"The battery life is excellent, the photography capabilities are impressive, AI integration is seamless, and the software is clean and intuitive. Also: I took 500+ photos with the two best Android flagship phones of 2025 - here's the clear winner However, there are a few things about the phone that detracted from my experience with it. These issues are not the worst things, but at best, they felt like questionable decisions, and at worst, they adversely affected my ability to use the phone."
"For years, the standard method for quickly launching the camera on an Android phone has been to double-press the power button. There are some Chinese manufacturers that don't support that function, but for the most part, that's how it has been done in the US. The OnePlus 15 - and bear in mind that BBK, OnePlus's parent company, is based in China -- didn't seem to include that, or at least not by default."
"It's essential to note two key points here. First, as it stands, if you power cycle the phone with this option on, it will turn back off after a restart. OnePlus confirmed that this was a bug -- the setting should be retained. But OnePlus could not confirm what the default behavior of the switch would be once that bug was fixed."
The OnePlus 15 offers excellent battery life, strong photography capabilities, seamless AI integration, and clean, intuitive software. Certain design and software decisions reduce usability in specific areas. The traditional double-press power-button camera shortcut is not enabled by default and must be enabled in settings under Accessibility & convenience -> Power button -> Double Click the Power Button -> Camera. A bug currently causes that setting to reset after a power cycle; OnePlus confirmed the bug and said the setting should be retained but did not confirm the post-fix default behavior. Three issues were noted overall, with suggestions offered to fix two.
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