How to completely remove ads on Xiaomi 13 Lite: from system banners to push notifications

Owners of Xiaomi 13 Lite often face annoying advertising in the interface MIUI — From banners in the settings menu to pop-up notifications from system applications. The manufacturer integrates advertising modules at the firmware level, which makes it difficult to remove them completely without additional manipulation. In this article, we will discuss all the current ways to disable advertising, including hidden settings, ADB-commands and methods for users without root rights.

It is important to understand that some of the advertising in MIUI is related to the services MSA (Mi Security Center) and MiuiSystemAdSolution, which are responsible for analytics and personalized offers. Completely disabling them can affect the operation of certain functions (for example, cloud backup or device protection).

1. Disabling advertising in the MIUI system settings

The first step is to deactivate the ad modules through the standard menus, which is a technique that requires no technical skills and is suitable for most users.

• 📱 Advertising in the settings menu: Go to Settings → The phone. → Version. MIUI (tap 7 times to activate the developer mode, then return to Settings → Additionally. → Special facilities → Advertising and disable slider Show recommendations.
• 🔔 Push notifications: Go to Settings → Notifications → Additionally, deactivate the recommendation option from MIUI.
• 🌐 Browser and system applications: In Settings → Annexes → App management find Browser, Music, Video and disable permission to Show notifications.

Note that after the MIUI update, some settings may be reset, and check them after each major firmware update, and note that in regional versions of MIUI (for example, for Europe), some ad modules are already disabled by default, but banners in Themes or Cleaner may remain.

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If banners continue to appear after disabling the ad in the settings, try clearing the cache of system applications (Settings → Apps → Show All → Three Dots → Clear the cache).

2. deactivation of advertising services through the MSA (Mi Security Center)

The Mobile Security Architecture (MSA) service is responsible for analytics and personalized advertising in MIUI, which can be partially disabled without root rights:

1. Go to Settings → Password and Security → Authorization and Locking.
2. Find the section MSA (It can be called Mi Security Center and turn off the sliders: 🔍 Personalized recommendations 📊 Sending of usage data 🔄 Automatic diagnostics

Settings → Synchronization

Mi Cloud

After disabling the MSA, some features (such as finding a device through Find Device) may not work properly. If you are critical of this option, skip the step to deactivate the Mi Cloud.

3.Using ADB to Deeply Disable Advertising

If the system settings do not help, you can use ADB-Android Debug Bridge, which requires you to connect your smartphone to your PC, but it doesn't violate the warranty or require root rights. You'll need to use it:

• 🖥️ Computer with installed ADB Tools.
• 📱 Developer mode enabled and debugging by USB Xiaomi 13 Lite.
• 🔌 USB-cable (preferably original).

Instructions:

1. Connect the phone to the PC and confirm the debugging permission.
2. Open the command prompt (Windows) or terminal (macOS/Linux) in the folder with ADB.
3. Enter alternately the commands: adb shell pm hide com.miui.systemAdSolution adb shell pm hide com.xiaomi.midrop adb shell pm hide com.miui.analytics adb shell pm hide com.miui.cloudservice adb shell pm hide com.miui.cloudbackup
4. Reset the device.

These commands hide the system applications responsible for displaying ads. If after the reboot some functions (for example, backup) stopped working, return the applications with the command:

adb shell pm unhide [name packet]

✅ Install ADB Tools on PC

✅ Enable the developer mode on Xiaomi 13 Lite

✅ Allow debugging by USB phone-setting

✅ Connect your phone to the original cable

✅ Check the connection with the adb device command

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4. Disabling Advertising in Standard Xiaomi Apps

Even after system settings, ads can appear in pre-installed apps: Themes, Cleaner, Mi Video and others.

If an app doesn’t have explicit ad settings, try clearing its cache and data through Settings → Apps → App Management → [app name] → Storage. This will reset personal settings, but it will also delete stored data (such as bookmarks in the browser).

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5. Alternative methods: shutting down the Internet for system applications

If the ads keep coming, you can restrict Internet access to the system services responsible for downloading them, which is a radical method, but it works even without ADB:

1. Go to Settings. → SIM-maps and mobile networks → Transfer of data → Use of data by applications.
2. Find it on the list: 📡 MiuiDaemon 🔄 MSA (Mi Security Center) 📊 Analytics 🎨 Topics

Mobile data

Wi-Fi

This method has side effects:

⚠️ Note: Internet shutdown for MSA It can disrupt Find Device (phone search when lost) and update virus databases in Security. If these features are important, use the method selectively.

For fine-tuning, you can use a firewall like NetGuard (requires a root) or Blokada (works without a root, but blocks ads at the DNS level), which allows you to flexibly manage network traffic of system processes.

6. Radical methods: custom firmware and root

If none of the above methods worked, there are two options:

1. Installing custom firmware (like LineageOS or Pixel Experience) will completely remove MIUI along with all ad modules, but will require unlocking the bootloader and may take away warranty.
2. Getting root rights and removing system applications via Titanium Backup or Root Explorer. list of uninstall packages: com.miui.systemAdSolution com.xiaomi.midrop com.miui.analytics com.miui.cloudservice com.miui.cloudbackup com.miui.bugreport com.xiaomi.market

If you buy Xiaomi 13 Lite hand-held, reset to factory settings before use (Settings → About Phone → Settings Reset) this will remove any residual settings from the previous owner that may have activated additional ad modules.

FAQ: Frequent questions about advertising on Xiaomi 13 Lite