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It has been some time since the release of the new generation of ColorOS 13. I believe that many users of OPPO phones began to experience it early on the public beta version, so that they can directly feel the changes in the dynamic effect and vision of ColorOS 13. We also upgraded an OPPO Find X5 Pro to ColorOS 13 as soon as possible. This article will report the changes and highlights of this system update from the author's point of view.

Design Overview

ColorOS 13 this aquatic design, water into gaseous water, liquid water and solid water three states, with aquatic dynamic effects and polymorphic texture and other visual and graphical visual language, showing a natural smart, dynamic changes, ideas and ideas are very interesting.

At the same time, the theme color of ColorOS 13 has also changed from the previous green to "Sunrise Blue" and "Sunset Orange". Blue and orange are very classic contrasting colors in colorology, saturated and pure. Blue represents serenity, symbolizing the sky and sea; orange represents energy, symbolizing enthusiasm and joy. The combination of the two will produce a sense of eye-catching, cool and strong contrast, which is easier to be recognized, so ColorOS 13 also presents a stronger visual tension and personality expression. The picture part of this experience will also use these two colors to give you a more sense of substitution.

Before the introduction, let's give us some information about this version. As can be seen in the system setup, ColorOS 13 is a public beta version with the suffix of C.27, based on Android 13. The following features and actual experience shall prevail.

Vision and interaction

Let's start with the information screen display. ColorOS 13 has added the scene information function this time, which can present take-out, taxi-hailing, songs and other information to users in the first place through transparent cards. Not only the information is updated in real time, when watching the music information, the sitcom card will also pop up, and users can easily cut songs, play / pause, add to the collection, and recommend four pieces of music with similar styles.

The information screen features already installed in the old version, such as time, will also be adjusted to the overall layout according to the situational card function to ensure visual priority and balance. In addition, ColorOS 13 also adds some interesting dynamic lock screen themes, such as the lock screen with the theme of the impact of global climate change on the wildlife environment in Card 4 above, which you can experience on your own.

Then came to the lock screen, ColorOS 13 continued the layout of ColorsOS 12, by default, the lower left corner of the screen is Lexi lock screen entrance, the lower right corner is the shortcut camera entrance, slide the two icons inward, there will be circular expansion animation, if you close the lower left corner of the Lexi lock screen, there is no icon, time and date can still choose vertical version and horizontal version two styles.

In terms of lock screen music, the system style is more simple than before, the text in the music card part is thicker, and the visual contrast is stronger, removing the small button in the upper right corner of the music card that clicks to display more notification cards, and removes the restriction on the selection of sound sources in the upper right corner of the card after unlocking encryption methods such as setting lock screen passwords. Of course, the Lezao lock screen is not completely useless, this lock screen rotation wallpaper function is good.

ColorOS 13 has more thoroughly moved towards the card style of rounded rectangle, such as UI in the interface of system settings menu, file management, application store, etc., all adjusted to card style, making use of the contrast color between the card and the background, large card spacing and partial shadow effect, increasing the visual priority, order and space of the card, and in some places the card will distinguish the functional level by color. All in all, the card makes ColorOS 13 more visually unified and rounded.

The beginnings of the control center of ColorOS 13 seem to be just UI changes, but there are a lot of small details. First, OPPO makes Wi-Fi, mobile data, and player cards, which are most commonly used for priority decision, into large rounded rectangular cards for easy click and interaction. When you drop down for the first time, the shortcut button is displayed with the notification card, and the visual distinction between the two is more obvious. The small shortcut button retains a column and leaves a separate space for the brightness adjustment slider, but the automatic brightness switch is not restored. The top date and time information is arranged horizontally and redisplayed in fine words, with only one setting button on the right side of the top.

Once again, the drop-down will display the complete control center, and the message card will sink and move off the screen. At this time, the time information word will be bold again, and the date will start on a new line. On the right, there will be more buttons for the user to select and currently running the service, and more traffic information below. The small shortcut button expands to display in a 4x3 layout, with larger spacing and support for left and right page flipping. Once again, the notification card will be displayed on the full screen, and the status bar space will be set aside at the top. It can be seen that the notification collection is more efficient than that of ColorOS 12 ColorOS 13.

