Activating OnePlus 5 Developer Options - Instructions

There is a hidden area on the OnePlus 5 within the Android menu: the so-called developer options. These are not visible from the factory and must first be unlocked and made visible by the user.

If you still do not know how this works, then we would like to describe this to you in more detail:

Unlock developer options - OnePlus 5

  1. Open the settings and scroll down to the menu item "About the phone"
  2. Here you will find now an entry with "Buildnumber" - Tap this entry 7 times and a message appears that the developer options are now unlocked.
  3. The developer options are added to the settings. Here you can now open them and make the settings that you need especially as a developer.

You now know how to quickly and easily activate the developer mode on the OnePlus 5. How to use this, for example, to optimize the USB connection to a PC, this is explained in the following article.

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