5 steps to make your Oppo look like a OnePlus smartphone

The app also includes wallpapers from the Paranoid Android custom ROM (Image: Abstruct)

Just fire up the app, scroll to “Official OnePlus Wallpapers” and pick a wallpaper from one of the OG OnePlus devices – I liked the one titled OP7 – 1 because it reminded me of one of the company’s most loved devices.

Apply OnePlus icon pack

ColorOS 13 icons look great but they just don’t cut it for the true OnePlus stan that you are. I recommend OxygenOS 12 round – icon pack by DebojyotiChakraborty that’s available on the Play Store. After you’re done with the download, perform the following steps:

1. Press and hold down on the home screen

2. Select Icons

3. Apply the icon pack and set the Icon slider to the max

4. Hit the Apply button at the bottom

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Additionally, you can also set the icon grid to 5×6 since that’s how things were on OxygenOS 11. To do that:

1. Press and hold down on the home screen

2. Select Layout

3. Scroll to 5×6 and select the option

Apply OnePlus font

OxygenOS 11, the last version of the Android skin free from the clutches of Oppo, introduced the OnePlus Sans font replacing the original Slate font. This font (or at least a version of it) will be available on your Oppo device running ColorOS 13. All you need to do to apply it is follow the steps given below.

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1. Open Settings > Display & brightness > Font

2. Select One Sans

3. Hit Apply

Change lock screen clock style

The default lock screen style on ColorOS 13 is very Oppo-like with its vertical clock. OnePlus fans will recall that OxygenOS 10 had a centrally-aligned lock screen clock. To get that look back, follow the steps given below.

1. Open Settings > Home screen & Lock screen > Clock style

2. Select Horizontal

Bring back the navigation pill

1. Navigate to Settings > Additional Settings > System navigation

2. Turn off the Hide gesture guide bar switch

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And there you have it. These are all the shenanigans I performed as soon as I got an Oppo Reno 8T 5G for review, being the customisation freak that I am. It was only my moral obligation to share these steps with the world. Using them, I was able to turn my home screen from the one on the left to the one on the right, as shown above.