How to completely remove Yandex requests on Xiaomi phone: 5 working ways

The history of Yandex searches on Xiaomi’s smartphone can contain sensitive information, from personal interests to financial data. Even after deleting your browser or resetting your phone, some queries are saved to your Yandex ID account if you’re logged in. In this article, we’ll look at all the ways to clean up your history, from standard settings to hidden MIUI features that work on Redmi Note 12, POCO X5, Xiaomi 13T and others.

Xiaomi phones feature a pre-installed Yandex app (browser or search engine) that is integrated into the system and not always removed by standard methods. We will show you how to circumvent these restrictions, including clearing cache through Settings → Applications and forced service stops, and you will learn why requests can reappear after deleting and how to fix it.

1. Delete requests directly in the Yandex browser

The fastest way is to clear the history directly in the Yandex.Browser application, which works even without logging in to your account, but only deletes data from your current device, and if you sync with Yandex ID, requests will stay in the cloud.

Open your browser and follow the steps:

• 📱 Slip on the icon "Three dots"** (menu) in the lower right corner.
• 📜 Select History (or Journal in older versions).
• 🗑️ Click Clear History → Select a period (All the time for complete cleaning).
• ✅ Confirm the action, uncheck cookies and cache if you need to save authorization on the sites.

Important: In some versions of MIUI (e.g. Redmi 10C), History may be hidden. To find it, first update your browser through Google Play or use an alternative method from the next section.

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If the story is not cleared, try to close all tabs in the browser first (button «✕» next to each tab, and then repeat the procedure.

2. Cleaning through the settings of the Yandex application

If Yandex browser is preinstalled and does not have a history clearing button (a frequent problem on POCO M5 and Xiaomi 12 Lite), use the MIUI system settings:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Find Yandex.Browser or Yandex (if you have a search engine installed).
3. Slip the vault. → Clear the data.
4. Select Clear the cache and Delete all data (this will reset your browser settings to factory settings).

On phones with MIUI 14+, after data clearing, the app can automatically restore a history from a Xiaomi Cloud backup. To avoid this, disable reservations for Yandex applications in Settings → Xiaomi Account → Cloud → Backup.

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3. Delete requests from Yandex ID account

If you are logged in to Yandex ID, your search history is saved on Yandex servers and synced across devices to delete it completely:

1. Open any browser and go to passport.yandex.ru/profile.
2. Sign in under your account.
3. Go to the Data Management section → History of search.
4. Select the period (All Time) and click Delete.

On Xiaomi phones with Yandex.Search preinstalled (e.g. Redmi A2+), this method may not work due to MIUI limitations.

• 🔄 Reinstall Yandex through Google Play (if possible).
• 📵 Turn off autocomplete search in keyboard settings (Settings) → Additionally. → Language and input → keyboard Gboard/MIUI → Auto-filling).

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4.Reset search tips in MIUI Launcher

Even after the Yandex history has been cleared, search prompts can appear in the MIUI search bar (on the home screen), which involves caching data in the shell to remove it:

1. Click the empty area on the home screen → select Launcher Settings.
2. Go to Search. → History of search.
3. Press Clear History.
4. For a complete reset, turn off Search Tips and reboot your phone.

Note: Some firmware (e.g. MIUI 13 for Redmi Note 11) may not have Search History, in which case only resetting the launcher settings will help:

Settings → Applications → Application Management → Launcher → Storage → Clear data

5. Radical Method: Removing Yandex Applications via ADB

If standard methods do not help, and pre-installed Yandex applications interfere (for example, on POCO X4 Pro), they can be removed via ADB. This requires enabling USB debugging and connecting to a PC.

Instructions:

1. Activate Developer Mode (7 times tap the MIUI version in Settings → About Phone).
2. Enable USB debugging in Settings → Additional → For developers.
3. Connect your phone to your PC and execute the command: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.yandex.browser For Yandex search engine use: adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.yandex.searchplugin

⚠️ Note: Removal of system applications may lead to errors in the work MIUI, especially on firmware for the Russian market (for example, Redmi 10 2022) RU). Before executing the command, create a backup through Settings → Additionally. → Backup and reset.

6. Alternative methods: disabling personalization and resetting

If you can’t delete the story, you can turn off saving it in the future:

• 🔍 In the browser Yandex: Settings → Confidentiality → Don't keep history.
• 🌐 On the Yandex account. ID: Data management → Search settings → Disable personalization.
• 📱 V MIUI: Settings → Confidentiality → Advertising → Resetting advertising ID (This will clear some of the search marks).

The last measure is to reset the phone to factory settings (Settings → Additional → Backup and Reset → Resetting).This will delete all data, including Yandex history, but will require reconfiguration of the device.

⚠️ Attention: On phones with MIUI for Russia (e.g. Redmi) 9A RU) After resetting, Yandex applications can recover automatically. To avoid this, before resetting, disable Autoinstall applications in Settings → Annexes → Application management → Settings (⚙️) → Auto-installation.

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Disabling sync with Yandex ID and Xiaomi Cloud is the only way to prevent history recovery after cleaning.

FAQ: Frequent questions about removing Yandex requests on Xiaomi