How to completely clean the clipboard on Xiaomi phone: all the ways

The clipboard on Xiaomi smartphones is a temporary storage for text, links and images that you copy throughout the day, and over time, it becomes filled with unnecessary data: passwords from SMS, chat snippets, screenshots and even sensitive information. If you do not clean the history, it can lead to data leaks, slowdowns, or conflicts between applications (for example, when the wrong text is inserted).

Unlike iPhone or pure Android, Xiaomi smartphones (including Redmi, POCO and Black Shark) use their own MIUI shell, which by default saves the clipboard history for up to 30 days — even after rebooting the device. In this article, we will analyze all the cleaning methods: from manual removal through settings to resetting the system cache for advanced users.

Why Xiaomi’s Clipboard Should Be Cleaned Regularly

Many users are unaware that Xiaomi’s copy history is not only stored locally, but can also be synced with the company’s Mi Cloud service, meaning that copied data (such as bank card numbers or private messages) can be accessed on other devices or even leaked when an account is hacked.

In addition to security issues, a crowded clipboard affects:

• 📱 Productivity: MIUI Analyzes copy history for “smart” clues that consumes RAM.
• 🔄 Application conflicts: Some programs (e.g. messengers) may pick up old data from the buffer instead of new ones.
• 🔒 Privacy: When you transfer your phone to another person (even temporarily), they can see your copy history.
• 📶 Synchronization: If you enable the option to synchronize the clipboard in Mi Cloud, the data goes to the network, taking up traffic.

By default, MIUI saves up to the last 20 items in the buffer, but when you use it actively, this list can grow, for example, if you copy code fragments or long texts from documents, the system creates temporary files that are not always deleted automatically.

Method 1: Cleaning through the built-in MIUI menu

The easiest method is to use standard shell settings, which is suitable for all Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO models on MIUI 12-14. Importantly, this method only removes the local history, but does not affect data synchronized with the Mi Cloud.

Instructions:

1. Open any field to enter text (for example, in Messages or Notes).
2. Touch and hold the empty space until the menu appears. select the clipboard (or icon) 📋).
3. In the upper right corner, press three dots. ⋮ and select the Exchange Buffer Management.
4. Click Clear Everything and confirm the action.

If there is no buffer management, then the history function is disabled on your device. To enable it, go to Settings → Additional → Clipboard and activate the switch.

Check out the MIUI version (Settings → About the phone)

Close all applications that use the buffer (messenger, browsers)

Turn off sync with Mi Cloud (if not needed)

Take a screenshot of important data (if you are afraid of losing it)-->

Method 2: Remove via MIUI settings (for new versions)

Since MIUI 13, Xiaomi has moved the clipboard management to a separate settings menu, a method that is more reliable because it also clears the system cache associated with copying.

How to do this:

1. Open Settings → Additional → Exchange buffer.
2. Turn on the clipboard history slider if it is turned off.
3. Click Clear History (or Delete Everything Depending on Version).
4. For a complete clean, go to Warehouse → Clean and select Cash clipboard.

On some models (such as Xiaomi 13 Pro or POCO F5), this section may be called Copy and paste. If you do not find an item, search the buffer settings.

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After cleaning, restart the phone – this will help to reset temporary files that may have remained in memory.

Method 3: Disable synchronization with Mi Cloud

If you use a Mi Account, your clipboard can automatically sync to the cloud, which means that even after local cleaning, the data will remain on Xiaomi servers.

Steps:

1. Open the Settings. → Mi Account (or Xiaomi Account).
2. Go to Synchronization. → buffer.
3. Turn off the slider Synchronize the clipboard.
4. Click Clear Data (if option is available) or manually delete your history via the Mi Cloud web version (https://i.mi.com).

⚠️ Note: Once sync is disabled, you will not be able to transfer copy text between devices (e.g. from your smartphone to your Xiaomi tablet). If you need this feature, clear your history in the cloud once every 1-2 weeks.

Method 4: Cleaning the cache of system applications

If standard methods don’t work, the problem may be in the cache of the system services responsible for the clipboard, which requires access to the Developer Settings (if they are not enabled, activate them by clicking 7 times on the MIUI version in the About Phone section).

Instructions:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Press three points. ⋮ → Show system-based.
3. Find apps: com.miui.clipboard (main buffer service) com.miui.cloudservice (cloud sync)

Warehouse

Clear the cache

Clear the data

⚠️ Note: Clearing data for com.miui.cloudservice may unblock you from Mi Account. save backups of important notes or files associated with your account in advance.

Method 5: Reset via ADB (for power users)

If you are familiar with command prompt, you can clear the clipboard via Android Debug Bridge (ADB).This method deletes all temporary files, including those that are not visible in the standard interface.

Step-by-step:

1. Download and install ADB Tools on your computer.
2. Enable USB Debugging on your phone (Settings → About Phone → MIUI Version → 7 taps → Additional → For Developers).
3. Connect your phone to your PC and execute commands: adb shell pm clear com.miui.clipboard adb shell pm clear com.miui.cloudservice
4. Reset the device.

Also avoid copying sensitive data (passwords, card numbers) to the clipboard. Instead, use password managers (such as Mi Password Manager) or Secure Insert features in banking applications.

FAQ: Frequent questions about clearing the clipboard on Xiaomi