OnePlus Introduces AI-Powered 'Plus Mind' Feature to OnePlus 13 Series

Your OnePlus 13 Will Get a Dedicated AI 'Mind Space' in Update Rolling Out Now

Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's European correspondent, covering tech policy and Big Tech in the EU and UK. Unofficially, she serves as CNET's Taylor Swift correspondent. You can also find her writing about tech for good, ethics and human rights, the climate crisis, robots, travel and digital culture. She was once described a "living synth" by London's Evening Standard for having a microchip injected into her hand. It's a non-negotiable right now that every phone-maker out there must have a plan for integrating AI into its devices. OnePlus is a little late to the party, but it's arrived nonetheless. Back in May, the company announced plans for bringing its own vision of personalized AI to OnePlus phones, and from this week, it's rolling out to the OnePlus 13 and 13R. At a launch event in London earlier this year I not only got to see the first AI features to land on OnePlus phones in action, but also learn about what the company's future plans are for bringing more complex and sophisticated AI features to its phones down the road. With all Android phone-makers increasingly making use of best-in-class Qualcomm chips and relying on Google's Gemini AI, having a strong AI strategy is one way they can set themselves apart from rivals. I was impressed with how far OnePlus seems to be thinking ahead and not rushing into going ham on AI. Its initial AI rollout will likely capture people's attention, even if its ideas aren't entirely original. OnePlus' statement AI tool is called Plus Mind, which can save, suggest, store and search based on what's currently on your phone screen, ultimately depositing the details in an app OnePlus is calling "Mind Space." Plus Mind can be activated at any time, either by a dedicated button (if your phone has one) or by a swipe-up gesture. If it spots details of an event or reservation, it will propose creating a calendar entry. Mind Space is a place to "organize your fragmented memories," said Arthur Lam, the company's director of OxygenOS and AI strategy. This is a hub where all of your most important content will live. AI search will allow you to find what you need without the information overload you may be used to, or it will automatically translate content into another language to make it accessible and searchable. Plus Mind will debut with the upcoming launch of the OnePlus 13S, a phone designed specifically for the Asian market, which comes with a dedicated AI button (the "Plus Key," as OnePlus is calling it) on the side of the phone. That means for those of us in the US and Europe, we'll have to wait a little longer to enjoy OnePlus' vision for AI ourselves. It will eventually be rolling out to the OnePlus 13 as an over-the-air update later this year, although the company is yet to confirm exactly when. On the OnePlus 13, which shipped before the addition of the Plus Key, you instead have to use a three-fingered swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to activate the AI features. When I tested this in person, it was hit or miss as to whether I could get it to work. There's definitely a knack to it -- you need to start from a couple of centimeters above the lower rim -- and there's a high chance of accidentally displacing what's on the screen. It's clear that OnePlus designed Plus Mind to be used with a dedicated button, and no doubt all future OnePlus phones will feature a Plus Key of their own. It is a shame in retrospect, though, that the key is missing from its most widely available 2025 flagship phone. After using Plus Mind to save a variety of content, I had mixed opinions on how useful it was. The process of capturing and creating events out of details displayed on screen was seamless, and I found that I was able to use natural language within Mind Space to pull up the details of these events after the fact. But when saving articles I thought were interesting, Mind Space wasn't able to provide a summary of the entirety of what I'd been reading -- only of the specific text that was on screen at the time I activated Plus Mind. I also struggled to organise the content into collections within Mind Space. This is a manual process, rather than a situation in which the AI takes over to categorize everything you've saved. This feels a little like a missed opportunity. Like other Android phone makers, OnePlus has the benefit of tapping into the best of Google's Gemini phone tools, while also choosing what additional features it wants to bring to its phones to make them stand apart from its competitors. That said, its initial foray into AI with Mind Space is bound to draw comparisons to what Nothing is doing with Essential Space -- its own dedicated hub for saving content, snippets, links and reminders. Plus Mind and Mind Space are just the first part of OnePlus' three-stage AI strategy. Next up is integrating a large language model into Plus Mind, allowing your phone to understand your habits to create a "persona" it uses to understand you. "It will help you understand yourself," said Lam, and could even help you discover something "surprising" or "enlightening" about yourself. Stage 3 is when OnePlus plans to go full AI agent, turning into a personal assistant that can know everything about you. But the company's not quite there just yet. In the meantime it has a few other ideas in the pipeline. Coming first to India (again, not the EU or the US), are AI VoiceScribe, which will provide you with a quick summary after your call on WhatsApp, Snapchat or Telegram, and AI Call Assistant, which provides you with in-call translation in both text and voice. On the more playful side, OnePlus is introducing two AI photo tools. The first, AI Best Face 2.0, will allow you to correct the faces of up 20 people in a group photo so that everyone is looking their best (if they have their eyes closed, for example, or what OnePlus describes as a "suboptimal expression"). AI Reframe, meanwhile, will analyze your carelessly shot holiday snaps and suggest creative cropping and framing to make it look like you weren't three cocktails deep when you shot them. These photo features will be come to OnePlus phones this summer, but for the major OnePlus AI tool rollout, you might have to wait a little longer.

