OnePlus unveils its AI strategy, revamps Alert slider to a customisable Plus Key with AI Plus Mind

After a long wait, OnePlus on Tuesday (May 27, 2025) unveiled its AI strategy which we will going to see in its future products that goes by the name of OnePlus AI. The Chinese smartphone maker has joined the league of players like Samsung (Galaxy AI) and Motorola (Moto ai) with a dedicated name to their own version of artificial intelligence.

The OnePlus AI will be rolled out in the upcoming compact flagship smartphone OnePlus 13s on June 5. It will also have a dedicated hardware button, which is customisable, known as Plus Key to access the OnePlus AI. Similar to what Nothing introduced with Phone 3a series. OnePlus plans rollout this across all OnePlus smartphones launching this year.

However, OnePlus did not have to add an additional button for it. Rather, it’s much known Alert slider has been revamped as Plus Key. “As an evolution of the iconic OnePlus Alert Slider, the Plus Key is a customisable button programmable for various actions like switching sound profiles, launching the camera, initiating translation, or starting recordings.”

The Plus Key also activates AI Plus Mind, a new feature to quickly save, catalogue, and recall key information found on the screen. Users can save schedules, event details, reservations, or listings by pressing the Plus Key or swiping up with three fingers. AI Plus Mind will save the relevant on-screen content to a dedicated Mind Space, an accessible location.

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“AI Plus Mind uses AI to analyse content contextually. It can extract schedule details from an image or text and add them directly to the user’s calendar. AI Search, integrated with AI Plus Mind, supports natural language queries for retrieval of saved content. Later this year, AI Plus Mind will also automatically categorise saved content for better organisation,” said OnePlus.

AI Plus Mind will also debut on the OnePlus 13s and become available on the rest of the OnePlus 13 series via a future software update, with wider rollout plans for other devices to follow.

Soon, Gemini will work across OxygenOS apps, such as OnePlus Notes, Clock and more as well as Google’s apps. With Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing, users will have real time conversations about what is captured by their camera and what is on their phone screen.

On data and privacy, OnePlus said it prioritises on-device processing within a trusted environment. “When more intensive computation is required, the company’s Private Computing Cloud provides a secure, encrypted environment for data processing, designed to keep user data private and inaccessible to unauthorized parties. This is achieved through a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that spans the user’s device, the cloud servers, and the data transfer process itself.”

With the hybrid approach, OnePlus ensures user privacy remains protected, it added.