Add Widgets to the Home Screen
If your OnePlus home screen only shows app icons and never picks up weather, calendar or messenger widgets, you are probably missing the widget picker, which sits behind a long-press gesture instead of a menu. Placing a widget in the wrong spot often makes it snap right back into the tray. Enough free space on the current page decides whether the drop actually works.
Enable Dark Mode via System Tone
Looking for a Dark Mode switch in your OnePlus settings and coming up empty? OxygenOS hides this option inside the system tone, which controls the overall color scheme of the interface instead of listing dark design as its own toggle. Until you find that setting, backgrounds, menus, and app drawers stay locked in the bright layout even at night.
Change Home Screen Grid Layout
When app icons crowd together or leave awkward gaps on your OnePlus home screen, the fixed grid size is usually the reason. OxygenOS starts with one default layout that does not always match how many apps you keep on screen or how large you want the icons. Switching to a different column and row count fixes both cramped screens and oversized icons in a few taps.
Rename a Home Screen Folder
Folders on your OnePlus home screen often keep the generic name that was assigned automatically when you created them, making it hard to tell them apart at a glance. Renaming them helps you group apps by category or keep the ones you use most together for faster access. The option sits directly on the folder itself, not buried in a settings menu.
Enable or Disable the Home Screen Assistant
Keep swiping right across your OnePlus home screens and you land on the Discover panel, packed with a Google feed, news topics and a search bar that reacts to Hey Google or typed input. If that panel opens by accident, eats battery in the background or just clutters your setup, the home screen assistant is the toggle behind it. Turning it off removes the whole panel, not just the search bar.
Switch Between Gesture and Button Navigation
If the Back, Home and Recents bar keeps eating into your screen, or your OnePlus suddenly swipes instead of using buttons after an update, the navigation mode setting is behind it. OnePlus offers both classic button navigation and gesture navigation, and many people only notice the option once they want a cleaner screen or accidentally trigger the wrong mode. Picking the right one changes how you go back, go home and switch apps on every screen.
Screen Saver Content Settings
If your OnePlus screen saver only shows the default clock and you want your own photos or a color display instead, the option is hidden inside a separate content menu. Depending on whether you pick Clock, Colors or Photos, extra settings like Analog or Digital style, or Night mode, only show up once you have chosen the right content type first.