OnePlus 13 users in the US are getting the brand's on-screen AI with an extra flair

Our phones are basically external brains at this point. But OnePlus took that idea literally when it introduced Plus Mind, a new AI feature that's like giving your phone a photographic memory. If you've ever wished your phone could remember stuff for you (like that event poster you saw or that outfit you loved while doomscrolling), OnePlus is making it happen. The company's shiny new AI assistant is finally rolling out to the OnePlus 13 and 13R in the US over the coming weeks. Related The OnePlus 13 finally won me over; here's why I'm upgrading From top-tier performance to a refined camera Posts 6 OnePlus first rolled out its Plus Mind AI with the OnePlus 13s in India, then brought it to the Nord 5 over in Europe. Now, it's going worldwide. This AI assistant is built to offer helpful suggestions before you even ask and can stash important information for when you need it later. Basically, Plus Mind jumps in to save, suggest, store, and search based on whatever is on your screen. If your phone has a dedicated button -- like the OnePlus 13s -- just tap it to activate. On the OnePlus 13 and 13R, meanwhile, a simple three-finger swipe up grabs everything from memes and messages to full web pages and screenshots. Here's where things get interesting: once Plus Mind grabs what's on your screen, it actually makes sense of it. Grab a concert poster, and it'll offer to drop the date into your calendar. Browse through a fashion site, and it'll summarize the look and stash the details in Mind Space. A digital junk drawer, but organized Mind Space is the new app baked into the OnePlus 13 in order to quietly build an AI-sorted collection of everything you've saved with a swipe. Want to revisit that recipe screenshot or track down that cool streetwear page? Just swipe down on your home screen and search like you would on Google. Related 5 things I'd change about the OnePlus 13 Let's make a great phone even better Posts 7 Think of Mind Space as your personal vault for everything that matters. It keeps your key content in one place. With built-in AI search, you can quickly find what you're looking for without digging through a mess. And if something's in another language, it'll translate it on the fly so it's easy to access and search through. According to OnePlus, Plus Mind is just the starting point. It's part of a broader AI effort the company laid out earlier this year, one shaped by real talks with users around the globe about what they want (and don't want) from AI. The end goal is to build a phone that actually understands you.

