OnePlus introduces personalised AI features and hardware on upcoming 13s model: All you need to know
Positioned as part of the company's broader push towards personalised AI integration, the Plus Key marks a new direction for hardware design. It builds on the legacy of the Alert Slider and allows users to assign custom functions — such as activating the camera, switching audio profiles, or initiating translations.
The key will also serve as a gateway to 'AI Plus Mind', a new AI-driven feature that enables users to save and organise on-screen information. Through either a button press or a three-finger swipe, users can store content like schedules or event details. The system can then contextually analyse the saved material and integrate it with apps like calendars, promising a more structured approach to digital information management.
Alongside the hardware addition, OnePlus revealed a suite of AI-based tools aimed at improving productivity and user interaction. These include: AI VoiceScribe : A tool to record, summarise, and translate calls and meetings within commonly used messaging and video applications.
: A tool to record, summarise, and translate calls and meetings within commonly used messaging and video applications. AI Call Assistant (initially India-only): Offers real-time call translations and call summaries via the OnePlus dialler on the 13s model.
(initially India-only): Offers real-time call translations and call summaries via the OnePlus dialler on the 13s model. AI Translation : A unified app that combines text, voice, camera, and screen translation.
: A unified app that combines text, voice, camera, and screen translation. AI Search : Allows natural language queries across the device's local content, integrating with AI Plus Mind for enhanced content retrieval.
: Allows natural language queries across the device's local content, integrating with AI Plus Mind for enhanced content retrieval. AI Reframe : A photography feature that automatically suggests alternative framings based on scene composition.
: A photography feature that automatically suggests alternative framings based on scene composition. AI Best Face 2.0: Expected to arrive later this summer, this update improves group photos by detecting and correcting closed eyes or less favourable expressions, even in images taken on non-OnePlus devices.
The company also detailed an upcoming integration with Google's Gemini AI across OxygenOS and Google applications, enabling features such as real-time screen and camera sharing with AI-assisted interaction.
In terms of data privacy, OnePlus outlined its Private Computing Cloud (PCC) approach, which supports both on-device processing and cloud-based computation within a secure, encrypted environment. The architecture utilises a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to safeguard sensitive user data throughout its storage, processing, and transmission phases.
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