OnePlus is one of the companies that typically adds an alert slider to its phones. It’s a super convenient way to silence your phone without waking it. However, as useful as the alert slider is, OnePlus might change it.
At this point, we don’t know too much about what the company plans to do. That’s pretty shocking, as the company’s co-founder, Pete Lau, posted an extremely lengthy forum post about it. What we can say is that there will be changes coming to future OnePlus devices.
OnePlus could change the alert slider
“[A]s much as I love the Alert Slider, I kept asking myself the same question. How can it do more?” This is something that Lau said in the post. He regarded the alert slider as one of his favorite features on the company’s phones. Its popularity was the reason that it made its way over to Oppo phones.
However, all things must change at some point. “One of the most common requests we’ve heard over the years? ‘Let me customize the Alert Slider.’ And honestly, I wanted that too” said Lau. So, the company is going to move away from the alert slider and instead settle on a customizable button. This is something that people have been begging for for years. We’ve seen several phones with dedicated Google Assistant buttons, but most people would have preferred a button that could summon anything.
Well, it looks like this is the route that OnePlus is going in. However, Lau didn’t only say that it was going to be a customizable button. He referred to it as a button that adapts to you. That’s a pretty odd statement, but it points to the company wanting to do something different with the button. We’ll have to wait to see what that means. In the post, he mentioned that there’s not much he can say now.
While future OnePlus phones will get a customizable button, the company will still find a way for people to silence their phones without unlocking them. Again, he didn’t provide a ton of information. Anyway, we know that we’ll see some difference down the line, and we just hope that it doesn’t fix what ain’t broke.
