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OnePlus has announced the OnePlus 9RT OxygenOS 13 Open Beta program for Indian users. This comes after the OnePlus 9RT Android 13 Closed Beta program which went live a couple of months ago. OnePlus took it to the OnePlus Community forum to make a formal announcement for the same. OnePlus’s propriety Android skin – OxygenOS 13 brings with it several changes and new features including an all-new aquamorphic design and seamless interconnection.

To recall, the OnePlus 9RT was launched in early 2022 but it came pre-loaded with Android 11-based OxygenOS 11. The handset received the Android 12 Stable update in July 2022. Let us take a look at the OnePlus 9RT OxygenOS 13 Open Beta changlogs and installation procedure.

OnePlus 9RT OxygenOS 13 Open Beta: Changelogs and Features

OnePlus OxygenOS 13 brings an all-new aquamorphic design to the OnePlus 9RT. Apart from it, the update adds a new Kids Space, which lets users set screen time limits and ambient light reminders for kids. Apart from it, OnePlus has also introduced a few new security and privacy features.

Aquamorphic Design

• Adds Aquamorphic Design theme colors for enhanced visual comfort.
• Applies the Aquamorphic Design philosophy to animations to make them natural and vivid.
• Upgrades to Quantum Animation Engine 4.0, with a new behavior recognition feature, which recognizes complex gestures and provides optimized interactions.
• Optimizes UI layers for a clearer and neater visual experience.
• Applies real-world physical motions to animations to make them look more natural and intuitive.
• Adapts responsive layouts to accommodate different screen sizes to improve readability.
• Optimizes fonts for better readability.
• Enriches and optimizes illustrations for features by incorporating multicultural and inclusive elements.

Efficiency

• Adds Meeting Assistant to enhance the meeting connecting and note-taking experience and introduces an option to make notifications more subtle and less distracting.
• Adds large folders to the Home screen. You can now open an app in an enlarged folder with just one tap and turn pages in the folder with a swipe.
• Adds a new type of Always-On Display that shows live information about music, ride-hailing, and food delivery. (Supports only some apps).
• Adds media playback control, and optimizes the Quick Settings experience.
• Adds more markup tools for screenshot editing.
• Optimizes Shelf. Swiping down on the Home screen will bring up Shelf by default. You can search content online and on your device.

Seamless interconnection
• Optimizes Screencast, with cast content automatically adapting to the target screen.
• Optimizes earphone connectivity to deliver a more seamless experience. 

Personalization

• Optimizes Bitmoji to offer more Always-On Display animations.
• Optimizes Insight Always-On Display, with more personalized Always-On Display settings available.
• Optimizes Canvas Always-On Display, with more drawing tools and line colors available.

Security & privacy

• Adds an automatic pixelation feature for chat screenshots. The system can identify and automatically pixelate profile pictures and display names in a chat screenshot to protect your privacy.
• Adds regular clearing of clipboard data for privacy protection.
• Optimizes Private Safe. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is used to encrypt all files for enhanced security of private files.

Health & Digital wellbeing

• Adds Kid Space, providing screen time limit, ambient light reminders, and Eye-protecting display features.

OnePlus 9RT OxygenOS 13 Open Beta: Installation Procedure

OnePlus 9RT users willing to try the OxygenOS 13 Open Beta build need to the Open Beta firmware by heading over to this link. Post which they need to copy the downloaded file into their OnePlus 9RT’s internal storage. Users also need to enable developer mode which can be done by heading over to Settings -> About device -> Version -> Click Build number 7 times.

After downloading the file and enabling the developer mode, users can head over to Settings -> About device -> Up to date -> Click the top right button -> Local install -> Click on the corresponding installation package -> Extract -> Upgrade to update their device to Android 13.

OnePlus has also posted a set of prerequisites these include at least 5.5GB of free internal storage and at least 30% battery. Users must also ensure that their OnePlus 9RT is updated to C.07 firmware version.

Last month, OnePlus rolled out the Android 13 Stable update for the OnePlus 10 Pro. The company has already rolled out Android 13 Open Beta update for several smartphones including the OnePlus 10R, OnePlus 9 Pro, and OnePlus 9. We can expect the OnePlus 9RT to get an Android 13 Stable update in the next couple of months.

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