ColorOS 16 August 2026 update rolling out in China; Check out the new features and eligible devices

The ColorOS 16 August 2026 update has officially started rolling out in the Chinese market. The update comes with a two-finger outward gesture to clear all app badges on the desktop, more personalised cards, KuGou concept version support for the Lock Screen and more.

ColorOS 16 August 2026 Update: New features and Eligible devices

New Features

Desktop and Lock Screen

• Added two-finger outward gesture to clear all app badges on the desktop with one click
• Lock Screen Island supports the KuGou concept version; Lock Screen full-screen music lyrics display for a more immersive listening experience
• More personalised cards: Calendar now includes 4×2 and 2×2 size currency exchange cards and 2×1 size holiday cards, anniversary cards and birthday cards

Wallet

• Added a new transportation card

Xiaobu suggestion and fluid cloud

• Smart arrival reminder now covers more cities: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Xi’an, Changchun, Foshan, Qingdao and Wuxi

Safety

• Data privacy and leak prevention: New features include identification and blocking of app privacy data theft, providing 24/7 data security protection

More useful features

Photo Album

• Optimized and fixed the issue where some camera icons, text, and menus were still displayed in portrait orientation in landscape mode.

Oppo AI

• Supports displaying Alipay group-buying coupons awaiting redemption on Xiaobu’s recommendations and Fluid Cloud.
• Xiaobu Memory’s automatic bookmarking function supports syncing bookmarks from apps such as OPPO Browser, UC Browser, Quark, and Toutiao Lite.
• Xiaobu Memory’s expense tracking insight feature allows you to view detailed expense statements by clicking the automatically generated spending preference tab in the upper left corner of “My Bills”.
• The Xiaobu Memory Travel Collection Map feature allows users to swipe to view a single day’s itinerary, displaying the route map for that day and the driving time between various locations.

Device interconnection

• Cross-screen unlock function: After connecting the tablet and phone and enabling screen mirroring, you can unlock your phone directly from the mirrored screen on the tablet.
• Cross-device clipboard synchronization function, allowing you to scan a QR code on your phone or tablet to retrieve clipboard content. After extracting text and tables, you can seamlessly paste them to connected computers, tablets, or mobile phones with one click.

Weather

• Supports adding a “Typhoon Path” card to the desktop, which can display typhoon path, wind force, intensity and other information in real time.

Notes

• Supports drawing directly on images viewed in notes

Security and privacy

• The privacy surrogate protection status is displayed in “All App Behavior Records”. When an app uses a privacy surrogate, a privacy surrogate badge will be added to the upper right corner.
• The phone manager and tablet manager support customizable homepages for frequently used tools, allowing you to adjust the display of features as needed.
• To improve the user experience of hidden apps, users can swipe up from the bottom of the screen to the top-right corner of the floating window area to switch to floating window display.
• The scope of risk app permission control for mobile phone and tablet managers can be expanded to include more app permissions, such as accessibility services and access to all files.
• The “Virus Risk” function in phone and tablet security apps automatically sets all important permissions for those apps to “disallow” after detecting risky applications, and enables a privacy surrogate to replace sensitive data.
• The storage cleanup page in phone and tablet managers features a more convenient partitioned display for easier use

Eligible devices

The update will be rolled out in batches.

Oppo

• OPPO Find N6 Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find N6
• OPPO Find N5 Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find N5
• OPPO Find X9 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find X9 Ultra
• OPPO Find X9 Pro Satellite Communication Sales
• OPPO Find X9 Pro
• OPPO Find X9s Pro
• OPPO Find X9
• OPPO Find X8 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find X8 Ultra
• OPPO Pad 6
• OPPO Find X8 Pro Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find X8 Pro
• OPPO Find X8s+
• OPPO Find X8s
• OPPO Find X8
• OPPO Find X7 Ultra Satellite Communication Edition
• OPPO Find X7 Ultra
• OPPO Find X7
• OPPO Reno16 Pro
• OPPO Reno16
• OPPO Reno15 Pro
• OPPO Reno15
• OPPO Reno15c
• OPPO K15 Pro+
• OPPO Pad 5 Pro
• OPPO Pad Mini
• OPPO Pad 5

OnePlus

• OnePlus 15
• OnePlus 15T
• OnePlus 13
• OnePlus 13T
• OnePlus 12
• OnePlus Ace 6 Supreme Edition
• OnePlus Ace 6
• OnePlus Ace 6T
• OnePlus Ace 6T Genshin Impact Custom Phone
• OnePlus Ace 5 Pro
• OnePlus Ace 5 Supreme Edition
• OnePlus Ace 5
• OnePlus Ace 5 Racing Edition
• OnePlus Pad 3 Pro
• OnePlus Pad 2

Disclaimer: The above details are translated from Chinese to English.