Second-level menu page, feel efficient but not completely efficient. For example, by clicking the button behind the Wi-Fi switch, you can switch the saved Wi-Fi directly in the pop-up card, but to connect the new Wi-Fi, you still need to jump to the settings and enter the password; click on the media to play the card, and you can have more interactions directly, all of which can be done at the card level without having to jump again. The same is true for switching users and new users, and OPPO is expected to improve on these details in the future.

In the full-screen display of the content of the horizontal screen state, ColorOS 13 is also adapted, you can see that the left side shows a shortcut button, swiping left and right to switch; the right side shows a notification card, sliding up and down to turn the page; it does not interfere with each other, and the screen space utilization is higher.

ColorOS 13 has added a dynamic wallpaper based on aquatic design called blooming wallpaper. As its name implies, it is a growing and artistic "aquatic tree" that appears in bloom on the user's desktop. Before choosing this wallpaper, you need to set the screen usage time target every day, and the color and background of the "aquatic tree" change according to the theme color of the commonly used App. With the increase of the use time of a single App, the branches and leaves continue to grow, but once it exceeds the set screen use time, the tree will become mineralized to remind the user to rest.

ColorOS 13 also optimizes and redraws the icons of the previous version of the noise reduction concept and translucent acrylic texture design. The overall style of the icons is more concise and still retains the translucent texture, but the layers between the icons and the outer frame substrate are increased through shadows and acrylic designs. At the same time, the icons are brighter in color, have higher contrast and look more conspicuous. Of course, OPPO also aims at the actual situation of color blind and weak users, reducing the visual burden caused by the repetition of some colors. Do you think the new icon looks good?

The function of large folders is no stranger to everyone, and this time ColorOS 13 has also been added, which is to be congratulated. In the design, OPPO uses a very standard translucent plus blurred style, simple restraint, no extra elements. The space between the icons in the folder is small, and the outer distance between the icon and the folder is large. Large folders in dark mode, the overall color becomes darker, but the folder name is still white, so it is not suitable to use high-brightness light-colored wallpaper to do desktop pictures.

OPPO still pays more attention to the sense of order on typesetting, large folders are not only aligned with each other, and the upper and lower edges of small folders and desktop icons are aligned with each other, the folder name application name is also aligned, but the left and right spacing and upper and lower spacing of large folders are not the same, even so the overall visual effect is still very neat. In terms of interaction, it can be divided into the following three situations according to the number of App in the folder:

When the number of icons is more than 9, the large folder can slide left and right to turn the page and enter the following application. There is no need to open the secondary folder menu. During the sliding process, the name at the bottom will become a small page turning icon. For a period of time, the icon will automatically slide left to the front page of the folder.

When the number of icons is equal to 9, you can enter directly by clicking the corresponding App icon. In the second and first cases, if you need to enter the secondary folder menu, click the folder name.

When the number of icons is less than 9, click the space in the folder to enter the secondary folder menu. In addition, long press large folders and small folders, you can switch sizes with each other.

The responsive layout of ColorOS 13 evolved to 2.0. for devices with different screen sizes outside ordinary straight phones, such as tablets and folding screens, multiple UI interfaces and layouts are adapted for the same application, making full use of the display space of large screen devices, rather than simply rudely stretching and magnifying the mobile phone interface, so that users feel more comfortable in vision and operation, with strong versatility and high adaptive degree. And the specific UI interaction details will also be different, such as "confirm" pop-up window and other controls, will be adjusted according to the position of the corresponding function button, the operation will be more handy.

In the negative screen processing, ColorOS 13 (left 2) compared to ColorOS 12 (left 1) the biggest change is to use a more rounded card shape and more colorful card style, while the card pattern to further improve visual recognition, or I mentioned earlier to change the typesetting, improve contrast, adjust word weight and more simple eye-catching patterns. The details have also been adjusted according to different cards. I'll give you a few examples.

The style of the small album component is divided into two by the previous one, corresponding to the selected picture and the optional picture respectively; the small power component directly represents the battery charge with the green filling degree; the express message displays different colors according to different states. On the other hand, the custom card in the setting removes the hot spot information turned on by default and the selected recommended switch, leaving only the top 10 quick function switches (second from right). As a result, the big information component of the browser has finally been removed (right one), and the negative screen is refreshed all of a sudden.

Aquatic dynamic effect is a new and independent attempt for UI design on ColorOS 13. In some App pages and animations of using scenes, OPPO has separately designed a set of pseudo-object light and shadow style animation based on the concept of solid water. For example, the dial in the clock reflects the change of time of day through the change of shadow position, and the moon diffuses light when combined with dark mode at night.

