{"id":301583,"date":"2025-12-06T04:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301583\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:24:20","slug":"oneplus-15-update-enables-165hz-for-these-three-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301583\/","title":{"rendered":"OnePlus 15 update enables 165Hz for these three apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OnePlus is now rolling out a new update for the recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/oneplus_15_5g-14206.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OnePlus 15<\/a>, which brings with it the usual performance improvements and bug fixes. However, there is a change that you won&#8217;t see in the update log, which we think is perhaps the most important one.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with version 16.0.1.305, OnePlus 15 users will be able to access the full 165Hz that the display is capable of in three additional apps. This includes WhatsApp, Instagram, and X (previously Twitter). Previously, this refresh rate was only accessible on a handful of games, with everything else topping out at 120Hz.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764995058_764_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"OnePlus 15 update enables 165Hz for these three apps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, there is a catch. Aside from the fact that it&#8217;s only available in those three apps, you also need to enable Developer Options to access this feature, since that&#8217;s where it is buried. While there is no risk in enabling the developer mode and the procedure to do so isn&#8217;t complicated, it can cause issues with certain apps, typically those from banks, and they may refuse to work unless this mode is disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the way the feature is implemented is also odd. You don&#8217;t get dynamic refresh rate in these apps once this mode is enabled, and the display stays pinned at 165Hz instead of dropping down to 1Hz when there is no activity.<\/p>\n<p>OnePlus 15 5G<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear why OnePlus chose to over-complicate things in this manner. The company could have simply provided the option to enable the full 165Hz in the Screen refresh rate setting within the Display &amp; brightness menu, which is concealed enough that most users still don&#8217;t know it exists. Anyone who makes their way down there would already know what they are getting into with the higher refresh rate (and the phone could just show a warning like it does right now). And you could have also retained dynamic refresh rate this way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"Why not just use this menu, OnePlus?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764995059_500_gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWhy not just use this menu, OnePlus?<\/p>\n<p>There is also something to be said about making an advertised feature of your phone be obscured at all; if a feature is important enough to be marketed to everyone then it should also be available to everyone by default, not through select apps and buried within arcane settings.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the refresh rate feature, the update also brings with it the following changes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764995060_195_gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"OnePlus 15 update enables 165Hz for these three apps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Version 16.0.1.305 is now rolling out to OnePlus 15 units in India, and should be available to other regions shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OnePlus is now rolling out a new update for the recently launched OnePlus 15, which brings with it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}