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7 ColorOS 16 Features You’ll Wish Every Smartphone Had

By Partner Content | Updated: 18 August 2026 22:23 IST

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There are phone features you try once and forget about. Then there are the ones that make you wonder why every smartphone doesn't already have them. The difference is simple: does it actually change something you do every day?

Think about a typical day. You wake up to messages, save something for later, head into a meeting, juggle work and plans, take a few photos and end the day with a phone full of information you meant to come back to.

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Your smartphone is involved in all of it, yet every task tends to work differently.

Here are 7 OPPO's ColorOS 16 features that you wish you had on your smartphone:

1. AI Mind Space: Making Sense of Your Screenshot Chaos

A restaurant you want to try. A flight detail. A product you might buy. A reel you want to recreate. Your screenshot folder is probably full of things you meant to revisit. AI Mind Space can understand saved content, organise and group related information into Smart Collections and make it easier to find later. Saw an interesting poster? Just point your camera at it and AI Mind Space can scan it directly through the viewfinder – easily detecting and adding details to your calendar. Planning a trip? It can bring together hotel details, restaurants and places to visit, while Mind Assistant can help turn that information into an itinerary. Your phone isn't just storing what you saved. It's helping you make use of it.

2. AI Mind Pilot: Don't Settle for the First Response

You ask one AI to research something. Another gives you a better answer. Suddenly, you're switching between three apps to finish one task. AI Mind Pilot brings models including Gemini, Perplexity and ChatGPT into one experience, allowing you to compare responses and choose what works best. It can also work with information saved in Mind Space, so you don't have to start from scratch - acting as your upgraded brainstorming partner.

More ways to get an answer, without more apps to manage.

3. AI Live Translation: No Need to Leave the Conversation

A lecture in another language. A seminar with an international speaker. A meeting with an overseas team. Keeping up shouldn't mean constantly switching to a translation app. AI Live Translation translates spoken conversations in real time and can generate a summary and action points afterwards.

You get the translation while the conversation is happening, and the key takeaways when it's over — without breaking the flow.

4. AI Menu Translation: No More Guessing What's on the Plate

A menu in another language can turn a simple meal into a guessing game. What are the ingredients? What does the dish look like? And how much does it cost? AI Menu Translation can translate dishes and ingredients, show dish images and convert prices, giving travellers the information they need without jumping between translation and other apps.

It can be especially useful when you're trying to avoid specific ingredients or simply want to know what you're ordering.

5. AI Bill Manager: Your Bills Shouldn't Be a Filing Job

A dinner receipt in your gallery. A cab payment in your messages. A work expense in your email. And a purchase made in another currency.

AI Bill Manager, integrated with AI Mind Space, can read receipts, screenshots, messages and voice inputs, then organise them into spending records. It can categorise expenses, track spending, handle multiple currencies and create monthly summaries. Your phone does the sorting, instead of you doing it at the end of the month.

6. AI Recording Summary: Daily MoM, Made Easier

Meetings end, but the work doesn't. Someone still has to remember what was discussed, who said what and what happens next.

AI Recording Summary can transcribe conversations, identify speakers and organise recordings and can turn them into concise recaps, highlighting key points, decisions and action items.

Whether it's a daily team meeting, client call or interview, your MoM is ready without writing it all down yourself.

7. Live Space: Information Without the Interruption

Is your cab here yet? Has the food arrived? Did your flight status change?

Normally, you unlock your phone, open an app and check.

Live Space brings ongoing updates into a compact view on the lock screen, keeping information accessible without making you leave what you're doing.

The information comes to you, instead of the other way around.

The Little Things Add Up

The best features aren't the ones you use once. They're the ones you quietly start depending on. OPPO's ColorOS 16 takes that approach - less app-hopping, less searching, less manual work, and more of the information you need, when you need it without having to search it manually.

Because the best smartphone experience isn't about doing more. It's about making everyday things easier.

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