OnePlus rolls out Oxygen OS 15 for OnePlus Nord 4 users in India: here’s what’s changing

OnePlus released OxygenOS 15 At OnePlus Nord 4 smartphones. The update follows the recent release of the stable update for OnePlus 12, 12R and Nord CE 4 Lite 5G. Dubbed CPH2661_15.0.0.300(EX01), the update brings updated visual effects to the phone, new animations, new loading features, new floating window gestures and much more.

How to install Oxygen OS 15 on OnePlus Nord 4

To install the latest operating system update, follow the steps below

Go to Settings
Tap System & Updates
Tap Software Update
Click the “update now” button to download the update.

Oxygen OS 15 comes to OnePlus Nord 4: complete changelog

Entertainment

A state-of-the-art system graphics engine is available to deliver superior rendering and animation performance. Its innovative parallel drawing architecture ensures smooth, uninterrupted visuals, even when switching between multiple applications or pushing the system to its limits. Stability and fluidity are guaranteed in all conditions.
Parallel animation covers more elements like widgets, components, and folders, ensuring seamless transitions and smooth animations even during frequent interruptions.
System-wide swipe consistency is extended to third-party applications, including WebView interfaces, for a uniform scrolling experience across the entire system.

Visual effects

The home screen has been redesigned with newly designed icons, featuring a new look with balanced proportions and improved colors for fuller, cleaner visuals.
Many system function icons have been revised to improve visual consistency throughout the system.
The rounded corner design is improved for more uniformity and a continuous curvature is applied throughout the system.

Themes

The new Flux Themes offer a wide range of high-quality themes, allowing customization with system wallpapers and personal photos for a personalized touch.
Deep customization is added for Always On Display, Lock Screen and Home Screen. Flow and Classic modes are supported for always-on display. Clock color blending, blur wallpapers, AI depth effects, AI autofills and much more are supported for lock screen. Blur wallpapers and many more are supported for home screen.
New flow themes feature smooth, seamless transition animations between the always-on display, lock screen, and home screen for improved visual consistency.

Live Alerts

The new Live Alerts design focuses on efficient visualization of information, centrally positioned for a balanced and streamlined display.
The new Live Alerts interaction allows capsules to expand into detailed maps with a single tap, providing efficient access to multiple live activities by sliding the status bar.
The new Live Alerts animation system brings smooth, elastic design and dynamic blur effects in real time, making map visuals smoother and more refined.

Live photos

Live Photo duration is extended to 3 seconds, allowing more moments to be captured.

Photo editing

The new globally reversible photo editing feature saves previous editing settings for seamless subsequent edits, ensuring an uninterrupted creative flow.
Integration between camera and filters is improved, allowing post-editing, modifying or removing filters applied in Photos.

Floating window and split view

New Floating Window Gestures: You can swipe down on a notification banner to open a floating window, swipe down to maximize it, swipe up to close it, and swipe to the side to hide it.
Resizable Split View windows allow you to drag the divider or tap the window for a larger viewing area.

Quick notifications and settings

The new Split mode allows separate access to the notifications drawer (swipe top left) and quick settings (swipe top right), with a swipe left or right to toggle.
Quick Settings has been redesigned with a more attractive and consistent layout, as well as refined and improved animations.

Share OnePlus

The new file transfer capability with iOS devices, making it easy to connect and share files via OnePlus Share.
Now you can easily share Live Photos with nearby iOS devices.

Battery and charging

The new “Charge Limit” feature stops charging at 80%, helping to extend battery life and minimize degradation.
The new battery protection reminder activates the charge limit function if the device stays on charge for too long, improving battery protection.

Exclusive OxygenOS Always-On screens and lock screen clock styles are added for a unique visual experience.
The new home screen clock widget gives you the option to resize as you wish.
An Easter egg is added in the calculator and will appear when you enter “1+=”, embodying OnePlus’ enduring “Never Settle” mentality.
New wallpapers are added to imbue your device with the signature OnePlus style.
Exclusive app icon designs for OxygenOS are added, providing a new visual experience.
You can now swipe left to quickly enable Split View when an app is displayed in full screen.
You can now search for notes by pinyin and attachments such as audio in your notes.
The style and visuals of Notes widgets have been improved, making them more attractive and practical.
Apps contained in large folders can now be displayed in 3×3 grids.
Optimizes clock widgets on the home screen.
Optimizes Notes widgets on the home screen.
The multitasking experience is enhanced by automatically guiding you to the last used app in the recent tasks view to make switching apps easier.
Drawer mode is optimized to keep the app’s existing layout on the home screen upon first entry.

Confidentiality

The Private Vault is optimized by implementing categorized views for images, videos and documents, simplifying data management.
A new entry on the home screen is added for hidden apps, allowing quick access by tapping the folder and checking your privacy password.

Wi-Fi

Multi-network experience is enhanced to provide more efficient, precise and seamless transitions between networks