Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphone owners often experience intrusive content that appears after the display is turned on. Instead of the usual hours and dates, users see news feeds, cookbooks, crossword puzzles and promotional articles. This is a standard feature of the system, known as Glance for Mi or Wallpaper Carousel, which is designed to hold the user’s attention, but often only annoying.
The problem is that the settings of this feature can change after updating the MIUI shell or HyperOS, and also depend on the region chosen when you first set up the device. Xiaomi actively promotes its services, so the option can be turned on by default even without you knowing. You can remove this information noise, but you need to know where to go to the menu.
In this article, we’ll look at all the current ways to disable tape across different firmware versions. We’ll look at standard methods through settings, ways for global versions, and options for Chinese builds. Careful follow-up will allow you to return a clean lock screen that will only show time and notifications.
What is a Glance tape and why does it appear
A feature popularly called “recipes” or “news” is part of Glance for Mi (formerly Lock Screen Magazine), a content aggregator that loads images and articles from the Internet, and algorithms analyze your interests to suggest relevant content, but often this leads to ads or unnecessary information.
If you first set up your smartphone in India, Indonesia or Russia, the system could automatically activate this service. In European versions of firmware (EEA), this feature can be called Wallpaper Carousel or replaced with Google Discover, but the principle of operation remains similar.
⚠️ Warning: Disabling Glance tape does not affect the performance of the main widgets or live wallpaper unless they are tied to that particular news service.
Many users confuse the standard carousel with viruses, but it's actually a legitimate application of the system that has its permissions and access to the network. ADB-commands are often not possible, but you can completely deaktivirovat' (deactivate) its display.
Disconnection through wallpaper settings (Global versions)
The easiest and most common way to remove recipes is to change the lock theme settings, which works on most devices with MIUI 12, 13, 14 and the new HyperOS. You don't need third-party software, everything is done by regular means.
Go to the Settings menu on your smartphone. Find the Lock Screen (or Wallpaper and Personalization in new versions) section. Here you need to find the item responsible for changing pictures, which can be called Wallpaper Carousel, Glance for Mi or Wallpaper with ribbon.
- 📱 Open Settings and go to the Lock Screen section.
- 🔄 Find the wallpaper carousel switch and turn it off.
- 🖼️ If there is no switch, click on Wallpaper and select a static image from the gallery.
- ✅ Restart the device to make the changes effective.
In some cases, the system may require you to confirm the action or suggest an alternative: agree to use standard static wallpaper. If the screen still flashes or displays ads after the feature is turned off, you may have a separate theme installed that forcibly turns on the service, in which case change the theme to the standard one.
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Settings for users from Russia and CIS
For devices purchased in the CIS or with Russian firmware installed, the interface may differ, and here the function is often integrated deeper into the system and may be called Widget Ribbon or be part of the Yandex or Mi Browser service.
The first step is to check the Security app. Open the standard Security app (green zipper icon). Click on the three dots in the top right corner and select Settings. Find the Receive Recommendations or Receive Content section and turn off all sliders. This will stop the news feed from loading.
The second important step is to set up the lock screen itself. Go to Settings → Lock screen. If there is Connected Devices or Lock Services, go there. You need to find an active service (often signed as Glance or simply Lock Series) and click Delete or Disable.
| Settings section | Name of function | Action. |
|---|---|---|
| Lock screen | Wallpaper carousel | Turn off the switch. |
| Security | Receive recommendations | Remove the tick/Switch off |
| Passwords and security | Lockdown services | Delete/Disable |
| Advanced settings | Pocket dialing mode | Check (not linked but close by) |
⚠️ Warning: After updating the firmware settings may reset. it is recommended to check these points again after each major system update.
Removal through Application Management
If the standard switches don't work or are not available, you can try disabling the system application that outputs content, which is more radical but effective, and you'll need access to a full list of installed applications.
Go to Settings → Apps → All apps. You can find an app called Glance for Mi, Lock Screen Magazine or Wallpaper with Ribbon. The icon usually looks like a colorful circle or Mi logo.
In the menu that opens, find the Disable or Remove Updates button. If the Remove button is active (not grey), feel free to delete the app. If only the Disable button is available, use it. This will prevent the system from starting the process of downloading recipes.
What to do if there is no "disconnect" button?
When the application is disabled, the lock screen should be clean, however, in some cases, the system may try to reactivate the service the next time it connects to Wi-Fi. To prevent this, you can further deny the application access to the network in the Access Control or Data Use section.
Use of third-party launchers and blockers
When Xiaomi's built-in methods fail, third-party solutions come to the rescue. Replacing the standard lock screen is one of the most reliable ways to get rid of ads. There are applications that completely intercept the unlock function.
One popular option is to install a custom launcher with Lock Screen replacement function. Apps like Hi Locker or CM Locker allow you to customize your design and completely ignore Xiaomi's system settings. Once you install such an application, the system will ask for permission to use as a lock screen, agree.
- 🔒 Download the app to replace the lock screen from Google Play.
- ⚙️ Give all the necessary permissions in Android settings.
- 🎨 Set the look to your taste.
- 🚫 The Glance system tape will stop showing.
Another way is to use ad-blocking apps like Blokada or AdGuard, which can block the servers that are downloading recipes, and you can add filtering rules or just activate DNS protection, and it doesn't take away the empty space, but it does prevent content from being downloaded.
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Using a third-party screen blocker can slightly increase battery consumption, as it is an additional active process in the system.
Solving problems with Chinese versions of firmware
Owners of devices imported from China (CN Version) or re-flashed to Chinese firmware face the greatest challenges, and in the Chinese versions of MIUI and HyperOS, aggressive marketing is built deeper, and removing “garbage” is more difficult.
Changing your region often helps. Go to Settings → Additional → Region. Change your country to the United States, Germany or Singapore. This can automatically turn off some Chinese services and replace them with global counterparts, where there is less intrusive advertising. After changing the region, reboot your phone.
If the region change didn't work, you'll have to use a computer and an ADB utility, which is a developer tool that lets you control the system via the command line, and you'll have to connect your phone to USB by turning on USB debugging in the developer menu.
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.miui.mishare.connectivity
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.miui.personalassistantThese commands disable the personal assistant and some exchange services that often pull news feeds. Be careful when typing commands: an error in the name of the package can lead to unstable system operation. The pm disable-user command does not delete the application, but only hides it for the current user, which is safe for the system.
⚠️ Attention: When working with ADB-Incorrectly disabling system components can lead to a cyclical reboot).
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Changing the region to the European or the United States is the safest way to reduce the amount of advertising on Chinese firmware without using a computer.