ColorOS 11: Create a smooth and personalized user experience

Ten months after the release of ColorOS 7, OPPO officially launched the ColorOS 11 mobile operating system. From 7 to 11, the new system has completed a "quadruple jump", which also means that it has changed a lot. As the first batch of customized OSs based on deep optimization of Android 11, ColorOS 11 has been improved to varying degrees in aspects such as design, efficiency and security.

ColorOS 11, with the theme of "Creation without Borders", returns the right of choice to users, allowing everyone to customize their own interface according to their own preferences. From the screen, desktop, and wallpapers that are visible at a glance, to the sounds, fonts, and controls that fully experience the details, users can make customized adjustments. Take the screen-off display as an example. ColorOS 11 can not only display simple numbers, clocks and weather, but also generate different styles of patterns. Users can make the phone more personalized through their own hand-painted creations and unique signatures, increasing the usability of the phone. Playfulness.

ColorOS 11 supports a number of personalized customization functions. Users can freely set the system’s color, style, layout, fonts, ringtones, etc.

Long press on a blank space on the desktop to change the desktop wallpaper, layout, adjust icon size and App name font size.

The new dark mode also has levels. By adjusting the contrast, three options of "enhanced", "moderate" and "soft" are added to more comprehensively cover the usage scenario, protect the user's eyes, and also reduce the The power consumption of the fuselage. The arrangement and adjustment of icons are also full of free customization. ColorOS 11 supports various styles of icon display, and also provides customization options. You can modify the size, shape and application name of the icon according to your preferences.

In the "Display and Brightness" settings, dark mode adds three options: "Enhanced", "Moderate" and "Soft".

In terms of sound effects, OPPO Relax has added a new sound combination function, allowing for more ways to play. Users can create unique sounds from any combination of various scenes, such as adding the sound of rain or the sea to natural sounds, and mitigating the sounds of fountains and parks in the city. When I feel depressed, I like to listen to the city sounds that come with ColorOS 11, and experience the early morning and evening in Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo and other places up close, and appreciate the different customs of cities in various countries.

When you are irritable, click the "OPPO Relax" icon on the desktop to quietly listen to natural and urban sounds, which has a good stress-reducing effect.

Taking into account the popularity of full-screen displays, ColorOS 11 provides a variety of gesture operation methods. In "Settings - Convenient Tools", users can choose the navigation method and gesture experience. For example, in terms of navigation, ColorOS 11 has sliding gestures on both sides, virtual buttons and sliding up gestures. Users can easily take scrolling screenshots by simply sliding their fingers down and out of the screen, changing the cumbersome long screenshot mechanism of the native Android system. , which not only reduces users’ learning costs but also improves their memory, making it more convenient to share news, interesting stories and other content that require long screenshots.

A red envelope assistant has been added to "Settings" - "Convenient Tools", which allows you to quickly jump to the red envelope chat interface when notifications are turned on on WeChat.

In the gesture sense, ColorOS 11 supports users to capture the screen through three-finger swipe, long press, etc. Full-screen screenshots, area screenshots, and long screenshots are all very convenient. In addition, the newly added black screen gestures bring a more convenient experience. Drawing "V" can quickly turn on the flashlight, drawing "O" can activate the camera for snapshots, and users can also set other gestures to quickly launch applications, which is very convenient to operate. . Users who prefer the traditional Home button can also find the "floating ball" in the convenient tool, which can realize the navigation key function through single click, double click and long press.

ColorOS 11 supports a variety of motion sensing gestures, which can quickly launch multiple functions or applications when the screen is black. Users can also add somatosensory gestures at the bottom.

Based on rich gesture operations, users can use the "Flash Window" function very efficiently. Flash Window is a new interactive form introduced by ColorOS 11 that integrates system windows. Through specific gesture operations, the App can be in any state of full screen, floating window, or mini floating window. Different window forms can be switched smoothly, thereby achieving parallel multi-tasking. deal with. Among them, the App in full-screen and floating window modes can be interacted with, while the mini floating window only supports status viewing.

By clicking the top bar of the Flash window and the settings button in the upper right corner of the multitasking card, users can easily switch between full screen, floating window and mini floating window states, making multitasking more efficient.

For example, when using a sticky note and needing to insert a picture, the user can call up the sidebar from the left and open the small window mode of the photo album, then long press the picture to be inserted and drag it to the sticky note. You can even drag multiple pictures at the same time. Applications in the floating window state can switch the window state more conveniently. The user only needs to long press the small horizontal bar above the small window and three icons will appear, which are to full screen, close and convert to a mini floating window, which greatly improves the efficiency of the application. Operational efficiency.

