How to turn off ads on Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 128GB

Xiaomi’s current smartphones, including the popular Redmi Note 10 Pro, are famous for their price-performance ratio. However, the company’s aggressive marketing policies have introduced a host of ads into the MIUI operating system that can annoy users. Pop-ups in system applications, menu banners and folder recommendations are all designed to monetize the device, but often interfere with comfortable operation.

Users who buy a 128GB version often find that advertising content takes up space and distracts attention. Fortunately, engineers have left it to control these processes. Disabling ads does not require superuser rights or flashing the gadget, change a number of settings in the menu in a sequential manner, which will return the device to a clean interface and improve the speed of the system.

In this article, we will take a closer look at every step you need to completely eliminate intrusive marketing, touching on the MSA system service settings, the configuration of embedded applications, and personalization options, and following the instructions, you can turn your smartphone into a tool for work and entertainment without unnecessary visual noise.

Disabling the MSA system advertising service

The centerpiece of the MIUI advertising ecosystem is the MSA (MIUI System Ads) system application, which is responsible for collecting user preferences and displaying targeted banners across different sections of the interface, and without deactivating this component, other settings may not be fully effective.

To start, you need to go to the smartphone settings menu. Find the Passwords and Security section and select Data Access. In the app list that opens, find msa and turn the slider to "Off," and the system will alert you that the app will stop receiving data, and start a countdown of 10 seconds.

⚠️ Note: After the timer has expired, press the "Cancel" button. This action must be repeated. 3-5 Xiaomi system specifically complicates the process so that the user does not accidentally abandon advertising services.

Once the Cancel button is unavailable or the switch is off, you can move on to the next step, and it is important to understand that MIUI may periodically try to restore service after updates, so it is worth checking this option periodically.

After successfully disabling msa, you will notice that the number of pop-ups in standard utilities will be significantly reduced.This is a fundamental step, without which further fine-tuning may be useless.

Customization of personalization and recommendations

The second important area of optimization is data selection for personalized advertising. Android, in conjunction with MIUI, uses your actions to generate promotional offers. To limit this process, you need to refer to privacy settings.

Go to Settings, then select Passwords and Security, find Privacy and scroll down to Advertising Services, where you activate the "Disable Ad Personalization" switch, which will prevent the system from using your ad ID to select content.

Then you go back to the main settings menu and find the Password and Security section (or Special Features depending on the firmware version). You need the Data Access section, where you should also check for mab (MIUI Ads Browser) service. If it is present, the disabling algorithm is similar to the procedure with msa: turn off, wait for a timer, press Cancel several times.

• 🔒 Disabling personalization does not remove ads completely, but makes them less relevant.
• 🔄 Service mab is responsible for advertising in the browser and news feeds.
• 📱 On different versions MIUI The names of the items may differ slightly.

It is also important to check your Mi Account settings, go to your profile settings, select Privacy, and make sure that data collection to improve the user experience is offline, which will reduce the amount of telemetry sent to the manufacturer's servers.

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Use Safe Mode to check if the source of advertising is a third-party application you recently installed.

Cleaning Embedded Applications from Advertising

Even after the system services are disabled, individual Xiaomi apps can continue to display ads, including standard utilities like Explorer, Music, Video and Cleanup, each with its own settings that need to be changed manually.

Start with Explorer. Open it, click on the menu (three bars) and select Settings. Find About or Receive recommendations and turn off that feature. In the Security app (green icon with shield), click on the gear in the corner and remove the tick from Get recommendations.

The situation is similar in the standard Mi Video video player and Mi Music music player. In the settings of these applications, look for the "Receive recommendations" or "Online content" sections and deaktivirujte them. This will remove banner ads from the play interface and the main application screens.

⚠️ Note: When you update embedded applications through the GetApps store, settings may reset. It is recommended to disable automatic updates of system applications or recheck their configuration after each update.

Pay special attention to the Download app. Often this is where the junk is accumulated. In its settings, you should also find the item responsible for displaying recommended content and turn it off, which will provide a clean list of your files without any extraneous inserts.

Managing Notifications and Folders

One of the most annoying forms of advertising in the Redmi Note 10 Pro is notifications from system applications and “hot” recommendations in folders on the desktop, which create a feeling of congestion and require special attention when configuring.

To clean your desktop, open any application folder. Click on the folder name to open the edit menu. There you will see a Recommended or Carousel switch. It must be turned off. After that, icons of recommended games and applications will no longer appear at the bottom of the folder.

To remove the ads from the notification curtain, go to Settings → Notifications and Status bar. Go through the list of system applications (Security, Mi Browser, Music) and prevent them from displaying notifications unless they carry important information.

It’s also worth checking the settings of the Themes app. There’s a settings section in the user profile where you can turn off personalization and auto-update the carousel, which will make the directory more static and less intrusive.

Using DNS to Block Advertising

The most effective technical way to eliminate ads that work at the network level is to use a private DNS. This method allows you to block requests to known ad servers even before they reach your Redmi Note 10 Pro.

To implement this method, go to Settings → Connection and sharing (or just Wi-Fi). Find a Private Item DNS (Private DNS). Select the "Host Name Provider" option DNS" and enter the address of a trusted lock server, such as dns.adguard.com.

dns.adguard.com

After saving the settings, the smartphone will redirect everything DNS-This will remove ads not only in the system, but also in many applications and browsers where they are broadcast through web requests.

Importantly, this method may not work in some public Wi-Fi networks that require browser authorization, and in such cases, DNS will temporarily have to be switched to Auto mode, but for home and mobile Internet, it is the most effective solution for comprehensive protection.

Additional measures and installation of the launcher

If standard methods do not give the desired result, or you want to radically change the appearance of the interface, install a third-party launcher. Replacing the standard shell MIUI Launcher with an alternative allows you to completely get rid of branded folders with recommendations and widgets Xiaomi.

Popular options are Nova Launcher, Microsoft Launcher or Lawnchair. Once you install an app and assign it to the default desktop, the desktop will be clean. However, system applications like Security or Themes will still work in the background, so disabling msa remains a must.

• 🚀 Third-party launchers often run faster than standard.
• 🎨 Possibility of deep customization of icons and animations.
• ⚙️ Certain functions MIUI (Signs, hide applications may work differently.

Also, remember to regularly clean the cache of the browser and system applications. Accumulated temporary files may contain advertising modules that are reloaded. Use the built-in "Cleanup", but before disabling all advertising functions in it, as described above.

⚠️ Note: When installing third-party launchers from unknown sources, make sure to be safe APK-Download programs only from trusted stores, such as the Google Play Store, to avoid viruses.

The integrated use of all the described methods will allow you to achieve almost complete absence of advertising on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro. The device will work faster, and the battery will be spent more economically, as the background processes of downloading advertising content will be stopped.

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The combination of MSA disabling, private DNS setup and manual app cleaning gives 100% of the result in the fight against advertising on MIUI.

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