The OnePlus Nord CE 5 is now the third Nord-series smartphone to receive the stable OxygenOS 16 update, following the Nord 5 and Nord 4.
As per the announcement by OnePlus, the update is currently in the rollout phase and will be released in batches, meaning some of you may have to wait for this update to land on your Nord CE 5. Other than this, the firmware version it is being rolled out with is IN: CPH2717_16.0.1.300(EX01), and the total size of the update is 3.32GB. Since it is the first day of the rollout announcement, it would be too early to comment on how the battery drain is or if there are any other issues or not, but so far no issue has been reported by any. Regarding the rollout for other regions, there is no exact date as of now, but it can be expected in a week or two.
Here is the complete Changelog of the OxygenOS 16.0.1.300 Update for the OnePlus Nord CE 5
Fast & Smooth
Parallel Processing
- System apps now display animations that begin and end at intuitive places, making interactions feel smoother.
- Introduces fluid drag-and-drop animations for Home screen icons, widgets, folders, and Smart Sidebar—delivering a natural, uninterrupted interaction experience.
- The text selection magnifier now fades in and out with fluid animations for a more natural experience.
- Adds seamless status bar transitions as you open the notification drawer or Quick Settings, with support for interrupting the gesture at any point.
- Enjoy a slicker visual experience with new, smooth animations for the audio playback controls in Quick Settings.
- Adds concurrent animation support for app starts and exits from the Home screen in button navigation mode, ensuring a more polished and uninterrupted flow.
- Enhances charging and fingerprint animations with organic light wave patterns that mimic natural movements.
- The updated scrolling mechanics deliver a more connected feeling between your touch and the on-screen movement.
Trinity Engine
- Trinity Engine optimizes workload and resources on the fly, maintaining smooth performance across videos, gaming, and extended camera use.
- Enhances steady gaming performance through intelligent analysis and prioritization of key computational tasks. Concurrent operations like pop-up windows and video calls are managed via smart scheduling, reducing power drain while ensuring stability and smoothness.
- Photo albums now load faster and use less power when displaying thumbnails, improving overall battery life.
- Faster previews for cached videos and thumbnails in supported third-party apps
- Power saving mode now features tiered performance management that adapts to battery level, ensuring longer endurance with smoother performance.
OnePlus AI, Intelligently Yours
Mind Space
- Adds Mind Assistant on the Mind Space home page—ask it to search your saved content, with options to favorite, copy, and more.
- Mind Space now suggests collections-tap to create them instantly for quicker content browsing.
AI-powered Photos
- New visual update for Photos brings an immersive, seamless browsing experience.
- Photo albums are now easier to navigate with clearer categories and personalized sorting for frequently used ones.
- Checking photo info is easier—just swipe up for details and where it’s stored.
- Discover a suite of new video editing features like splitting, merging, adjusting playback speed, transitions, and adding background music. Produce high-quality videos directly from your edits with ease.
- You can now use automatic straightening when cropping and rotating portrait and architectural images in Photos.
- Key video editing features—such as crop, rotation, parameter adjustment, and filters—have been refined to deliver a more polished video editing experience.
- Motion photos can now be instantly converted to slow-motion, highlighting every vibrant detail.
- AI Portrait Glow identifies challenging conditions like dim light, backlight, or overhead lighting, using AI to reconstruct balanced illumination for more natural-looking portraits.
AI-powered Notes
- A new block editing mode lets you swipe left or right to select text, images, tables, or documents, enabling batch formatting and rapid repositioning more efficiently than ever.
- Touch and hold on images to switch between views, now with a side-by-side display for a smoother viewing experience.
- Share complete notes in one link, including text, images, audio, and videos.
- Introduces text highlighting: touch and hold to bold or change color, making it faster to emphasize key notes.
- New text formatting tools—switch fonts, apply wavy underlines, insert dividers, or highlight text—for more stylish and personalized notes.
AI Recorder
- Redesigns the Recorder app with a refreshed interface and more intuitive interactions.
- Adds the smart naming feature, which automatically generates titles for recordings based on their content, making them easier to find and identify.
- AI-driven noise cancellation enhances recordings by reducing background noise and highlighting human voices.
- Recording is smarter—contexts such as meetings, lectures, or interviews are auto-detected, with matching templates applied for better usability.
- Adds link sharing for recordings—send audio, transcript, and summaries all at once with one tap.
AI Writer
- The writing assistant is now more versatile. Beyond crafting social media posts from your images and text, you can freely generate a wide range of content—from work summaries and personal reflections to speeches and self-introductions. It’s your go-to tool for any writing need.
- Generate mind maps and tables from text instantly with the enhanced document creation feature.
AI VoiceScribe
- AI VoiceScribe and Call Summary are now smarter with automatic context detection for deeper insights. Alternative summary templates are available for you to choose from to get the most practical information.
Uniquely Yours
Your Phone, Your Creative Playground
- The dynamic interplay between light and surroundings can now be captured by the innovative light field technology to deliver an authentic, immersive, and naturally beautiful visual experience.
- Subtle play of light and shadow enriches the overall look and tactile feel of the system.
- The Aurora visual effects bring a premium and refined look with upgraded particle effects, glow effects, ripple effects, and chromatic aberration.
- Enhances design elements like diagrams and illustrations for improved readability and style.
- Introduces the new system-wide serif font “One Serif”, optimized for immersive reading with a classic, elegant aesthetic.