ColorOS 11 has also put a lot of effort into protecting user privacy. Camera, microphone, and location information have new authorization methods of "Allow this time only" and "Allow when using". ColorOS 11 will also intelligently determine the frequency of application use. For low-frequency but highly authorized applications, users can withdraw all previous permissions to prevent data from being maliciously stolen and effectively protect personal data information. In addition to application authorization, ColorOS 11 also has comprehensive cloud backup capabilities. Photo albums, contacts, call records, documents, system settings, and even WeChat chat data can all be backed up to the cloud, and can be viewed and restored at any time to ensure that no data is lost. .

Location information, microphone and camera permissions all support "Allow this time only" and "Allow during use" authorization methods to better protect user privacy.

ColorOS 11 enhances various functions of the intelligent voice assistant Breeno and adds Breeno screen recognition function. In the current application interface, users can quickly wake up the Breeno screen recognition function through designated shortcuts (single-finger long press, two-finger press, or thumb press) and side borders to recognize text, pictures, videos, and music. Combined with the application scenario the user is using, shortcut options are intelligently provided. For example, when shopping, Breeno screen recognition will analyze the products in the picture and check their historical low prices, making it easier for users to compare prices during shopping.

The voice assistant Breeno has a new screen recognition function, which can be used to translate multi-language texts, compare shopping prices, and listen to songs to identify songs.

In order to better understand the user's operating habits, Breeno will learn the user's personal preferences. The user can also set the location of home and work, network, commuting method and key time points in the settings. After mastering user preferences, Breeno commands can play a greater role. In the independent Breeno command application on the desktop, ColorOS 11 divides the tedious interaction steps in the past into two scenarios. Actions that require human confirmation before execution are called "one-click commands", and actions that can be executed without human confirmation are called "one-click commands". Automatic instructions. One-click commands can quickly navigate to a designated location, play music when getting up, and other operations. Automatic commands are used to automatically trigger operations in specific scenarios, enabling automatic cleaning of the system late at night, and playing music after connecting to a designated Bluetooth device.

To make Breeno smarter, you can set personal habits in personal information and preferences in advance. Breeno Assistant will also record the user's behavior and habits during daily use.

In the “Discover” option, ColorOS 11 also provides a variety of commands suitable for different scenarios, which users can add to their phones for execution according to their own habits. With these pre-configured instructions, it can automatically clock in at work, automatically turn on silent mode, automatically turn on WLAN, etc.

Breeno instructions can execute user-preconfigured operation commands, and users can also Click the "+" sign to the right of the corresponding command in "Discover" to download it to your phone.

For video shooting needs, ColorOS 11 provides a super anti-shake function, which eliminates the impact of jitter when moving the camera through multi-source sensor information fusion and intelligent analysis of anti-shake scenes. What’s commendable is that ColorOS 11 also opens this function to third-party applications. When we use apps such as Douyin and Kuaishou to shoot videos or live broadcasts, we can also use ColorOS 11’s video super anti-shake function to produce stable and clear videos. video. In addition, third-party applications can also access the ultra-wide-angle lens of the mobile phone and obtain most of the capabilities of the native camera, making the video viewing range larger and accommodating more content.

When shooting videos using third-party apps such as Douyin and Kuaishou, you can use the super anti-shake function and ultra-wide-angle lens of the native camera.

For Vloggers, shooting is only one part of it, the more difficult part is how to "cut". ColorOS 11 also adds a Soloop instant recording mode to the camera, providing a wealth of Vlog templates, which can intelligently analyze the highlights of the picture and add cool transition effects and light effects to the video. If you have a certain foundation in video shooting, I recommend that after shooting the video, open Soloop in the "Selected" folder on the desktop to record and post-edit the video. Compared with the templates in the shooting interface, the functions provided here are richer. In addition to adding music, filters, special effects, and endings to the video, the voice in the video can also be automatically recognized and converted into text subtitles to create exclusive sharing videos.

Soloop provides rich shooting templates to automatically add various effects to videos.

After the video shooting is completed, you can find the "Soloop Recording" application in the "Selected" folder on the desktop. It has richer editing functions and can even convert the voice in the video into text subtitles.

In ColorOS 11, OPPO has also strengthened privacy protection and simplified users’ daily operations through the Breeno command function. In addition, ColorOS 11 is a highly personalized customization system, and users can transform the system UI into their favorite style.

In response to the needs of today's young users, ColorOS 11 has enhanced video production and editing functions. If you are a Vloger, you will definitely like it. Due to limited space, we will continue to experience vivo OriginOS and Xiaomi MIUI 12.5 in the next issue to see what outstanding features they have.