OnePlus 13 will get its AI-powered 'Plus Mind' update 'over the coming weeks'

OnePlus has just detailed its new "Plus Mind" update for the OnePlus 13 series, alongside a bunch of other new AI features in the pipeline. In a press release, OnePlus has announced that its "Plus Mind" feature is coming to the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R "over the coming weeks." "Plus Mind" first launched on the OnePlus 13T/13s earlier this year as an option to use content on screen to gather information, save content for later, or generate AI-powered action items. For example, Plus Mind can automatically recognize details from a poster and create an event. Where the OnePlus 13T and OnePlus 13s use this through the dedicated "Plus Key" (which replaces the Alert Slider), the OnePlus 13 and 13R will use a three-finger swipe upwards on the display. OnePlus says this feature will arrive "over the coming weeks" in the US and Canada, and they're also coming to other regions too. OnePlus' full announcement follows: OnePlus Brings Revolutionary AI Tool, Plus Mind, to OnePlus 13 Series Upcoming software update brings Plus Mind, a new AI tool that helps users remember everything, to widely acclaimed OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R New York, New York - July 15, 2025 - Global technology brand OnePlus will begin the rollout of Plus Mind, its new personal intelligence tool, to customers using the OnePlus 13 Series globally. Plus Mind, an AI tool designed to help users handle the tidal wave of content they must deal with every day, makes storing, organizing and searching fragmented information easier than ever with the power of OnePlus AI. It will be available for free as part of the latest software update for OnePlus 13 Series, which will be made available on every OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R phone in the U.S. and Canada over the coming weeks. "OnePlus AI is all about helping you work smart and play harder, and a big part of our work and play is trying to cope with the information overload we face every single day," said Arthur Lam, Director of OxygenOS and AI Strategy at OnePlus."Plus Mind has been specifically developed to act as a personal intelligence for our users, helping them remember everything in a secure and private way." How Plus Mind Works Plus Mind first appeared on the OnePlus 13s, the new compact flagship device launched in India this past June. While the OnePlus 13s uses a dedicated Plus Key to trigger Plus Mind, users will swipe upwards on their screen with three fingers on the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R. This will allow users to send any type of information, from webpages to images, messages or social network posts and more, to Plus Mind. After swiping, Plus Mind will immediately analyze and suggest appropriate actions to users, including adding calendar events for key dates it spots in the content it captures. It will also make the data it captures available for the user any time they visit their Mind Space, which will be available as a new application on their OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R's app list; it can also be easily found via natural language searches in their AI Search bar or accessed by swiping down on their home screen. Mind Space uses OnePlus AI technology to understand the content it is seeing and automatically generate descriptions, information and tags for every piece of content, as well as potentially translating the text it sees to a user's native language. For example, a user who uses a three finger swipe up on a picture of an event poster will automatically be prompted to add the event date into their calendar, while Plus Mind also captures all the key data and adds it into the user's Mind Space on their OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R. Meanwhile a three finger swipe up on a fashion website will prompt Plus Mind analyze what it sees on the page and summarize the looks on display. Then, a user can easily rediscover this information in their Mind Space later and return to the webpage with a single tap. More to Come from OnePlus AI OnePlus announced its AI strategy earlier this year and has dedicated itself to creating personalized intelligence for its users. This strategy was created after hundreds of conversations with OnePlus users around the world to learn about their hopes, dreams, and concerns for artificial intelligence. These conversations have led OnePlus to focus on ensuring that every OnePlus user has a phone that truly understands them and can help them work smart and play hard. As part of this, OnePlus has already released a range of AI features in different territories around the world and continues to work on releasing more. These include:

