Owners of Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones often face intrusive content that appears immediately after unlocking the screen or in system applications. Developers embed advertising blocks and news feeds to monetize budget devices, but for many users this becomes a source of irritation. Timely deactivation of these features allows you to significantly speed up the interface and eliminate unnecessary information noise.
There are several major locations in the MIUI shell and the new HyperOS that broadcast similar content, most commonly Google Discover tape, InMobi’s built-in Glance tape, or proprietary Mi Video and Mi Music widgets, each requiring a separate approach to shut down completely, as they are managed by different system services.
In this article, we will explore all the available ways to clean the workspace from advertising, learn how to find hidden switches in settings, block Internet access for advertising services, and use advanced methods through ADB to thoroughly clean the system of garbage.
Disabling Glance tape on the lock screen
One of the most annoying features is Glance tape, which replaces the standard wallpaper on the lock screen and shows news articles, pictures and ads, a feature that is often activated by default when you first turn on the device or after you update the firmware. To return a static image, you need to go to the lock screen settings.
Go to Settings → Lock screen (in some versions of Wallpaper and Lock screen). Find wallpaper carousel or Glance for Mi. Inside this menu will be a switch that you need to put inactive, and then the system will return the standard wallpaper you installed earlier.
⚠️ Note: After disabling Glance may need to manually select new wallpapers, as previous ones may have been tied to this service.
In some regions of the firmware, this service may be called "Widget Tape" or "Lock screen magazine." The principle of operation remains unchanged: look for the partition associated with dynamic background change and turn it off. If the standard method does not help, you can limit the background operation of the application through the battery settings.
☑️ Checking the lock screen settings
It's worth noting that in the new versions of HyperOS, the logic of widgets has changed, so that the cards can be displayed on a locked screen by a separate system application, which you need to look for in the list of all programs, and deleting or disabling it also solves the problem.
Removing widgets and cards on the desktop
The second place where news is most likely to appear is in the home screen widgets, which often pre-installed Mi Video, Mi Music or News Feed widgets in MIUI and HyperOS, which automatically upload content from the Internet, and can take up a significant portion of the screen and consume traffic.
To remove, you just need to pinch your finger on the widget itself and select the “Delete” option or drag it to the top of the screen where the basket appears. However, if the widget is built into the system and is not deleted in the usual way, a deeper approach will be required through the application settings.
- 📱 Go to Settings. → Annexes → All applications.
- 🔍 Find the list of “Mi Videos”, “Mi Music” or “GetApps».
- 🚫 Click on “Delete” or “Disable” if deletion is not available.
Once you disable your news source system applications, widgets will stop updating or disappear from your desktop. It’s important not to confuse system services with the regular apps you use every day, so read the descriptions carefully.