How to remove the logo from the photo on Xiaomi: methods of removal

Owners of Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones often face an intrusive problem that arises immediately after buying a new device, the camera automatically adds a watermark with the name of the phone model to the pictures, which can spoil the aesthetic of the shot, especially when you plan to send a photo to print or place it in a professional portfolio.

Fortunately, the developers of the MIUI interface have provided the option to disable this feature, but finding the switch is difficult. It is often hidden in non-obvious menus or hidden behind additional settings buttons. In this article, we will discuss in detail how to remove the logo from the photo on Xiaomi so that your pictures look clean and professional.

You'll learn where the slider is in the standard application, how to act if the settings are lost, and what alternative methods exist to remove the stamp already applied. We'll look at the nuances for different versions of the firmware, as the location of the elements may differ.

Disabling the watermark in the standard Camera app

The easiest and most effective way to prevent a logo from appearing is to disable adding it when you're shooting, so you don't need third-party software or root rights, just go to the settings of a regular app, and it usually takes only a few seconds to get to the right option, if you know where to look.

Open the Camera app and find the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner for the menu. Click on them to reveal the list of actions available, and select Settings, which is where all the parameters that affect the final image, including quality, aspect ratio and watermarks, are hidden.

In the options list that opens, you need to find the Watermark section, which can be located at the top of the list or in a group of additional settings, and inside you will see a switch that is often activated by default, put it inactive, and the logo will stop appearing in new pictures.

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On some versions of MIUI, the watermark switch is located right in the settings widget with the camera open, without having to go to the full settings menu.

It's worth noting that new versions of the HyperOS shell and recent MIUI updates have changed the logic of watermarking, so the system can automatically add the model name only in certain shooting modes, ignoring the general settings, so if the standard method didn't work, check each mode separately.

Settings of watermarks in different shooting modes

Modern Xiaomi smartphones have many camera modes, and the watermark settings can be individual for each of them. Often users turn off the logo in Photo mode, but forget to do the same in Portrait or Night mode, wondering why the stamp keeps appearing.

To ensure that the logo is removed, you need to check the settings for each mode you use. Switch to Portrait mode, for example, then go back to the settings menu (three stripes) and make sure that the watermark tick is removed. Repeat the procedure for the video, night and pro modes.

The table below shows the main modes where this option is most common, and the likely behavior of the system:

Note that in some shooting scenarios, such as zoom or macro mode, settings can be inherited from the main Photo mode. However, you should not rely on this - manually checking each item will take less than a minute, but save time for editing in the future.

The problem of stamping time and date in photos

Sometimes people confuse the phone model logo with a date and time stamp, which can also be displayed on the pictures. These are two different functions, and you need to turn them off independently. If your photos show a shooting date, the algorithm for finding a solution will be similar, but you need to look for a different slider.

In the camera settings menu, find Time stamp, which is usually located directly under the model watermark setting, and activating this setting causes the current date and time to be printed in the bottom corner of each frame, which looks like it is on older digital cameras.

⚠️ Warning: Unlike the model logo, the time stamp is often impossible to change or move to another location in the frame. If you do not need it, you should definitely turn it off in the settings, as it will be more difficult to remove it from the finished photo than the logo.

Remember that even when you turn off the image, metadata (EXIF) still retains the time of the shot, and you can always see when the image was taken by opening the file properties in the gallery or explorer, even if nothing is written visually in the image.

Removal of the logo from already finished photos

If you forgot to turn off the watermark in advance and you already have an archive of photos with the Xiaomi logo, you should not despair. There are effective ways to remove an unwanted item directly on your smartphone. You do not need to contact your computer for this, the built-in MIUI tools do a good job.

Open the photo you want in the Gallery app and click Change (usually a pencil or slider icon) and in the lower tool menu, look for Retouch or Tools, where the Lasto or Remove Object function is located. This tool uses artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze surrounding pixels.

Carefully color over the area with the logo. The system automatically defines the boundaries of the object and replaces it with the texture of the background. For simple backgrounds, such as the sky or the wall, the result is almost perfect. For complex textures, it can take several attempts.

For more complex cases where the standard eraser is doing poorly, you can use third-party apps from Google Play, such as Snapseed or TouchRetouch. The Snapseed app, for example, has a great tool called Point, which works on the principle of pixel cloning and often gives a better result in detailed images.

Third-party applications for editing and removing objects

If the built-in features of the smartphone don't work, specialized applications come to the rescue, and they offer more advanced algorithms to remove objects, allowing you to get rid of logos, extra people in the frame or matrix defects.

One of the leaders in this niche is the TouchRetouch app. It's paid, but it offers a professional level of processing. You just pick the Lastik or Lasso tool, you circle the Xiaomi logo, and the app instantly replaces it with background content, given perspective and lighting.

A free alternative is Google's Snapseed app, which, despite being free of advertising and free, has a powerful toolkit: Points allow you to remove small objects, and Cloning allows you to manually take a texture sample from a clean area of a photo and paint over your logo.

⚠️ Note: When using online services to remove watermarks, do not upload or confidential photos. Your data may be stored on the servers of the service developers.

There are also watermark removal applications, such as Remove & Add Watermark, which often use cloud-based processing algorithms, which can achieve good results even in complex backgrounds, but require a stable Internet connection.

Reset camera settings and eliminate software errors

There are times when the watermark slider doesn't work: you turn it off, but it reappears in new photos, which may indicate a software failure in the camera app or damage to the configuration files, in which case resetting the camera settings to the factory will help.

To do this, go to Settings on the smartphone itself (not the cameras), find the Apps section and select All Apps. Find Camera, click on it and select Clear → Reset (or Clear All Data) to return the app to its original state.

Once reset, reopen the camera, check the watermark settings and turn it off. This usually solves the floating problem, and if that doesn't work, it may be a specific version of MIUI firmware that's the problem, and it's worth waiting for the system update.

In rare cases, the logo can stick to the cache, and the cache of the camera app is cleaned in the app's storage menu, a safe operation that won't delete your personal photos, but can fix interface display errors.

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Resetting the camera app data is a radical, but often the only way to fix bugs when the watermark settings are not saved.

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