OPPO's ColorOS 15 is now official, and it's heavily inspired by iOS

OPPO has announced its Android 15-based ColorOS 15 skin during an event in China. The company is making some notable UI changes this time around. Something you’ll see a lot of here is… iOS, kind of. This version of ColorOS seems to be heavily inspired by iOS.

OPPO announced ColorOS 15 with new animations, and plenty of iOS inspiration

OPPO did say that it paid extra attention to animations. The ‘Aurora and Tidal Engine’ are here to boost animations, and how they perform. It allows animations to run in parallel, which should ensure a smoother experience when switching between apps.

‘’Motino Effects’, on the other hand, improve the animations in applications. That goes for both OPPO apps and third-party apps as well. OPPO also managed to improve the speed of app installations by 26%, while app responsiveness has been boosted by around 18%.

ColorOS 15 now also comes with a separate notification shade and Quick Settings. Samsung did it with One UI 7, and iOS has been doing it for a while. We’re not sure if you can change that in settings, but chances are you can.

AI will be utilize for image processing and editing, content summarization, and more

AI will be more utilized in ColorOS 15 too. You’ll use it for image processing and editing. For actions such as blur removal, image upscaling, reflection removal, and more. AI will also be able to summarize content for you, and so on.

If you check out the company’s ColorOS 15 promo video below, you’ll see the new version of ColorOS for yourself. You’ll be able to see a ton of influence iOS had on this version.

OPPO created a Dynamic Island clone here, and a lock screen that is heavily customizable, and yet it does resemble what iOS did. You’ll be able to store multiople lock screen configurations, and separate pieces of the wallpaper (place your image over the clock, for example). OPPO’s AI assitant has a similar interface to Siri, which is another similarity here.

The rollout will start next month

ColorOS 15 will start rolling out to OPPO’s smartphones next month, in November. The rollout will start in China, but global models will also be getting this update between November and March. The OPPO Find X8 series will come pre-installed with ColorOS 15. They’re coming on October 24.

As a reminder, OxygenOS 15 will become official on October 24. As many of you know, OxygenOS and ColorOS are very similar these, so chances are we’ll get a similar UI.