OnePlus 13 owners get a major new AI tool for free

Owners of the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R smartphones are receiving a software update which includes a significant new AI feature. OnePlus has started to roll out its Plus Mind AI tool to 13 and 13R handsets around the world, giving users the ability to receive intelligently suggesting actions while also storing the information for you to search through at a later date. Recommended Videos Plus Mind actually debuted on the OnePlus 13s, but it's only available in India, and the tool has since arrived on the OnePlus Nord 5 in Europe. With the rollout to the 13 and 13R, the feature is now available to those in more countries - including the US - although triggering Plus Mind on these handsets is a little different to the first two. The 13s and Nord 5 each have a dedicated 'Plus Key' on the left edge, allowing you to instantly trigger Plus Mind, but this hardware button doesn't feature on the older 13 and 13R. Instead, you'll need to swipe up on the screen with three fingers to trigger the AI tool. What can Plus Mind do? Think of Plus Mind as a Google Lens-style feature which can understand the context of what's on screen, and everything you deem important and want quick access to in the near future is stored in a dedicated memory box app called Mind Space. Quick snaps of a poster, web pages, social media posts, messages conversations, or virtually anything appearing on the screen can be analysed by Plus Mind and stored in Mind Space. A three finger gesture up the screen will add whatever's on screen to your digital memory box - but that's only part of what Plus Mind can do. If, for example, you're reading a message stream with friends which includes details of an upcoming event, trigger Plus Mind and the AI tool will recognize the event information and suggest a calendar entry. A simple tap to confirm the action, and Plus Mind will add an entry to the default calendar app for you. It's also able to translate text in Instagram posts, apply smart tags to articles you want to read later, and recognise products and places directly from the camera viewfinder. As everything which is analysed by Plus Mind is stored in Mind Space, you can return to previous memories by searching for them in the app or via the native AI search bar on the handset. I've experienced Plus Mind and Mind Space for short bursts with the OnePlus 13s and Nord 5, and while the foundations are there for a useful feature, it does feel a little limited at times. It can do the basics well, from calendar entries to object recognition in images, but it's not yet at the deeper level of understanding. However, given time that will change. Just the start OnePlus is adamant that Plus Mind and Mind Space are not the end game for its AI ecosystem, they're merely the first stage of a three stage strategy to offer customers a truly personalized AI. It's calling stage 2 "Your Secondary Mind", where it'll integrate Mind Space with LLMs (Large Language Models) allowing Plus Mind to understand all your content and everything about you, to create a dedicated AI persona. Then with stage 3 we'll get "Your Personal Assistant", where Plus Mind will evolve the persona into an assistant which will pro-actively offer recommendations based on your activity. (e.g. suggesting a taxi so you're not late a flight due to traffic). We currently don't know when these stages will be rolled out, so for now you'll have to play around with Plus Mind. If your OnePlus 13 or 13R is yet to receive the update, fear not as it will take a couple of weeks to roll out to every handset.

OnePlus 13 Series Gets AI-Powered Plus Mind Feature With Latest Update

Captured content is stored in a central hub called Mind Space OnePlus on Monday announced a new update for its flagship smartphones, the OnePlus 13 series. It adds a new feature called Plus Mind which the China-based company introduced with the OnePlus 13s in June. It is aimed at enabling users to quickly store content or information in a centralised hub with a few swipe gestures, and organise it for recalling later on. Further, Plus Mind can generate descriptions and sort out information with tags. In a press note, OnePlus said that the Plus Mind feature can store information such as images, messages, social media posts, and even web pages. Unlike the OnePlus 13s which comes with a dedicated Plus Key for this feature, OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R users can swipe upwards on their screen with three fingers to trigger it. Once done, it will analyse and suggest relevant actions to the user, such as spotting key dates on the screen and marking it in the Calendar app. It leverages OnePlus AI technology to examine the content and carry out tasks such as generating descriptions, translating it in the user's native language, tagging it for easy sorting, and providing more information. The captured data is then made available to them within the centralised hub known as Mind Space. The company gave an example of an event poster. Invoking the Plus Mind feature on the screen automatically adds the event date to the user's Calendar. Meanwhile, the key data is also captured and added in the Mind Space hub. Alternatively, the same gesture on a fashion website will analyse what's on the screen and summarise the "looks on display". As per the company, users can recall this information by visiting the centralised hub at a later date, along with navigating to the web page through a quick shortcut. Meanwhile a three finger swipe up on a fashion website will see Plus Mind analyse what it sees on the page and summarise the looks on display. Then a user can easily rediscover this information in their Mind Space at a later date and return to the webpage with a single tap. The new Mind Space feature is rolling out as on the OnePlus 13 series following the update. It can be found on the app drawer or via natural language search in the AI Search bar. The latter is activated with a simple swipe down gesture on the home screen.

