With the launch of Android 16, OnePlus pushed their AI tools on every smartphone I own. They are very hard to disable for anyone non tech-savvy.
| Basic Information | |
|---|---|
| Release Year | |
| Product Type | AI |
| In Production | Yes |
| Official Website | https://www.oneplus.com/global/oneplus-ai |
Consumer-impact summary
Incidents
This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Oneplus AI tools / Mindspace category.
Example incident one (date)
- Main article: link to the main CR Wiki article
OnePlus AI
Oneplus AI tools / Mindspace Basic Information Release Year Product Type AI In Production Yes Official Website https://www.oneplus.com/global/oneplus-ai
OnePlus AI is a set of tools that is supposed to help you search more intuitively, be more productive, help you with your daily tasks, etc.
It includes a few apps:
- AI VoiceScribe: live translations
- AI Writer: text generation
- AI Call Assistant: in-call translation
- AI Translation: live, conversation, image, screen translations
- AI Notes: summarization, cleaning up, formatting, text generation, ...
- AI Perfect Shot: helps you correct small imperfection on your photos (closed eyes, missing smile, ...)
- AI Unblur: self-explainatory
- AI Reflection Eraser: self-explainatory
- AI Eraser: self-explainatory
- AI Detail Boost: image sharpening and enhancement
- AI Clear Face: mix of everything to get your faces unblurred, more detailed, ...
- AI Reframe: Automatic reframing of the picture
While those features may be useful for some, the fact they were forced installed and opt-out after the fact is an issue.
Moreover, it can be tricky to disable them.
The issue with disabling
Besides the fact it's opt-out and installed/enabled by default, the issue arises when you try to disable a few of the features : you are almost forced into accepting their privacy policy before having access to the disable button.
I have made a little video here that will demonstrate what I'm talking about : https://youtube.com/shorts/EaGJsftd3fc
Actually disabling AI Writer
The only way I found to disable it once and for all was to delete the app via ADB.
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.oplus.aiwriter
This will only disable AI Writer, which is the one that was still displaying for me after disabling in the settings.
OnePlus AI
Oneplus AI tools / Mindspace Basic Information Release Year Product Type AI In Production Yes Official Website https://www.oneplus.com/global/oneplus-ai
OnePlus AI is a set of tools that is supposed to help you search more intuitively, be more productive, help you with your daily tasks, etc.
It includes a few apps:
- AI VoiceScribe: live translations
- AI Writer: text generation
- AI Call Assistant: in-call translation
- AI Translation: live, conversation, image, screen translations
- AI Notes: summarization, cleaning up, formatting, text generation, ...
- AI Perfect Shot: helps you correct small imperfection on your photos (closed eyes, missing smile, ...)
- AI Unblur: self-explainatory
- AI Reflection Eraser: self-explainatory
- AI Eraser: self-explainatory
- AI Detail Boost: image sharpening and enhancement
- AI Clear Face: mix of everything to get your faces unblurred, more detailed, ...
- AI Reframe: Automatic reframing of the picture
While those features may be useful for some, the fact they were forced installed and opt-out after the fact is an issue.
Moreover, it can be tricky to disable them.
The issue with disabling
Besides the fact it's opt-out and installed/enabled by default, the issue arises when you try to disable a few of the features : you are almost forced into accepting their privacy policy before having access to the disable button.
I have made a little video here that will demonstrate what I'm talking about : https://youtube.com/shorts/EaGJsftd3fc
Actually disabling AI Writer
The only way I found to disable it once and for all was to delete the app via ADB.
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.oplus.aiwriter
This will only disable AI Writer, which is the one that was still displaying for me after disabling in the settings.
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