When you think of a OnePlus phone, what do you think of? Well, you probably think of its red charging cable, its black sandstone finish, and, for a while, its Hasselblad-tuned camera setup. One thing you also probably thought of for a long, long time was its iconic alert slider — a three-stop switch to go from ring to silent without ever unlocking your phone.
Then, that alert slider disappeared. No, not on the OnePlus 15 (yet), but on the OnePlus 10T. The change made exactly nobody happy, so OnePlus brought its slider back. Now, though, it’s gone again, this time from the OnePlus 15, making it a much more noticeable problem. In its place sits the Plus Key, a multifunctional button with a new AI-powered journal at its disposal, and I don’t like it one bit.