New Delhi, May 9 -- After announcing the removal of the alert slider on its phones earlier this year, OnePlus has officially confirmed that the OnePlus 13s will be the first phone in India to debut without the iconic feature, and will instead feature a 'Plus' button that can be customised for various tasks.

Notably, the alert slider was a physical metal slider that was present on almost all OnePlus devices except the Nord series and allowed users to quickly turn their phones to silent, ring or vibrate.

With the new Plus key, OnePlus says that users will be able to change sound profiles, click screenshots, record audio, turn on flash and take screenshots, among other things. Remember that Apple first introduced a similar action button wi...