How to permanently remove recommendations after watching a video in the gallery Xiaomi Redmi

After watching a video in the standard Xiaomi Redmi gallery, many users are faced with intrusive recommendations like “Similar Videos” or “You may like” – blocks that not only take up space on the screen, but also slow down the app and sometimes even upload content from the Internet without your knowledge. In this article, we will examine all the working ways to disable recommendations, from standard MIUI settings to hidden developer settings.

The problem is particularly relevant for smartphone owners on MIUI 12-14, where the recommendation function is integrated deep into system services. On older versions (MIUI 11 and below), the algorithm is different, so the methods may differ. We tested the solutions on the Redmi Note 10/11/12, Redmi 9/10 and POCO X3/X4 models – all of which work, but with nuance.

It’s important to understand that some recommendations are not generated by the gallery itself, but by Xiaomi Cloud or Mi Video services, which means that a comprehensive approach can be required to completely disable the application, from setting up the application to limiting the background activity of system processes.

Why are recommendations appearing in the Xiaomi gallery

MIUI analyzes your gallery activities and builds personalized collections from them, and these are the main reasons why you're recommending:

• 📱 Algorithm MIUI Gallery: The app scans video metadata (duration, resolution, tags) and offers similar content from your library.
• 🌐 Integration with Mi Video: If you have ever used a standard Mi Video player, the gallery will pull up recommendations from this service.
• ☁️ Xiaomi Cloud: Cloud storage analyzes your files and can offer content from “shared” folders or recommendations from other users (if sync is enabled).
• 🤖 Background activity: com.miui.gallery works in the background and updates recommendations even when the application is closed.

Starting with MIUI 12.5, Xiaomi has added a Smart Gallery feature that automatically categorizes content and offers “useful” selections, which is often to blame for the appearance of unnecessary blocks. In newer versions (MIUI 13/14), the algorithm has become more aggressive, now it analyzes even screenshots and memes, offering “similar” pictures.

⚠️ Attention: If you use themed wallpapers or download content from Mi Community, recommendations will appear more often, the system perceives this as “interest in the topic” and strongly suggests similar materials.

Method 1: Disabling recommendations in gallery settings

The easiest method is to use the built-in app options, which works on most devices, but may vary depending on the version of MIUI:

1. Open the Gallery app.
2. Tap the three-point menu (⋮) in the upper right corner and select Settings.
3. Scroll down to the Guidelines or Personalization section (names may vary).
4. Turn off the sliders: 🔄 «Show similar videos» 📹 «Recommendations from Mi Video» 🌐 «Online content (if available)

Save the changes and restart the gallery.

Some firmware (e.g. MIUI 13 Global) may have these options hidden, so try an alternative path:

Settings → System applications → Gallery → Content recommendations

⚠️ Note: After disabling recommendations, some gallery functions may be slower, because the system stops cacheing video metadata for analysis.

Close the gallery through the "Last Appendices"

Open the video and check for the lack of a similar block

Reboot your smartphone (optional)

Check the settings again in 10 minutes-->

Method 2: Limitation of Mi Video Application Rights

If recommendations keep popping up, the problem may be in the Mi Video app, which is tightly integrated with the gallery and often feeds content even when you're not using it.

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Find Mi Video (or Video) and tap it.
3. Select Permissions and Disable: 📁 «Storage" (this will prevent the app from scanning your files) 🌐 «Internet (to block online recommendations) 📍 «Location” (if included)

Stop it.

Settings → Applications → Auto Launch

Mi Video

After that, the app won’t be able to update the recommendations, but some features (like streaming online videos) will stop working, and if you use Mi Video to watch movies, this won’t work, you’ll have to compromise.

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If after the restriction of the rights of Mi Video gallery began to issue errors when opening the video, try to clear the cache of the gallery in the settings of the application.

Method 3: Disabling Personalization in MIUI

MIUI collects your preferences through the personalization system, and by disabling it, you will reduce the number of recommendations not only in the gallery, but also in other applications (for example, in Mi Browser or Mi Music).

1. Open the Settings. → Confidentiality.
2. Select Special Permits → Personalization of Recommendations.
3. Turn off the slider Personalized recommendations.
4. In the same section, tap on Personalization Data Reset and confirm the action.

