OnePlus unleashes a huge wave of AI tools for its smartphones to make your life a lot easier

As the mobile AI wars wage on, companies worldwide are developing their own versions of AI assistants. Not to be left behind, OnePlus has announced its huge "OnePlus AI" suite as part of its initiative to bring common AI benefits to its smartphones. And while some features won't be available to all countries (at least to begin with), the announced AI tools sound like genuinely helpful tools that will help people in their day-to-day lives.

OnePlus announces its big AI initiative, including OnePlus AI

In an emailed press release, OnePlus broke down everything it's planning with its push for AI. One of the most notable changes is a new "Plus Key," a physical button on the side of your phone. This will first debut with the India-only OnePlus 13s, but the company plans to roll it out "across all OnePlus smartphones launching this year."

You can customise the Plus Key to perform common actions with your phone, such as opening the camera or starting a translation. It's also the gateway for launching the new AI Plus

Mind tool, which combines your thoughts and considerations with the information presented on-screen to help you take notes, schedule dates, and keep your digital organization in check. Definitely something I can see myself putting to good use with my own scheduling.

The company also announced a huge array of AI tools for you to try, and they all sound great:

• AI VoiceScribe (coming to India only): Enables users to record, summarize, and translate calls and meetings directly within popular messaging, video, and online meeting applications.
• AI Call Assistant (coming to India only): On the OnePlus 13s, the OnePlus Dialer will offer options for automatic Call Summaries or real-time Call Translation during calls.
• AI Translation: Consolidates all translation capabilities – text, live voice, camera-based, and screen translation – into a single, intuitive app, making it easier to understand foreign languages and connect globally.
• AI Search: AI Search enables conversational, natural language queries, seamlessly searching local files, settings, notes, and calendars for contextually relevant results. Integrated with AI Plus Mind, it enhances productivity through intuitive, interactive searches.
• AI Reframe: Intelligently analyzes photo scenes, identifies the subject, and adjusts composition, generating multiple creative framing options for users to choose from.
• AI Best Face 2.0 (coming this summer via OTA): Enhances group photos by automatically detecting and correcting issues like closed eyes or suboptimal expressions for more polished results. This feature supports images with up to 20 individuals and works even with photos captured on other devices.

If you're unfamiliar with the OnePlus range, we have praised it in the past. In our choices of the best phones in 2025, we gave two of its devices the "best affordable flagship" and "best value pick" crowns, and we called the OnePlus 13 "the iPhone killer we always wanted."