How to remove the inscriptions on the photo Xiaomi: the complete guide

Xiaomi smartphone owners often face a situation where images taken are automatically tagged with text tags, such as a brand logo, a device model, a current date or even a time of shooting. For many users, such automatic captions become an annoying factor, spoiling the composition of the frame and requiring additional editing time.

Fortunately, MIUI and its modern HyperOS operating system provide flexible tools to manage these parameters. You can completely disable the generation of watermarks or configure their display to brand your work. In this article, we will discuss in detail all ways to remove the inscriptions on the Xiaomi photo using standard system tools and third-party applications.

Understanding how the image tagging system works will help you avoid mistakes in the future. Often users confuse the settings of the camera itself with the display parameters in the gallery, which leads to confusion. We systematize the knowledge about the Camera module and tell you exactly where the right switches for your model are hiding.

Disabling watermarks through camera settings

The most common type of label is the brand logo "Shot on Xiaomi" or the name of a particular smartphone model. These tags are added programmatically at the time of creating an image file. To remove them, you need to change the settings of the main shooting module. Open the Camera app and find the settings menu, usually represented by three horizontal bars or gears in the upper corner of the screen.

In the list that opens, look for the watermark item, and it can be called "Watermark," "Device Model," or "Watermark Settings," and it's where the master switch that puts text on the final file is located. Importantly, changing this option will only affect new images; the old photos will remain unchanged.

Modern versions of MIUI shells allow you to flexibly customize the contents of the watermark. You can choose to display only the phone model, add the current date, or even specify a specific device model from a list (useful for jokes or creating a certain image).

It's worth noting that in some shooting scenarios, such as Portrait or Night, the watermark settings may behave differently. The system may ignore the general settings to preserve artistic design or technical data. So always check the result after the configuration change by taking a test shot.

Removal of date and time stamp

Unlike the watermark of the model, the date and time stamp is often perceived by users as a more intrusive element. It can be turned on by default in some regional versions of the firmware or activated accidentally.

Go to the camera settings and find the section that displays timestamps. In some MIUI builds, this item is separately printed and called "Timetamp" or "Date and time." Disabling this feature ensures that your future photos will not have a digital impression of the information about the time of shooting.

⚠️ Note: Disabling the date stamp in the camera settings does not delete this information from the file. EXIF-metadata and are always available for viewing in the file or gallery properties, even if they are not visually present in the image.

If you want the date to be displayed only on selected images, and not on all in a row, consider an alternative: it is better to leave the function off globally, and if necessary add a stamp after the fact through the built-in editor, this will give you full control over each particular frame without the risk of spoiling the series of photos with unnecessary text.

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Use Pro mode for manual camera control – in this mode, watermarks are often not automatically put, which gives a clean source.

Configure the display of information in the Gallery

Often users confuse the labels on the image with the information that the Gallery app displays on top of the photo when you view it. When you open the picture, you can see the date, time, location and exposure settings. This is not part of the picture, but the interface of the viewer program.

To hide this data, just click on the screen in viewing the photo. One tap usually hides all the menus and information blocks, showing the image in full. If the information is on the screen constantly, check the settings of the Gallery application itself. In some cases, the Detailed View mode or similar function can be activated there.

You also need to distinguish between visual frames and captions that are added when you create collages or albums. If you're creating a collection of photos, the system can automatically add titles, and you can remove them in the editing mode of the album by selecting the "No frame" option or by manually removing text blocks before saving the project.

Using an editor to remove existing labels

If the labels are already present in the photos, simply switching the camera settings won’t help. You will need to remove text from the image. Xiaomi’s built-in editor offers powerful retouching tools, such as the “Swallow” or “Retouch” feature.

Open a photo in a gallery, click "Change" and select a retouch tool. Paint over the text carefully. AI algorithms will analyze the surrounding pixels and fill the allocated area with a suitable background. This method is effective for removing inscriptions on a homogeneous background, such as on the sky or a wall.

For complex cases where text crosses important image details, built-in tools may not be enough, and in such a situation, it is recommended to use specialized applications such as TouchRetouch or Snapseed with the function "Pinpoint", which allow you to work more accurately with small elements, preserving the structure of the image.

⚠️ Note: When using retouch tools, always save the edited photo as a new copy. The original file with the inscription should not be overwritten, so you can return to the source in case of unsuccessful editing.

Third-party applications for batch processing

When it comes to tens or hundreds of watermarked photos, manual processing becomes inefficient, and applications for batch removal or image size resizing (framework) come to the rescue, and if the inscription is in one place (like the bottom corner), it is easiest to crop the photo.

Applications like Batch Crop or file managers allow you to apply the same framing to the entire folder of images, so you set a text-free area, and the program automatically crops all the images you select, and it's a quick way to remove the labels if they're located at the edges of the frame.

There are also specialized neural-based watermark removal tools that analyze images and try to reconstruct the background below the text, the quality of the result depends on the complexity of the background and the transparency of the inscription itself, and for critical photos, it is better to use professional graphic editors on a PC.

Removing metadata (EXIF) for complete purity

Although visually not visible, technical information (phone model, date, GPS-In order to be completely anonymous or to prepare a photo for publication in some social networks, this information is deleted, this will not remove the visible text if it is already sewn into the picture, but will clear the hidden data.

Use metadata editors or built-in Clear Data when sending files. MIUI has a "Send No Location Data" option when sending via Mi Drop or some instant messengers. You can use applications like Exif Editor to clean up deep.

Remember that removal EXIF-However, if you are a professional photographer, this data can be important for proving authorship or analyzing the parameters of the shooting.

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Complete cleaning of photos from traces of processing includes not only visual removal of text, but also verification of the image. EXIF-data on the presence of geolocation and device model.

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