Owners of Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones often encounter an intrusive but useful feature: automatically watermarking images. The logo of a model or brand appears in the bottom corner of the frame immediately after shooting, which can spoil the composition or require additional processing time in graphic editors.
Fortunately, the company's engineers have made it possible to turn this option off completely directly from the camera menu, so you don't have to search for third-party apps or edit each shot manually, just change one setting to make your photos clean.
In this article, we will discuss in detail the algorithm of actions for all current versions of the MIUI and HyperOS shells. You will learn how to remove the standard stamp, how to remove the already applied logo from ready-made images and what alternative methods exist for older versions of the firmware.
Why Xiaomi Adds a Logo to the Default Photos
The appearance of the words “Shot on Xiaomi”, “Redmi Note” or “POCO” in the corner of the image is a marketing ploy that has become the industry standard, as Chinese manufacturers were the first to actively use their devices to advertise themselves, turning each shot into a mini-poster.
For many users, it's a way to show what device the frame is made with, especially if the quality of the photo is high. However, in art or reporting, the presence of extraneous elements in the photo is often unacceptable. The logo can overlap important details in the frame or simply stand out from the color scheme.
In addition, watermarking can sometimes cause problems when printing photos in laboratories or uploading them to stock resources, where images are required without any interface artifacts, which is why the first action many experienced users take after buying is to find a way to deactivate the stamp.
Standard way to disable via camera settings
The simplest and most reliable method, running on 99% of modern Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphones, is in the menu of the Camera app itself. The interface may vary slightly depending on the version of MIUI or HyperOS, but the logic remains the same.
You need to launch the camera app and go to the option menu, usually by clicking on the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the screen or the gear icon. In the list that opens, look for "Watermark" or "Watermark settings."
Inside this menu, you'll see a few switches, so you can remove the device model, the brand logo, or the time stamp, and you just need to put the sliders in an inactive position, so that the changes take effect instantly.
☑️ Algorithm of watermark deactivation
Once you do this, take a check shot, if the logo is gone, it's a success, and if the switches are missing or inactive, your firmware version may have limitations, and you'll need to use advanced customization methods.
Removal of logo from already taken pictures
If you find a watermark in photos taken earlier, the standard settings switching off will not help. You need to remove the inscription from the finished image. Xiaomi's built-in gallery editor has a powerful retouching tool that will cope with this task.
Open a photo in the gallery, click Change, and select the Lasto tool or Retouche tool (often marked with a patch or magic wand icon). Carefully color over the area with the logo. Artificial intelligence algorithms will automatically replace the text with the background, based on the surrounding pixels.
⚠️ Note: Do not use the "Cadration" function to remove the logo if it is located close to the edge of an important object. You will lose part of the composition.
For complex backgrounds where the logo overlaps details, a built-in editor may not be enough, and it is recommended to use specialized applications like TouchRetouch or Snapseed, which allow you to remove objects with greater accuracy.
Comparison of watermark removal methods
There are several approaches to solving the problem of obsessive inscriptions, and the choice of method depends on whether you need to remove the sign in the future photo or clean the archive of old photos. Below is a table that helps determine the toolkit.
| Method | Efficiency | Difficulty | Impact on quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camera settings | 100% (for new photos) | Low. | It doesn't. |
| Built-in editor | Medium | Low. | Minimum |
| Annexes (Snapseed) | Tall. | Medium | Depends on skill. |
| Online services | Tall. | Low. | Compression at loading |
As you can see from the table, preventive shutdown through settings is the most effective way, it doesn't take time to post-process and it keeps the original resolution of the image without compression artifacts.
The use of third-party software is justified only if you need to save a unique frame already taken. For regular shooting, it is better to set up the camera once and forget about the problem.
Hidden settings and developer mode
In some rare cases, especially on custom firmware or very old models, the standard watermark switch may not be available, and then hidden system settings come to the rescue, accessed through the developer mode.
To activate this mode, you need to go to Settings → On the phone and press fast. 7-10 field-by-field "Version" MIUI». After the message “You became a developer” appears in the settings menu will appear a new section.
However, it is worth noting that in modern versions of shells direct control of the watermark through the ADB-The number of commands or hidden menus is becoming less common, and more often than not, this functionality is tightly tied to the main camera app.
If you find items associated with Camera Watermark in hidden menus, change their value to false or 0. This will force the system to add metadata about the device on top of the image.
Frequent questions and problems when disconnecting
Users often find themselves in a situation where seemingly all settings are done correctly, but the logo keeps appearing, which may be due to the use of third-party shooting modes or specific filters that have their own design settings.
The problem may also be the camera app update, which means that after a major MIUI Camera update, the settings are sometimes reset to factory values, so you have to repeat the process of disabling the watermark.
⚠️ Note: Be careful when using modified versions of the camera (GCam), where logos can be written in separate scripts and do not have a visual switch in the interface.
Another reason could be the Time Label feature enabled, which is visually similar to a watermark but displays date and time.