OnePlus 13 Now Getting Plus Mind with New Software Update

The OnePlus 13s has the Plus Key, a dedicated button to help with triggering the Plus Mind feature, but the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R doesn't. OnePlus 13 series all over the world is getting the new OnePlus AI tools with the latest software update. With this new update, users are getting Plus Mind, which was first launched with the OnePlus 13s. The OnePlus 13s has the Plus Key, a dedicated button to help with triggering the Plus Mind feature, but the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R doesn't. However, users can still take advantage of the feature. They can just swipe up from free fingers on the screen and the Plus Mind will activate. With this, the content of the screen will be remembered by OnePlus AI and will be accessible on Mind Space. Read More - Vivo X Fold 5, X200 FE Launched in India: Check Price and Specs It is available for free as part of the latest software push for the OnePlus 13 series. The OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R are now getting this in a phased manner, so keep checking out for the update. Get Now - OnePlus 13 with Best Offer OnePlus explained, "Mind Space uses OnePlus AI technology to understand the content it is seeing and automatically generate descriptions, information and tags for every piece of content as well as potentially translating the text it sees to a users native language." Along with this, OnePlus is also rolling out other new AI features on the phone. These features are as following: Read More - OnePlus Nord 5 5G Review: Nord Goes Premium It is worth noting that even the OnePlus Nord 5 now comes with the Plus Key and support for Plus Mind. This is something we will check out later in-depth and try to understand what the thing is. As of now, keep on the lookout for the new update for the OnePlus 13 series as it will bring plenty of new features for the users.

OnePlus 13 and 13R update brings Plus Mind and AI tools

OnePlus has begun the worldwide rollout of Plus Mind, a new personal intelligence tool, for users of its OnePlus 13 Series devices - OnePlus 13 and the OnePlus 13R. Plus Mind is an AI-powered feature designed to assist users in managing the large volume of digital content encountered daily, aiming to ensure that information is not overlooked. The tool is intended to simplify the storage, organization, and retrieval of fragmented information through the integration of OnePlus AI. Plus Mind was initially introduced on the OnePlus 13s, a compact flagship device released by OnePlus in June. While the OnePlus 13s utilizes a dedicated Plus Key to activate Plus Mind, on the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R, the feature is activated with a simple swipe gesture. Users can send various types of information -- including webpages, images, messages, and social media posts -- to Plus Mind by performing an upward three-finger swipe on their screen. This gesture is described as the inverse of the traditional three-finger downward swipe for screenshots. Upon swiping, Plus Mind is designed to analyze the captured content and suggest relevant actions, such as adding calendar events for dates identified within the content. The captured data is then made accessible to the user in their Mind Space, which is presented as a new application in the app list of the OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R. Information within Mind Space can also be retrieved through natural language queries using the AI Search bar, accessible by swiping down on the home screen. Mind Space incorporates OnePlus AI technology to understand content, automatically generating descriptions, information, and tags for each piece. It also has the capability to translate text into the user's native language. For instance, if a user performs a three-finger swipe up on an event poster image, Plus Mind may automatically prompt them to add the event date to their calendar. Concurrently, the tool captures relevant data and stores it in the user's Mind Space. Similarly, a three-finger swipe on a fashion website could lead Plus Mind to analyze and summarize the displayed looks. Users can then revisit this information in their Mind Space later and return to the original webpage with a single tap. OnePlus announced its AI strategy earlier this year, stating a commitment to developing personalized intelligence for its users. This strategy was reportedly informed by conversations with OnePlus users globally, aiming to understand their perspectives on artificial intelligence. These interactions are said to have provided OnePlus with insights that have guided its focus on creating phones that "truly understand" users and support both productivity and leisure. As part of this broader strategy, OnePlus has already launched various AI features in different regions and is continuing to develop more. These include: Plus Mind is available as part of the latest software update for the OnePlus 13 Series. This update commenced its rollout today, July 14, 2025, and is expected to reach all OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13R phones in the coming weeks.