OnePlus has now showcased OxygenOS 13.2, an update designed for the OnePlus Open. According to the company, it built OxygenOS 13.2 'from [the] ground up' to increase productivity. While the OnePlus Open has not begun shipping yet, OnePlus has provided an overview of its multitasking features.
OnePlus has now revealed its first foldable, overviews, pricing and camera details of which we have covered separately. The OnePlus Open also represents the company's first attempt at software tweaked for foldables, which it will ship as OxygenOS 13.2. As its name suggests, OnePlus has based OxygenOS 13.2 on Android 13 and not the newer Android 14.
Thus, OnePlus' commitment to delivering four years of OS upgrades is likely to leave the OnePlus Open running Android 17. Still, the device should receive security patch updates until late 2028. At any rate, OnePlus has demonstrated some of the multitasking features it has introduced to OxygenOS with OxygenOS 13.2, screenshots of which we have included below.
According to OnePlus, OxygenOS 13.2 provides approximately 95% app compatibility without 'forcing weird visual or use adjustments or resizing'. OnePlus has also integrated a taskbar for jumping between pinned apps or recent documents and apps. However, it seems that OnePlus has a way to go before reaching Samsung's level of software optimisation for foldables.
In its early review, The Verge explains that OxygenOS 13.2 cannot show four apps at once, a staple of One UI on Galaxy Z Fold devices. Also, the OnePlus Open does not handle opening a second app on its main display as well as the Galaxy Z
Fold5 does, with it simply shunting the first to one side and not into split screen mode. Still, it appears that the OnePlus Open will ship with more multitasking options than the Pixel Fold, which Google has sought to address with Android 14 QPR1.