OnePlus used to be known for quick Android updates, but those days are gone. Although Samsung has already started to update most of its recent flagships to Android 11, the same update only arrived on two OnePlus phones (the 8 and the 8T). OnePlus has now shared a status report on the launch of OxygenOS 11, providing an approximate timeline for the coming months.
“Next week, OnePlus Nord will receive its first version of the OxygenOS 11 Open Beta,” the company said in a forum post. The OnePlus 7 and 7T series should also receive their first Open Betas around the same time. The company said it had a “data decryption problem” with the 7 / 7T series that delayed development, but was able to fix the problem in conjunction with Qualcomm. The OnePlus 6 / 6T series and Nord 10 5G / 100 will receive OxygenOS 11 at some point later.
The forum post also confirmed that OxygenOS 11 will not arrive on the OnePlus 5 and 5T, saying that the update is aimed at “the OnePlus 6 and later models.” The phones were launched in June 2017 and November 2017, respectively, marking the end of three years of operating system updates.
