Earlier this year, OnePlus unceremoniously shut down operations in the US and Europe. While this decision means the brand no longer sells its hardware in these markets, it resulted in another change for current users: OxygenOS is on the way out. Future OnePlus software updates will be based on ColorOS, the skin that pilots OPPO devices.
Given that the two brands belong to the same parent company, it seemed only a matter of time. The two skins share many commonalities, but as my colleague Dhruv experienced recently running ColorOS 17 on his OnePlus 15, they couldn’t look or feel more different.