OnePlus Buds could get an AI call-summary feature, beating the iPhone and AirPods to the punch

Triple-tap to get AI summaries of your phone calls

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With manufacturers happily shoving AI into everything, we’re starting to see more devices offering features such as automatic summaries of text and audio – so for exampleiOS 18will bring AI-powered call transcription and summaries to theiPhone 16later this year, and some of thebest Android phoneswill soon be packing similar summarization features. And now a new leak suggest that the feature could be supported by OnePlus' earbuds too, having already been added as a feature to its phones in China (but not elsewhere yet).

The news comes viaAndroid Authority, whose investigation into the code of the OnePlus wireless earbuds app has revealed evidence that strongly suggests AI call summaries are coming to the expected future OnePlus Buds Pro 3 model, and possibly more OnePlus models too. The feature would enable you to start or stop a call summary by triple-tapping the stem of your earbuds.

When will you get the OnePlus Buds' new AI features?

That’s a very good question, because OnePlus’s existing AI call assistant feature, which is what the earbuds really control, rather than having the tech built into the buds themselves, hasn’t been launched outside China yet.

As for the OnePlus Buds Pro 3, they haven’t been launched either: at the moment the most recent earbuds from the firm are theOnePlus Buds 3. A successor to theOnePlus Buds Pro 2is widely anticipated but as yet hasn’t been confirmed, so as yet we have no indication as to when the earbuds-controlled AI feature will be available. We also don’t know which other OnePlus Buds, if any, will be able to summon the summaries.

Although this feature will be exclusive to OnePlus phones it’s not the only option on Android:Googleis reportedlybringing the very similar Call Notes to its Pixel 9 phonesin the next two weeks, andSamsung has its own AI transcription featuresin Samsung Notes for Galaxy phones. That latter option isn’t quite as seamless as Call Notes – Samsung’s transcriptions need you to provide a recording rather than creating one itself – but bringing that to live calls is surely just a matter of time.

We don’t ifApple’s version of this tech can be activated via AirPods, but withApple Intelligence seemingly delayed until after the launch of iOS 18, OnePlus might be the first to offer the convenience of earbuds-activated AI note taking in calls.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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