ColorOS 15, which made its debut with the Oppo Find X8 series, introduced the O+ Connect feature that allows Oppo phones to easily share files with iPhones and iPads. Now, with the launch of the Oppo Find N5, the company is introducing O+ Connect for Mac.
At its simplest, this allows you to view, move, search and delete files on your phone from your Mac or MacBook. You can view files without copying them, e.g. looking through your recent photos. You can also use your computer to edit files and any changes will be automatically sent back to the phone.
O+ Connect for Mac
This feature works locally, you just need to have the Mac and the Find N5 connected to the same Wi-Fi network. You can manage photos, videos, notes and documents. Wireless networking is pretty zippy these days – you can move 100 photos from your phone to your computer in just 8 seconds, for example.
O+ Connect for Mac also has a remote desktop feature called Remote Mac Control. You can use Oppo Find N5’s full 8.12” inner display to view the macOS desktop or you can fold the phone at 90° – this divides the screen so that the top half shows macOS and the bottom half turns into a touchpad that supports all the same gestures as the Apple touchpads. Alternatively, the bottom half can be a keyboard.
What’s interesting is that the Remote Mac Control feature also works in split-screen mode – on stage, Oppo showed how you can drag a file off the macOS desktop and drop it into WhatsApp to share it.
Enabling the Remote Mac Control feature on the Oppo Find N5
Oppo is working on an update for O+ Connect for Mac, which will allow you to access files stored on your Mac directly from the phone’s Files app. This will allow you to skip the remote desktop connection if you just want to copy or share a file from your computer.
Windows users can have a look at Oppo Connect, which brings additional integration between Oppo smartphones and Windows PCs on top of what Microsoft has done already.
