OnePlus is taking a big step toward offering truly personal AI on your phone, and it’s using Google Gemini to get there. The company has confirmed a new integration for its existing Mind Space feature, turning your saved notes, thoughts, and personal context into something an AI can actually understand and use.
If this works as promised, it could make your OnePlus feel even more like a digital companion, building on the already brilliant idea of Mind Space.
Speaking to TechRadar Phones Editor Axel Metz, OnePlus Europe CMO Celina Shi shared an exclusive statement that outlines what the company is building with Google. Shi says the goal is simple: make AI genuinely personal by connecting Google’s flagship model directly to whatever you store in Mind Space.
"To maximize the potential of Mind Space, we have also partnered with Google to deeply integrate Mind Space with Google Gemini. This powerful integration allows Gemini to access information you’ve saved to Mind Space and combine it with its advanced LLM and real-time internet access, making it the industry’s first personalized AI with Gemini.
As someone who loves the idea of Mind Space – an AI-powered storage shelf, triggered by the Plus Key, where you can contextually store any information on your device – this new Google integration is incredibly exciting.
Judging by Shi's comments, Gemini will be able to use your personal data inside Mind Space to answer questions, help plan things, and automate tasks based on your context, something most AI assistants today still struggle with.
What is Mind Space trying to do?
Mind Space is OnePlus’ way of giving users a home for the stuff floating around their heads. Think tasks, goals, reminders, and notes – you can save what you care about, and instead of letting it vanish into an app you forget about, the phone should be able to do something meaningful with it.
With Gemini in the mix, the OnePlus 15 with OxygenOS 16 could understand that you want to plan a birthday, finish a house project, or finally book a city break. It could help you research, draft messages, build lists, and handle details automatically. That’s the promise. It’s a big shift from AI that reacts to commands to AI that works from context.
Whether that’s exciting or invasive depends on how much you trust Google and OnePlus with your data. But it’s also where the industry is heading. AI makes much more sense when it knows exactly who you are, and the more info you give it, the better it gets.
OnePlus' AI promise
OxygenOS 16 is OnePlus’ next big software push, and the company says it’s trying to move AI beyond novelty.
The software update will debut on the OnePlus 15 and is built around a philosophy OnePlus calls “Intelligently Yours.” The idea is that AI should adapt to you and not the other way around.
The company says this is meant to make daily life easier, unlock creativity, help you feel more organized, and keep everything secure. All that without slowing the phone down.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because every phone brand is now saying something similar. But the Gemini connection is genuinely interesting. Samsung leans on Google too, but OnePlus claims this is the first time Gemini has been wired directly into a personal storage system like Mind Space.
OnePlus partnering closely with Google makes sense. It doesn’t have the resources to build its own foundation model, but the company does know how to make features feel fast and lightweight, something that’s been its identity for a decade.
We’ll have to see how Mind Space and Gemini work together in practice. But this is the most ambitious sign yet that OnePlus wants a seat at the table in the next wave of smartphone AI. If it pulls it off, your OnePlus might soon feel more like a brain extension than a screen.
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