OnePlus just scheduled the end of OxygenOS. Here's when your phone changes

OnePlus published its Android 17 rollout schedule last week, and the headline isn't the dates. It's that the update isn't OxygenOS anymore. When your OnePlus phone gets Android 17, it switches to ColorOS, the software Oppo ships on its own phones and that OnePlus has used in China for years.

OxygenOS was the whole reason a lot of people bought OnePlus phones in the first place. Clean, fast, close to stock Android. That's over.

The schedule

• October 29: OnePlus 15 and OnePlus Pad 4.
• October 30: OnePlus 15R, OnePlus 13 and OnePlus 13s.
• November: OnePlus Open, 13R, 12, Nord 6, Nord CE6 and Pad 3.
• December: OnePlus 12R, 11, Nord 5, Nord CE6 Lite, Nord CE5, Pad 2 and Pad Go 2.
• First quarter of 2027: Nord 4, N6, N6x, N6 Lite and Pad Lite.

OnePlus hasn't said whether these are global dates or staged by region, and the writeups I read don't say whether the first builds are stable or beta. If you own one of these, treat the date as "the earliest you might see it" and back up your phone before then regardless.

Why this is happening

Earlier this year OnePlus confirmed what had been rumored for a while. It's winding down in North America and some other markets. The company said it would keep the software support it promised, and this schedule is that promise being kept. But it makes no sense to maintain two versions of Android for a shrinking customer base, so OxygenOS is folding into ColorOS.

If you're a OnePlus owner in the U.S., here's the plain version. Your phone is not dead. It's getting Android 17 and probably the security updates it was promised. But it's now an Oppo phone with a different badge, and the next phone you buy is probably not going to be a OnePlus, because they won't be selling one here.

What I'd actually do

I don't own a OnePlus. I test my Android ports on a Pixel 11 Pro XL and a Galaxy Z Fold8, so I'm writing this as a developer who has to make apps work on whatever people have, not as a OnePlus fan. And from that seat, this is the part that bugs me. Every Android skin handles layouts, notifications and background behavior a little differently. The same app can behave one way on Pixel, another on Samsung, and a third way on ColorOS. When a whole brand of phones changes skins in one update, every developer who supports them gets homework.

If you own a OnePlus phone, do three things before your date. Back it up to your Google account. Screenshot your settings, because ColorOS organizes them differently and you'll want to remember what you had on. And give it a week before you decide you hate it. Skins always feel wrong on day one.

If you're shopping, the honest answer is that the OnePlus 15 is still a good phone and it will get years of updates. But buying into a brand that's leaving your country is a bet I wouldn't make with my own money. Pixel and Samsung aren't going anywhere.

Verified October 16, 2026. Schedule, the ColorOS switch and the North America exit from Droid Life, which cites OnePlus's own community post. Region and stable vs beta details are not stated anywhere I could find. My test phones are mine.