How to make a full screen on Xiaomi devices: all the ways

Introduction: why you need full screen mode on Xiaomi

Full-screen mode on Xiaomi devices is not just an aesthetic solution, but a functional necessity for many users. On smartphones, it allows you to hide the navigation bar and status bar, freeing up an additional 10-15% of the screen for content, especially for owners of devices with notches ("monobra") or droplets — for example, the Redmi Note 10 Pro or POCO X3 Pro, where every pixel counts.

On Mi TVs and Redmi Smart TVs, full-screen removes black margins around the edges, which is critical when watching movies with a non-standard aspect ratio (e.g. 21:9) or when playing games through Google Stadia/Xbox Cloud Gaming. And in applications like YouTube or Netflix, this ensures that the video is not cropped around the edges. But how to achieve perfect display without losing functionality? Next, all working methods for different devices and scenarios.

Method 1: Full-screen mode on Xiaomi smartphones (MIUI)

On smartphones running MIUI 12/13/14, there are two types of full-screen mode: software (hiding panels by gestures) and hardware (stretching content under the camera notch), starting with the first one, it works on all models, including the Redmi 9A and Xiaomi 12T.

To hide the navigation bar and status bar:

1. Open the Settings → Display.
2. Select Full Screen Mode (or Gestures in newer versions of MIUI).
3. Activate Hide the navigation bar and select the gesture style (MIUI or Android).
4. To hide the status bar in apps, turn on Full-screen display and add the desired programs to the exception list.

For hardware content stretching (hiding "monobrov"):

• 🔧 Go to Settings. → Display. → Additionally. → Full screen mode.
• 📱 Select Allow Full Screen Display for Applications.
• 🎯 Manually add apps that should ignore the cutout (such as games or video players).

Update MIUI to the latest version

Check the compatibility of applications with gestures

Make a backup of the screen settings

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Important: On some models (for example, Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra) after activation of full-screen mode, the battery charge indicator may disappear. To return it, go to Settings → Battery → Charge indicator and turn on the display as a percentage.

Method 2: Full screen on Xiaomi TVs (Mi TV/Redmi TV)

On Xiaomi TVs, full-screen mode is set differently than on smartphones, where aspect ratio and zoom play a key role, for example, when watching movies in 2.35:1 (the film) on the edges of the screen, black fields appear to remove them:

Instructions for Mi TV 4S/5X and Redmi Smart TV X:

1. During the video playback, press the Menu button on the remote.
2. Select Image → Screen Mode.
3. Try the options: Auto — adjusts to the content (not always accurately); Stretching — fills the entire screen, but can distort the proportions; Cut — removes the fields, keeping the proportions (better for movies); Original — unchanged (the fields remain).

For constant use of settings (so as not to choose the mode every time):

1. Go to Settings → Picture → Additional → Default screen mode.
2. Choose to Cut or Stretching depending on your preferences.

For forced full screen mode in any application:

1. Activate Developer Mode (7 times tap the MIUI version in Settings → About Phone).
2. Back to Settings → Additionally. → For developers.
3. Find the Forced Full Screen Display and turn it on.

Method 4: Full-screen mode via ADB (for power users)

If the standard methods do not work, you can use them. ADB-It's a way of making it work, and it's a way of making it work for Xiaomi, POCO and Redmi based on Android 10+.

Instructions:

1. Install ADB Tools on your PC.
2. Connect your smartphone to your computer and allow debugging over USB (Settings → Developers → Debugging over USB).
3. Open the command line in the folder with ADB Enter: adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.full=* This command will enable full screen mode for all applications.
4. Please use the following: adb shell settings put global policy_control null

For selective inclusion of full-screen mode only for specific applications:

1. Find out the name of the application package (for example, through App Inspector).
2. Follow the command: adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.DevelopmentSettings to open the developer settings.
3. Adb shell settings put global settings policy_control immersive.full=com.package.name by replacing com.package.name with the real name of the package.

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⚠️ Attention: Misuse of the right ADB This can cause system failures, such as the immersive.full command.=* It can hide the notification bar in some applications without the possibility of returning. → System system → Backup.

Method 5: Full-screen mode on Xiaomi tablets (Pad 5/6)

The Xiaomi Pad 5 and Pad 6 have unique full-screen settings due to the large screen (11" and 12.4" respectively) and support for desktop mode. Here, full-screen mode is set up separately for tablet and desktop interfaces.

For tablet mode:

• 📱 Go to Settings. → Display. → Full screen mode.
• 🔄 Enable Automatic Hiding of Panels.
• 🎯 For applications, use Forced Stretching (similar to smartphones).

For desktop mode (MIUI for Pad):

• 🖥️ Activate Desktop Mode through Settings → Special facilities → Tablet mode.
• 🔍 In desktop mode, full screen mode is turned on separately for each window (double click on the header or button). F11 keyboard).
• 📏 To stretch the window to the full screen, drag it to the top of the screen (like Windows).

The Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro has an additional Super Resolution feature that improves image quality when stretching content. It is included in Settings → Display → Super Resolution.

Problem Solving: What to Do When Full Screen Mode Doesn't Work

Sometimes even after all the settings, the full screen mode refuses to work.-5 causes and solutions:

⚠️ Note: On some models POCO (for example, POCO F4 GT) post-update MIUI 14 may be missing the possibility of hiding the camera cutout in games, due to Xiaomi's policy of certifying devices for games. MIUI 13 or using custom firmware (e.g., Pixel Experience).

If the problem persists, check:

• 🔄 Version MIUI — on older versions (below) MIUI 12) full screen mode may not work properly.
• 📱 Model of the device - on some budget models (for example, Redmi) 8A) Hardware content stretching is not supported.
• 🔧 Developer Settings – Make sure that options like Debugging are not activated GPU, which may interfere with rendering.

FAQ: Frequent questions about full-screen mode on Xiaomi