Actually I won’t miss the notifying slider on future OnePlus phones

When I first heard that OnePlus was planning to replace his Warning glassI was pretty disappointed. It is about as important for the brand’s identity as the proprietary superooc charging or the iconic green finish that has been around since the days of the OnePlus 8 series. I was particularly bummed when I realized that not only the alert switch that passed away, but that it would be replaced with a very iPhone-like multifunctional button-just another Android brand that tried to copy the largest rival.

So I sat down, ready to print all my complaints and ask OnePlus to change your mind, but I’ve ever realized that I can’t do it. I can’t insist that OnePlus sticks to the design features it has always had because change is not always a bad thing. After a few hours of thinking about it, I realized that I will not miss the notification slider, nor should you.

If I am honest, the main reason I do not want to miss the noticing slider I did not use it very often. I usually just put the phone to vibrate and leave it there, whether I use an iPhone, a pixel or something with a nice sound profile that Nothing phone 3a. Sure, if I expect an urgent conversation or an important message, I will turn on the sound, but maybe it happens once a month at best. So a hardware button dedicated to a job, and a job just didn’t feel like the most useful decision for me. But don’t worry, it’s not just OnePlus’s Alert slider that I ignored – I didn’t use Apple Mute Switch very often.

Besides, when I sometimes adjust the volume of my phone, I never forced myself to reach after the alert slider anyway. For me it is always too high and too far on the opposite side of what the OnePlus device is in my pocket, which makes it difficult to reach without using two hands. And since most of Best Android phones I do not go through waking sliders, I have just become so used to adjusting my sound levels with the volume lower that it is a difficult habit to break over a few weeks. Oh, and I appreciate that the volume rockers let me fine -tune the ring tone, the alert sounds and the media volume separately.

Of course, I realize that you can be in the opposite situation – you can be a long -time OnePlus user who has learned to live and die from the alert slider. You can stretch for it almost every day out of the instinct and be crushed to see it go. If that is the case, I would also point out that the notifying slider does not really disappear, at least not quite, you will probably have to adapt to a slightly different movement when OnePlus 14 or OnePlus Open 2 comes out.

As I suggested above, OnePlus is not just trenching the alert slider. It is not to accept the one button that separates its phones for no reason – it copies Apple. You can be angry at it and question why so many Android brands are aiming for their biggest rival, but I don’t think it’s the right way to look at it. Instead, I see this change as a development of the notification slider, which I think will make OnePlus phones more flexible in the future.

If apple ditched the blunt switch for a Action button Teached me anything, it’s that I don’t want a dedicated dampen button. I already have volume rockers to adjust my sound, so why add another button that does the same? I would much rather have a rapid exchange for not disturbing (which is not the same as a blunt switch), a quick way to start my camera, or quickly open the Google Translate – as all the action button can do with some planning.

However, my problem with the action button is that Apple just seems to want it to do one thing at a time. You can configure it for some of the tasks mentioned above, but there is no difference between a double pressure, a triple press, or just hold down the action button to the fingers. If OnePlus wants to stick the landing, it will make its own action key to a truly multifunctional button and opens the door for all kinds of adjustments. Although it doesn’t, at least I don’t have to worry about it launching Bixby, and it feels like enough of a win to me.