- The App Cloner feature in Oxygen OS can now clone many more apps in Oxygen OS 14.1.
- The feature was introduced in 2017 and only supported a handful of social media and messaging apps.
- However, there was a workaround involving ADB that let you clone more apps, which is (mostly) no longer necessary.
It’s sometimes beneficial to have two or more copies of an app so you can, say, use multiple accounts for a particular messaging or social media service. While some messaging and social media services have built-in multi-account support, others do not, leaving users with no choice but to clone the app. That’s why many Android OEMs, such as OnePlus, offer an app cloning feature. The App Cloner feature in OnePlus’ Oxygen OS software, though, has been quite limited since its initial release. Fortunately, that’s changing with the next update.
With the recent release of the OnePlus Pad 2 in the US, I got the chance to check out the latest version of Oxygen OS, Oxygen OS 14.1 based on Android 14. While I was digging through the Settings app, I noticed there was a new option in the App Cloner settings page called Other apps. Tapping it opened a page with a list of my installed apps — most of them, at least — arranged in alphabetical order. At the top was a warning that read, “The following apps can be cloned, but their clones may not work properly due to adaptation issues.”