This method works on all versions of MIUI, but has a side effect: after resetting personalization, some services (such as Mi Fit or Xiaomi Cloud) can request reauthorization.

⚠️ Attention: MIUI 14 Xiaomi added protection against disabling personalization. If after reset recommendations returned after a few days, try combining this method with the restriction of rights Mi Video (Method 2).

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Method 4: Using ADB to Deep Shut Down

If standard methods do not help, you can resort to ADB-This requires you to connect your smartphone to your PC and turn on the developer mode, but it's guaranteed to turn off system-level recommendations:

1. Activate Developer Mode: Go to Settings → About Phone. Tap 7 times on MIUI Version. Go back to Settings → Additional → For Developers and turn on USB Debugging.

ADB-tools

adb devices

Make sure your device is listed.

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.miui.gallery.recommendation

If the team doesn’t work, try an alternative:

adb shell settings put global miui_gallery_recommendation_enabled 0

Reboot your smartphone.

On some firmware (e.g. Redmi Note 11 Pro+ 5G with MIUI 13.0.4), the standard command does not work due to the changed packet name.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.miui.videoplayer

⚠️ Attention: Teams ADB This can cause the gallery to work unstable if entered incorrectly. Create a backup of the data through Settings before execution. → System system → Backup.

Method 5: Installation of an alternative gallery

If neither of these methods worked, the radical solution is to abandon the standard gallery in favor of third-party apps.

• 📂 Google Photos: No recommendations, but requires login to Google account. Supports cloud storage and automatic sorting.
• 🖼️ Simple Gallery: Lightweight application without ads and analytics. There is a hidden folder feature.
• 🎨 A+ Gallery: Minimalist design, no online recommendations, gestures support.
• 🔍 QuickPic: Quick to work with large media libraries, but can show ads in the free version.

To replace the standard gallery:

1. Install the selected application from Google Play.
2. Go to Settings → Applications → By default → Gallery.
3. Select the new app as the default gallery.
4. Disable notifications from the standard gallery: Settings → Apps → Gallery → Notifications.

The disadvantage of this method is the loss of some MIUI functions, for example:

• 🔒 Hidden albums (in the standard gallery they are password protected).
• 📱 Quick view (gust down on the lock screen).
• ☁️ Automatic synchronization with Xiaomi Cloud.

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Alternative galleries not only remove recommendations, but also save battery life – the standard MIUI gallery consumes up to 5% of the charge per day due to background activity.

Method 6: Reset Gallery settings (last resort)

If recommendations come up even after all the manipulations, the last option is to reset the gallery settings to factory settings, which will delete all your personal settings (albums, tags, hidden files), but return the application to a "clean" state.

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management → Gallery.
2. Select Warehouse and click Clear Data and Clear Cache.
3. Confirm the action (this will remove all local settings of the gallery).
4. Reboot your smartphone.

After discharge:

• 🔄 Recommendations will disappear, but will return after 1-2 days, if you do not turn them off in the settings (Method 1).
• 📁 Hidden folders will become visible – they will have to be hidden again.
• 🔒 Album passwords will be reset (if used).

⚠️ Note: On some devices (e.g. Redmi) K50) Gallery reset also resets Mi Cloud settings. Before the procedure, check if your photos are synced to the cloud.

Additional Tips for Galleries Optimization

To avoid returning recommendations, follow these recommendations:

• 🚫 Do not use Mi Video: Remove or freeze the app via ADB, If you don't watch movies.
• 🔄 Clean the cache regularly: In gallery settings (Storage) → Clear cache) this reduces the amount of data analyzed.
• ☁️ Turn off sync with Xiaomi Cloud: Go to Settings → Accounts. → Mi Cloud and Deactivate Gallery Synchronization.
• 📵 Limit background activity: In battery settings (Settings) → Battery → Selection of applications) set the gallery mode Limited background.

If you often shoot videos but don’t want to see recommendations, try the following:

1. Create a separate folder for video (e.g., DCIM/Camera/Videos).
2. In the gallery settings, turn off the scan of this folder: Settings → Folders → Exclude folders.
3. Use a third-party player (such as VLC or MX Player) to watch the video.

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To prevent the gallery from analyzing screenshots, move them to the Pictures/Screenshots folder and exclude it from scanning in the application settings.

FAQ: Frequent questions about recommendations at Xiaomi Gallery