separate row until you drag it into the visible panel yourself. Until you sort that list, you keep swiping past icons you never touch while the ones you actually need stay out of reach.
Remove a Home Screen Folder
If a folder keeps sitting on your OnePlus home screen even though you barely use it, there is no direct delete option in OxygenOS. Folders only disappear once every app inside has been moved back out, which trips up a lot of people who expect a simple long-press delete button.
Resize a Widget
Some widgets on your OnePlus home screen refuse to shrink past a certain point, while others leave awkward empty space you cannot fill. The resize behavior depends entirely on how the widget was built, and not every widget supports free scaling. Knowing which widgets are flexible saves you from rearranging your whole home screen for nothing.
Adjust screen brightness manually
If the screen on your OnePlus phone feels too dim indoors or too bright at night, automatic brightness is often making the call instead of you. Once Adaptive Brightness kicks in, the slider can jump around on its own, making it hard to lock in a comfortable level. Setting the brightness by hand gives you a fixed, predictable result every time.
Enable or Disable Screen Rotation
When you tilt your OnePlus sideways, the whole screen content flips with it, which helps when you are browsing a website or watching a video in landscape. The same behavior gets in the way when a photo, a game, or a fixed app layout rotates on its own at the wrong moment. If Auto-rotate keeps flipping your display unexpectedly, or refuses to rotate when you actually want it to, the setting controlling this behavior lives in the display options.
Remove the Google Search Bar from the Home Screen
After setting up a OnePlus phone, the Google search bar sits fixed at the top of the home screen and takes up space you might want for apps or widgets. It behaves like a widget rather than a system element, so it can be taken off without touching any search functions on the phone. If it keeps coming back after a restart, a launcher setting is usually the reason.
Add a New Home Screen Page
When every app and folder sits crammed onto one home screen, finding a single icon turns into a scroll-and-squint exercise. OnePlus phones let you spread apps across separate pages instead of piling everything onto one screen. This helps when you want a dedicated page just for messaging apps, games, or work tools.
Create a Folder on the Home Screen
When your OnePlus home screen fills up with icons, finding the right app takes longer every time. OxygenOS does not sort apps into categories automatically, so scattered icons for messaging, games, or tools quickly turn into visual clutter. Grouping related apps into a named folder keeps the layout manageable without deleting anything.
Add Bookmark Shortcut to Home Screen
Typing the same web address into Chrome every day gets old fast, especially for sites that do not have their own app. A bookmark saved only inside Chrome's bookmark list still needs several taps before the page loads. OxygenOS lets you turn any website into a home screen icon that opens directly, without a detour through the browser menu.
Set When Screensaver Starts
If the screensaver on your OnePlus phone kicks in at random moments, or never shows up when you expect it, the trigger condition is likely set wrong. OxygenOS only activates the screensaver during charging, docking, or a combination of both, unless you turn it off entirely.
Remove a Widget from the Home Screen
A widget on your OnePlus home screen can end up too big, too limited, or simply in the way once you have used it for a while. Since widgets do not sit in the app drawer, there is no simple uninstall option waiting for them there. If tapping or swiping on the widget itself has not worked so far, the removal gesture works differently from deleting an app icon.
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.
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.
Move a Widget on the Home Screen
If a widget overlaps an app icon or leaves an odd gap after you added or removed something nearby, it usually just needs repositioning on the OnePlus home screen. This happens most often right after placing a new widget or deleting an app that used to sit beside it. Nothing is broken here - the widget just sits in the wrong spot.
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.
Show Weather Details for a City in World Clock
World clock entries on your OnePlus show more than just the local time - each city also carries a small temperature reading next to it. That number alone does not tell you much, and it is not obvious how to see the fuller weather picture for a specific city.
Adjust Display Scaling for Icons and Elements
If icons, buttons, and app elements feel cramped or oversized on your OnePlus, display scaling is usually the cause, not the font size. OxygenOS lets you shrink or enlarge on-screen elements independently from text, which changes how much content fits per screen. Get this wrong and menus can overflow or buttons become hard to tap.
Enable or Disable Long Press for Symbols on the Keyboard
If letter keys on your OnePlus keyboard show no secondary symbol, you have to switch to the symbols layout every time you need a special character. Long press for symbols adds a small extra character to each key, letting you insert it by holding the key instead. This setting sits inside the keyboard app itself, not in the general display options, which is why many users miss it.
Change Default Home Launcher
If your OnePlus phone still opens the stock home screen after installing a new launcher from the Play Store, the wrong app is still set as default. This mix-up shows up when widgets, icons or shortcuts do not match the launcher you expected to use. Switching the default Home app fixes which interface controls your start screen.
Automatic Night Mode Schedule
If you keep forgetting to switch Night mode on in the evening or off again in the morning, manual toggling is the actual problem, not the feature. OnePlus lets you tie Night mode to a fixed time window or to sunset and sunrise, but the automation only works once the correct trigger rule is active. Pick the wrong option and the warm tint either stays on all day or never kicks in at night.