- Adds immersive weather visuals rendered in real time using Luminous Rendering Engine and live weather data for lifelike atmospheric effects.
- Optimizes the design and feel of core system interfaces like the notification drawer, Quick Settings, Setup Wizard, and system upgrades for clearer information and a more refined look.
- Apps like Clock, Calculator, and Compass are redesigned with lifelike textures and lighting for a more engaging experience.
- Improves the “Ring”
fingerprint animation on the Lock screen by incorporating a glowing effect for a more aesthetically pleasing appearance.
Flux Home screen
- New Home screen icons showcase lifelike visuals and intricate detail through light field styling.
- Drag to resize icons and add app shortcuts for a more tailored Home screen.
- Large folder layouts get more variety. Hold to select 9-grid, 4-grid, or feature a bigger icon for the first app.
- Introduces an uncluttered Home screen design by removing text beneath icons.
- The Home screen edit mode interface has been refined, and you can rearrange the page order.
- Enjoy a cleaner, more organized Home screen with optimized grid and layout-making icons, folders, and widgets look tidier than ever.
- Quickly find apps in Drawer mode by swiping the index bar.
- Drawer mode now organizes your apps into categories, making them easier to find.
- The search bar in Drawer mode has been relocated to the Home screen bottom for improved accessibility.
- App suggestions in the Drawer are now more helpful, prioritizing the apps you use most often and those you’ve used recently.
- The Home screen, Lock screen & style page is now more structured and easier to navigate.
AI-powered Flux themes
- AI-enhanced flux themes highlight epic stills and vibrant moments.
- Experience the Sublime Grandeur motion wallpapers: as clouds part, sunlight floods your Lock screen in dazzling hues.
- Introduces multiple sets of motion wallpapers, bringing your screen to life with dynamic, vivid scenes that unleash unconfined vitality.
- Now you can set motion photos and videos as your wallpaper with AI-powered depth effects, creating a vibrant look each time your screen lights up.
- Adds a modular, real-time editing framework where changes appear instantly for greater freedom.
- When editing certain Flux themes, you can now resize the clock.
- You can now customize widget names, making the Home screen more personalized and unique.
- The Lock screen now allows configuring lower-left and lower-right shortcuts for instant access.
- Adds support for flux theme icon styles that automatically adapt to your wallpaper colors for a cohesive look.
- Specially crafted Dark mode icon styles offer a more comfortable viewing experience and help protect your eyes.
Communication and interconnection
Touch to share
- Touch to share allows you to quickly share content and files while viewing in Photos, Notes, and My Files.
OnePlus Connect
- Mirror your phone to your PC—unlock it across devices, share files between systems, and even open multiple phone windows for multitasking. Handy shortcuts let you hide, show, and resize windows in a snap.
- New cross-device search in O+ Connect lets you search files across your PC and phone at once.
- Copy text on one device and paste it on another with new cross-device clipboard sharing.
- Device Connect settings are now grouped by device type and use case, simplifying navigation.
Smart Cars
- Enhances in-car Bluetooth pairing to provide a more seamless experience.
My Devices
- Adds My Devices in Quick Settings, letting you check and control all your linked devices in one place.
- Introduces My Devices widgets on the Home screen, allowing you to add widgets for individual devices or a comprehensive device overview for simpler management.
Network optimization
- Adds a new interface for Al LinkBoost Network Engine, where you can view the number of network optimizations, reduction in lag time, and more.
- You can now receive real-time notifications for network acceleration in scenarios with poor network conditions.
- You can now test your network speed and check network status details, such as latency and upload/download speeds.
- Share your phone’s Wi-Fi connection with your tablet for seamless browsing.
- Enhanced Wi-Fi algorithms boost network performance in weak-signal areas like elevators, bathrooms, and office corners.
- AI LinkBoost enhancements improve kernel scheduling, ensuring more reliable connectivity for widely used apps.
Attention to detail, everywhere
Camera
- AI-enhanced Doc Scanner instantly transforms physical documents into digital files for storage and printing.
Game Assistant
- Record gameplay without distractions—notifications, Game Assistant, or floating windows are now excluded to protect your privacy.
- Choose recording quality in Game Capture — motion photos and Flashback clips now in high definition.
- New Game Capture feature: use Motion screenshots and Flashback recording together for a more convenient capture experience.
Notifications & Quick Settings
- Quick Settings now offers expanded customization: 2×1 tiles, plus removal, addition, and rearrangement of audio, brightness, volume, and My Devices modules.
- Streamlined notification design maximizes space usage and delivers a quicker browsing experience.
More details
- Play ringtones only in your earbuds when they’re connected, preventing sound from disturbing others in public.
- A dedicated page for Al settings has been added for you to manage all Al features.
- Adds Bosnian to the list of available system languages.
- Search in Settings now supports Al-powered results, suggestions, and cross-app queries.
- Redesigns Smart Sidebar with refreshed visual styling, now supporting single/dual-column display.
- Faster, more flexible sharing with a redesigned panel, showing contacts and customizable app links.
- Banner notification interactions are now more streamlined, with apps opening in small windows instead of full view.
- Foreground and background activity times are now displayed on a redesigned battery page for accurate tracking.
- Upgrades data transfer speed and experience when migrating data from iOS to OnePlus devices.
- Integrates the November 2025 Android security patch to enhance system security.
Security & privacy
Others
- Improves the virus scanning speed in Phone Manager.
- Touch and hold any app icon on the Home screen to access options for locking or hiding it.
