How to remove notifications on Xiaomi: the complete guide to setup

Modern Xiaomi smartphones are famous not only for their powerful hardware, but also for the rich MIUI operating system or the new HyperOS. However, the abundance of features often turns into an excessive number of pop-ups that can annoy even the experienced user. Constant weather reminders, optimization tips and banner ads in system applications create information noise, distracting from important tasks.

Many owners of Redmi and Poco devices are wondering how to effectively clean the interface of unnecessary visual debris. Fortunately, the system architecture allows you to flexibly configure almost every aspect of the notifications, if you know where to look for the right switches. In this article, we will examine all the ways to block unwanted alerts, from simple settings to advanced methods.

Understanding how Android alerts work and the manufacturer’s shell will help you regain control of your device, learn to distinguish between mission-critical messages and intrusive marketing, and learn how to make smartphone use as comfortable and clean as possible.

Basic setting of the curtain and control center

The first thing to start with is the clean screen is standard notification settings, and MIUI provides tools to control the flow of incoming messages directly from the settings menu, where you can globally turn off sounds, vibrations, or completely disable banner displays for specific applications.

To access these settings, you need to go to Settings → Notifications and Control Center, and that's where the main controls are, and you'll see a list of all the apps you've installed, and you can set individual rules for each of them.

It's important not just to blindly turn everything off, but to analyze which apps really require your constant attention, and social media and instant messengers are better left active, whereas games and rarely used utilities can be disenfranchised, which will help reduce stress and increase productivity.

• 🔔 Banners – pop-up windows that cover part of the screen.
• 🔊 Sounds - audio notifications when a message is received.
• 📳 Vibration - tactile response of the device.
• 🔒 Lock screen – displaying notification content without unlocking the phone.

Note the Important Notifications feature, which allows you to prioritize certain conversations in some versions of the shell so that they always appear at the top of the list, and is a useful tool for those waiting for an important call or message from a supervisor.

Disabling system advertising and recommendations

One of the most painful topics for Xiaomi users is embedded advertising. Although the company claims to fight it, various marketing tips and tips can still appear in standard apps. Fortunately, there is a single switch that allows you to significantly reduce their number.

To disable ads, go to your Mi Account settings. Find Settings → Passwords & Security → Authorization & Privacy. This is where the Get References switch is located, which is responsible for showing personalized content and promotional offers throughout the system.

⚠️ Note: After disabling the Receive Recommendations feature, the changes may not take effect immediately.The system may require a restart or wait a few minutes to update the configuration on the server.

In addition to the global switch, it is worth checking the settings of individual system applications, such as Explorer, Music or Video. Each of them often has its own Receive Recommendations switch, which must be disabled separately, which ensures that you do not see an ad banner when you open the file folder.

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Use Do Not Disturb during sleep or important appointments to temporarily block all visual and audible notifications without changing the basic system settings.

Also worth a look at is the Security app, which is the one that most often generates junk file notifications or memory cleanups, and by going to the settings of this app (via the gear in the top right corner), you can turn off receiving recommendations and virus notifications if you are confident in the source of the software installation.

Managing Notifications for Specific Applications

The flexibility of the Android Operaonic system allows you to adjust notifications to each channel, which means you can allow the app to send messages about new orders, but you can prevent notifications about discounts or news.

Go to Settings → Notifications and Control Center → Notification Management and select the desired application, such as a marketplace or social network. You will see a list of categories, such as Orders, Promotions, Friends Online or Games. By disabling unnecessary categories, you leave only really important information.

Some apps try to get around the restrictions by creating their own notification services. In such cases, banning autorun helps. Go to Settings → Apps → All apps, select the right one and find Autostart. Disabling this feature will prevent the application from running in the background, which will also reduce the number of pop-ups.

Be careful with system services such as Google Play Services or Mi Service. Disabling their notifications completely can cause some features, such as synchronizing contacts or finding a device, to work incorrectly, and it is better to limit yourself to disabling only marketing categories if they are available.

Setting up an ad blocker in browsers

Often, annoying pop-ups are not from system apps, but from web browsers, sites that can request permission to display notifications, and the user agrees without hesitation, resulting in news from questionable resources coming up in the curtain.

To check which sites have access to notifications, open your browser settings (such as Chrome or the built-in Mi Browser).Look for Settings → Notifications. There will be a list of all the sites you have allowed messages to. Just delete or block suspicious domains.

For the built-in Mi Browser, the situation is similar: go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Notifications. Here you can completely prevent sites from asking permission to send push notifications, which will eliminate most advertising spam.

Periodically reviewing the list of permitted sites is recommended, as new domains can appear after random clicks on banner ads on the Internet.

Specifics of work in HyperOS mode

With the release of the new HyperOS shell, Xiaomi has slightly changed the logic of the interface, although the basic principles remain the same, the new system improved the grouping of notifications and added smarter filters that automatically sort messages by importance.

HyperOS has expanded control over live widgets and active windows, so you can not just turn off notifications, but also prevent the application from displaying floating windows on top of other applications. → Special facilities → Floating windows.

Users note that the new system has less intrusive advertising out of the box, but privacy settings have become stricter. When you first start, the system can insist on enabling various recommendation services - carefully read the screens when you initially set up to immediately abandon the unnecessary.

If you upgraded from MIUI 14 to HyperOS and encountered notification bugs (for example, they don’t come or come with a delay), try resetting the notification system settings. This can be done through the application settings recovery menu without deleting personal data.

Solving Missing Notifications Issues

Sometimes the reverse happens: the user blocks notifications so hard that he stops receiving important messages from messengers or mail. Aggressive energy savings in MIUI often kills the background processes of applications, preventing them from delivering a message in time.

If you stop receiving notifications from WhatsApp, Telegram or email client, check your battery settings. Go to Settings → Battery and Performance, find the desired application, and select the “No Limits” strategy.

Also make sure that auto-start is enabled for an important application.Without this permission, the app won't be able to start after the phone has restarted and therefore won't be able to receive messages until you manually open it.

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Balance between clean interface and functionality: Turn off only advertising noise, leaving critical communication channels active.

In some cases, cleaning the cache of the Google Play service or the recipient app itself helps. Accumulated errors in the services can block the delivery of push notifications. Go to Settings → Apps → All applications, select the service and click Clear Cache.

Additional methods of blocking through ADB

For advanced users who want to be absolutely clean, there is a method of using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) debugging, which allows you to remove or disable the system components responsible for advertising at a depth level that is not available through a conventional interface.

To do this, you need to turn on the developer mode, connect the phone to the computer and enter special commands, for example, the command to disable the system advertising service MSA (Miui System Ads) is as follows:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.miui.misys

Using ADB requires caution. Incorrect removal of the system package can lead to unstable interface operation or cyclical reboot. Before applying any commands, it is strongly recommended to make a full backup of the data.

⚠️ Note: Disconnecting system services through ADB This method can disrupt the GetApps store or the theme of the design. Use this method only if you understand what a particular package is responsible for.

Once the ADB commands are applied, the changes take effect immediately, and if you notice a phone malfunction, you can return the remote component with the adb shell cmd package install-existing command, but the easiest way to do a full factory reset.

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