How to take a screenshot on a smartphone Xiaomi Redmi: the full guide

Creating a screenshot on Xiaomi or Redmi devices is a basic feature that is required daily: whether it is saving an important dialogue, instructions or an interesting moment from the game. Despite its apparent simplicity, the MIUI shell and its modern version of HyperOS offer many ways to perform this action that many users do not even know. Understanding all the available methods saves time and makes interaction with the gadget much more comfortable.

In this article, we’ll take a look at every way you can create a screenshot, from classic buttons to advanced features like long scrolling. You’ll learn not just to capture an image, but also to instantly edit, share it, or hide sensitive data. The unique feature of MIUI allows you to take screenshots with triple tapping on the screen, which is not found in standard Android.

This material will be useful for both beginners who have just bought their first smartphone and experienced users who want to optimize the workflow, we will touch on the nuances of working with different models, including those that do not have physical navigation buttons, and consider the hidden settings of the system.

Classical Method Through Physical Buttons

The most common and versatile way, which works on the vast majority of Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco smartphones, involves pressing two buttons simultaneously. You need to press the on button (located on the side edge) and the volume button to reduce. It is important to observe synchrony: pressing should occur almost simultaneously, with a minimum interval.

If you press the late buttons, instead of taking a screenshot, you can activate the turn off menu or start a voice assistant. On some models with a side fingerprint scanner, the turn on button is combined with the sensor, but the algorithm remains the same. Once successful, you hear the characteristic click of the camera shutter, and in the corner of the screen appears a smaller copy of the image taken.

This is the most reliable method, as it works even in the rare cases when the touch screen temporarily does not respond to touch or the system is under stress.

⚠️ Warning: Do not hold the buttons for too long (more than 2 seconds).In some firmware versions, long-term pressing of these buttons can cause the device to be forced to restart or start Recovery mode.

Use of notification curtain and control menu

For those who are uncomfortable reaching for the side edges of a smartphone or holding a device with one hand, Xiaomi has implemented a software button in the control panel. To use this method, you need to swipe from top to bottom to open the “curtain” of notifications and fully deploy the quick settings panel.

Among the many icons, find a button called Screenshot or Screenshot, and if you can't see it in the front row, you might need to press the edit button (usually a pencil or three dots) and drag it into a prominent place, and you press it and you hear the shutter sound, and you save the screenshot to the gallery.

This is especially true when you take a screenshot of the settings menu, where the button combination may not work due to the system limitations of some applications, and it is also convenient if you have damaged one of the physical buttons.

Gestures: triple touch and swipes

MIUI is famous for its customization capabilities, and one of the most convenient features is to take a screenshot through gestures, which allows you to take screenshots literally on the fly without taking your mind off the content. There are two main types of gesture commands available in modern versions of firmware.

The first option is triple tapping. You need to tap the screen three times with your finger, the system recognizes the rhythm and takes a picture of the active area, the second option is swipe three fingers down, a gesture that is often used in other brands, but on Xiaomi it can also be activated through special settings.

To enable these features, go to Settings → Additional Settings → Screenshots. Here you can activate the desired options and even adjust the capture area. Gestures significantly speed up the work when the user's hands are busy or dirty.

Voice control via Google Assistant and XiaoAI

Modern smartphones allow voice functions to be controlled, which is especially convenient when hands are busy or the device is away. Global firmware versions most often use Google Assistant, while Chinese versions are dominated by XiaoAI.

To create a screenshot, you just have to say, "Ok Google, take a screenshot," or "Ok Google, screenshot," and the assistant will immediately do the action and suggest ways to share, edit, or save, which is one of the fastest ways to do it without having to physically contact the screen.

Voice control requires a stable Internet connection to handle the request on the company's servers, and the microphone must be functional and have access to the system, and in noisy rooms, recognition accuracy can decrease, so diction should be improved.

The function of a long screenshot (scroll)

One of the most sought-after features in Xiaomi’s ecosystem is the ability to create long screenshots, or “scrolls,” which is an indispensable tool for saving long correspondence in messengers, browser articles or contact lists. A typical shot captures only the visible part of the screen, but the scrolling mode allows you to “stitch” several screens into one long picture.

Immediately after you create a normal screenshot (in any of the ways described above), a thumbnail appears in the upper right corner, and it has a Scroll button (or an icon with arrows down), and when you click on it, the system automatically starts to scroll down, capturing new areas, and the process stops when you touch the screen or reach the end of the page.

For example, in some games or video players, the content is not a scrolling list, so the button may be inactive or absent, and the quality of the final image may decrease slightly with strong compression.

Editing and managing saved images

Once you've created a screenshot, MIUI offers a powerful built-in editor, and unlike standard Android, you can not just crop the image, but you can add text, stickers, blur sensitive data (the Magic feature), and draw by hand, which turns the screenshot into a full document or instruction.

All images are saved to the Screenshots folder inside internal memory, and you can find them through the Gallery app or File Manager Explorer, the system automatically sorts them by date of creation, which makes it easier to search, and you can configure cloud sync through Google Photos or Xiaomi Cloud if necessary.

The table below compares the main methods of creating screenshots by speed and convenience:

You can also automate removing unnecessary screenshots, and you can set a rule in the gallery settings that will delete screenshots older than 30 days, which will help save disk space, but before you do that, make sure that important data is not lost.

⚠️ Warning: When using Magic to hide passwords or personal data, always check the result before sending. Sometimes the algorithm can leave legible parts of text at the boundaries of the blurred area.

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