{"id":85404,"date":"2025-10-18T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85404\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:55:08","slug":"somethings-screwy-with-this-oxygenos-16-vs-one-ui-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85404\/","title":{"rendered":"Something’s screwy with this OxygenOS 16 vs. One UI demo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n

TL;DR<\/p>\n

OnePlus has detailed its upcoming OxygenOS 16 update.
\nA head-to-head comparison with Samsung One UI was meant to show that OnePlus\u2019s software is more respsonsive.
\nCloser viewing shows One UI failed to keep pace largely due to user error.<\/p>\n

OnePlus\u2019s latest OxygenOS 16 update is set to begin rolling out broadly next month<\/a>. The update will bring a bunch of new features<\/a>, including, OnePlus says, enhancements to its Parallel Processing, which is meant to make opening and switching apps feel faster. In a video showcasing the new update, OnePlus compared the app switching experience in OxygenOS to Samsung\u2019s One UI \u2014 but the demo seemed intentionally dishonest.<\/p>\n

As flagged by uyagoda_<\/a> on Threads, a split-screen pitting OxygenOS 16 against Samsung One UI (labeled \u201cOther Flagship UI\u201d) appears to show a Samsung phone hanging as a game loads while the OnePlus phone next to it continued to fly through cycling in and out of various apps. At a glance, it looks bad for Samsung, but on closer inspection, the One UI hiccup was pretty clearly user error.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/p>\n

\"google\"google<\/a><\/p>\n

The head-to-head comparison comes after a few seconds of a demonstrator opening and closing apps in OxygenOS 16 on its own. \u201cAs you can see,\u201d OnePlus\u2019s Arthur Lam says as the Samsung phone appears on screen next to OnePlus\u2019s, \u201cothers just cannot keep up.\u201d You can see it at the 19:27 mark in the video below.<\/p>\n

Watching the segment closely, it\u2019s obvious that the reason One UI wasn\u2019t able to \u201ckeep up\u201d is that the presenter was operating the Samsung phone incorrectly, at one point opening a game, then repeatedly tapping where the home button would be if the game weren\u2019t in full screen. (To access the navigation keys in this situation, you\u2019d have to first swipe up from the bottom of the screen.)<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem like there was any camera or software trickery involved here, and as demonstrated, OxygenOS 16 does indeed look very snappy \u2014 but the side-by-side with One UI was hardly in good faith. Text in the corner of the screen during the demo advises viewers not to \u201cattempt to replicate any actions or tests demonstrated in this video,\u201d but I have a feeling that\u2019s a warning Samsung fans won\u2019t heed.<\/p>\n

Thank you for being part of our community. Read our\u00a0Comment Policy<\/a> before posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority TL;DR OnePlus has detailed its upcoming OxygenOS 16 update. A head-to-head comparison with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,5150,41070,869,1941,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-85404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-oneplus","12":"tag-oneplus-oxygenos","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-samsung-one-ui","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}