When the one-button optimization icon in Mobile Manager is pressed, it will show a sense of flexibility like water droplets fluctuating and self-binding in the tension; plug in the data cable, the charging sign will absorb the surrounding "electric energy particles", and the effect of infiltration and absorption will be as silent as water.

The expression of this kind of solid water is bolder, after all, it is completely different from the style of other pages, and it is not sure whether OPPO can continue to improve this animation style in the future, making it run through and plump into the dynamic effect design of the whole system UI, but the overall small and fresh feeling, or let users occasionally use these App, see these animations, slightly decompression and relaxation.

Function and application

In fact, this feature is already installed in ColorOS 12, but it's worth mentioning. OPPO's own video and music App can be set up to turn off the online digital content service and become a purely local player, which is really good. Now the mobile space is occupied by App, using mobile phones to play local videos and music has become a minority demand, but this way of digital content consumption is more pure. If you still want to stay away from the interference of mobile content, you can also turn on the new preinstalled meditation mode, App, which can kill two birds with one stone. However, some boutique App on ColorOS is also leaving us, such as O Relax and OPPO Lab, which makes people sad.

ColorOS 13 has also made some minor adjustments in terms of privacy permissions. For example, every time you apply for permissions, the system will intelligently judge reasonable permissions according to the nature of App, and give suggestions to reduce users' authorization of unnecessary permissions, and will not affect users' normal use of App.

When we usually take screenshots in social App, when we click on the screenshots for editing, the system will intelligently screen out avatars and nicknames according to the screenshots. Just click auto-typing to hide this information and protect our privacy. The permissions and privacy functions in the system menu are also classified in more detail, which is more convenient to find the corresponding functions.

The improvement of various small functions of ColorOS 13 also brings some surprises from time to time. For example, after turning on the camera and shooting objects, screens or other things with text, click the small button in the lower right corner of the shooting interface, the text information in the picture will be automatically selected, and press and hold the text to copy, share, search and other operations. and encounter a phone number to click can dial, address information can also automatically jump to the map.

ColorOS 12 already has the intelligent sidebar scene function has also been upgraded, when watching video now support listening to songs, reading articles support more App, network video conference can even intelligent screenshot, voice conference content into text, after the meeting quickly generate pictorial minutes and so on, I believe that with the continuous layout and update of the OPPO, intelligent sidebar, photo recognition functions will become more and more useful.

In addition to these very specific visual and functional changes, ColorOS 13 actually has two "slightly metaphysical" tricks, which are not easy to show in the article, so I'll just share the experience and test results. The first big trick is Quantum Animation engine 4.0, which is very easy to understand, that is, system interactive animation.

ColorOS 13 works very hard in this respect, and the excessive naturalness of animation is much better than that of 12, both in terms of animation details and the number of animations. I believe no one will refute this point if you are already using the public beta version. Its core change is to adjust the previous linear animation to non-linear animation, which is more natural in vision and feel, more in line with people's intuition, which must be praised.

The second big trick is the ColorOS supercomputing platform, which, according to OPPO, can achieve a balance between high performance and low power consumption with the help of computing power and chip scheduling. Putting aside the official data, the actual experience is more intuitive and intuitive to improve the backstage and endurance. With 20 apps open in the background, after playing for 15 minutes, only five apps were killed and needed to be reloaded, including another mobile game.

In terms of battery life, we did two rounds of tests, that is, the Find X5 Pro ran out of power to 1% under ColorOS 12 and ColorOS 13, respectively, and the results showed that the battery life of ColorOS 13 was 20 minutes higher than that of 12.

The summary is limited to space, the upgrading point introduced by the above water is not all of this ColorOS 13, but the bright part of it. I am very impressed by the smooth and natural interactive animation, fashionable and distinct color system, more organized UI and many intimate function updates. Overall experience, I feel that ColorOS 13 on the basis of refreshing, fluency and practicality has also improved several levels, but also more intimate.

Users can feel whether a system is done attentively or not. After an in-depth experience of ColorOS 13, Shuishui can responsibly say that this version of the system is well worth upgrading.

Finally, put on the official ColorOS 13 public beta upgrade plan, partners with OPPO models can pay attention, the first time to upgrade the OPPO equipment system, I believe will not be disappointed.

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