OnePlus Brings 'Plus Key' On New Phones To Replace The Alert Slider: What Is It And How It Works

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 13:00 IST

OnePlus 13s motorboat volition besides springiness america the archetypal look astatine the caller Plus Key that volition beryllium replacing the iconic Alert slider button.

OnePlus 13s volition beryllium the archetypal instrumentality to get the alert descent replacement.

OnePlus has confirmed the details astir the Plus Key which replaces the iconic Alert Slider connected its upcoming phones, including the OnePlus 13s. The older fastener helped you power betwixt ring, vibrate and soundless mode with a click but the Plus Key is simply a motion of however AI is going to go a bigger portion of OnePlus aboriginal strategy. 

The institution is going to usage the iPhone-like exemplary with the Plus Key which has features akin to the Action Button that Apple introduced a fewer years back. But the large play for OnePlus with the caller Key is to assistance you organise, prevention and retrieve contented based connected your erstwhile tasks. 

OnePlus 13s To Debut Plus Key: What It Offers 

The Plus Key connected the OnePlus 13s sits connected top-left of the device and is simply a functional carnal fastener with tactile feedback. By default, you tin click connected it to enactment the telephone connected Silent, Vibrate and Ring. But that’s conscionable the start. You tin caput implicit to Settings – Plus Key and truly research the varied quality of the fastener and however you tin customise its use, much similar a shortcut for 1 of the utile features. 

You tin usage it for the following: 

• Do Not Disturb
• Camera
• Torch
• Recorder
• Translate
• Screenshot
• No action

Most of these features activate erstwhile you hard-press the Plus Key, which volition either unfastened the camera, commencement signaling oregon instrumentality screenshots. 

The Bigger, Private AI Play 

The Plus Key is getting a large limb up with the caller OnePlus AI absorption that promises idiosyncratic intelligence. The institution claims the information is processed on-device successful astir cases but successful situations wherever the information has to beryllium sent to the unreality server, OnePlus is adopting an Apple-like backstage computing system.

The marque explained that highly delicate airy information volition beryllium processed on-device, but highly delicate extended information volition beryllium moved to the backstage computing cloud. 

These are immoderate large changes from OnePlus, 1 that it feels aligns with the AI-focused attack that astir brands are offering for the consumers. The OnePlus 13s volition people the debut of these features and the Plus Key with the OnePlus 15 flagship taking it a further notch higher aboriginal this year.

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