How to completely or selectively disable notifications on Xiaomi: 7 working ways

Notifications on Xiaomi smartphones can be a real headache: constant alerts from messengers, banner ads from MIUI, sounds from games and social networks distract from work and personal time. Especially annoying when the phone vibrates every 5 minutes and the screen lights up from unnecessary push notifications. In this article, we will examine all possible ways to turn off notifications on Xiaomi – from complete “silence” to fine-tuning for individual applications.

It's important to understand that MIUI has its own features, such as settings for system notifications, banner ads, and even pop-ups that aren't always obvious to the user, and we'll look at solutions for all firmware versions, from MIUI 12 to the current MIUI 15, and take into account the features of Redmi, POCO, and Mi.

If you're tired of constantly "picking" your phone or want to customize notifications to suit your needs, read on.

1. Completely disable all notifications on Xiaomi

If you need to completely shut down your phone — for example, at an important meeting or while you sleep — use Do Not Disturb mode, which is the fastest way to turn off all sounds, vibrations and pop-ups.

How to turn on:

1. Open the Settings. → Sound and vibration.
2. Select the item Do not disturb.
3. Activate the switch at the top of the screen.
4. Set a schedule (by time) or exceptions (for example, for an alarm clock).

⚠️ Note: Do Not Disturb by default even calls are blocked. To leave the ability to receive calls from important contacts, add them to the Exceptions. → Calls and select Only selected contacts.

You can also quickly turn on “Do Not Disturb” through the notification panel:

• 📱 Swipe down from the top edge of the screen to open the curtain.
• 🔕 Find the Do Not Disturb icon (usually next to the plane mode).
• 🔘 Press it once to activate it.

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If the “Do Not Disturb” icon is not in the curtain, add it: swipe left on the Quick Settings panel → click “Edit” → drag the icon to the active area.

2. Disable notifications for individual applications

Users are often annoyed by notifications from specific programs: VKontakte, TikTok, games or banking applications. In MIUI, you can flexibly configure alerts for each application separately - for example, leave the sound for WhatsApp, but remove the vibration for Instagram.

Instructions:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Select the appropriate app (such as Facebook).
3. Press Notifications.
4. Turn off the switch Allow notifications or configure individual settings: 🔔 Sound - disables the soundtrack. 📳 Pop-ups – removes pop-ups on the lock screen. 🔄 Icons – hides the numbers of unread messages.

⚠️ Note: Some applications (such as AliExpress or Wildberries) ignore system settings and continue to send notifications, in which case you will have to turn off alerts directly in the application itself (usually in the Settings section). → Notifications»).

3. How to Remove Advertising Notices from MIUI

One of the most annoying things about MIUI is the ad notifications from the system itself, which can come in the form of banners in the curtain, pop-ups, or even in the settings menu, and fortunately, you can turn them off.

Methods of removing advertising:

🔹 Additional: If the ads continue to appear, check your Mi Account settings:

• 🌐 Open the Settings. → Xiaomi account → Mi Account.
• 📋 Go to privacy. → Personalized recommendations.
• 🔘 Turn off all switches related to advertising.

4.Setting notifications on the lock screen

By default, MIUI shows the content of notifications on the lock screen, which is not always secure (especially if the messages contain personal data), you can configure which notifications are displayed and which are not.

How to hide confidential information:

1. Open the Settings → Lock screen.
2. Select Notifications on the lock screen.
3. Set one of the regimes: 🔒 Not showing notifications – complete cover-up. 📌 Show icons – only application icons without text. 📄 Display content – full text (not recommended for security).

⚠️ Note: Even if you choose to “Do Not Show Notifications”, some system alerts (such as low battery charge) will still be displayed. To hide them, you will need to turn off system notifications (see next section).

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Setting notifications on the lock screen does not affect how they appear in the curtain. To completely disable the alerts, you need to configure each application separately.

5. disable system notifications (updates, security, etc.)

System notifications from MIUI include firmware update alerts, security alerts, messages from Mi Cloud and other service messages that cannot be turned off through the standard app menu, but there are workarounds.

Methods of shutdown:

• 🔄 System Updates: Go to Settings → The phone. → Update the system. Press three dots (⋮) in the upper right corner. Select the Update Settings and turn off Autoboot.
• 🛡️ Security Notifications: Open Settings → Memory and applications → Clean up. Turn off the security alerts.
• ☁️ Mi Cloud: Go to Settings → Xiaomi account → Mi Cloud. Turn off synchronization notifications.

🔹 For advanced users: Some system notifications can be disabled via ADB-commands (requires a computer and enabled debugging on the USB). For example, to remove battery optimization notifications, follow the:

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle whitelist +com.miui.powerkeeper

6.How to turn off vibrations and notification sounds

Even if you turn off the notifications themselves, the phone can still vibrate or emit beeps. This is set up separately.

Instructions for unsetting:

1. Go to Settings. → Sound and vibration.
2. In the section Vibration, turn off: 📳 Vibration on touch. 🔔 Vibration on notifications.

Notification sounds

No sound.

🔹 You can customize the sounds for different applications, for example, Telegram emits one signal and Gmail another:

1. Open the notification settings for the desired application (see Section 2).
2. Select the Notification Sound.
3. Set a tune from the list or add your own.

7.Reset all notification settings to factory

If you have experimented with settings and now notifications are not working correctly (for example, important messages do not arrive), you can reset all settings to standard ones.

How to reset:

1. Open Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Press three points (⋮) top-right.
3. Select Reset application settings.
4. Confirm the action (this won’t delete application data, only reset permissions and notifications).

⚠️ Warning: Once reset, all permissions for notifications will be returned to default, which means that applications will be allowed to display alerts again. You will have to manually reconfigure them.

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Resetting notification settings does not affect system alerts (e.g. low battery charge) and must be set separately.

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