Intelligent Search

Why It Exists

Traditional search requires exact keywords and only searches one app at a time. Intelligent Search provides a unified, semantic search experience that finds relevant content regardless of where it is stored.

How It Works

Intelligent Search uses OnePlus AI's natural language processing models to search for content across the device, apps, and cloud services. Unlike traditional keyword search, it understands semantic meaning and context, allowing users to find content even without remembering exact words. It can search photos, notes, messages, contacts, and app-specific content.

Everyday Use Cases

• Find a photo by describing its content
• Search across all notes and messages at once
• Locate a contact by their relationship or context
• Find a document by its semantic content
• Search for information across cloud and local storage

User Workflow

• Open Intelligent Search from the home screen or app drawer
• Type or speak a search query in natural language
• AI interprets the semantic meaning
• Search across local and cloud sources
• Results are displayed with relevance ranking
• Tap a result to open the source

AI Processing Flow

On-device NPU processes natural language queries using semantic embedding models. Local content is indexed on-device; cloud results use secure, encrypted search. Privacy is maintained through local processing of sensitive queries.

Inputs / Outputs

Inputs:

• Natural language search query
• Voice input
• Index of local content
• Encrypted cloud search tokens

Outputs:

• Search results with relevance ranking
• Content previews
• Direct links to source content
• Semantic matches
• Suggested related searches

Known Limitations

• Requires OnePlus devices with NPU
• Indexing large content libraries may take time
• Some cloud features require internet
• Limited to supported apps and content types

Unsupported Scenarios

• Does not search content from apps that opt out of search integration
• May not find content in unsupported file formats

Performance Notes

Local search results appear in under 2 seconds. Cloud search adds 2-4 seconds. Indexing runs during idle periods with minimal battery impact.

Available On

Shows where this feature is available and how its AI processing works on each platform. Availability may vary by device.

Research Status

Confidence and verification reflect how complete documentation is. Fields may show Not assessed or Not yet verified while research is ongoing - this flags gaps, not product deficiencies.

Research Notes

Source: OnePlus OxygenOS AI documentation. Available on OnePlus 15, 13, 13R, and 13s devices running OxygenOS 15+.

Details

Capability Mapping

This feature maps to canonical capability family: Visual Understanding.

Canonical capability: Visual Understanding.

• Visual Understanding - Interprets what is in view and provides contextual understanding or actions.

Grounded in 1 device(s) on OnePlus AI.