How to Clean Your Keyboard on Xiaomi: 7 Proven Ways

Keyboard on Xiaomi smartphones eventually begins to “glut”: slows down, incorrectly prompts words or completely stops responding to clicks. Most often, the problem lies not in the hardware, but in cache cache, update conflicts or system software failures. In this article, we will analyze all possible ways to clean the keyboard, from basic to radical, including resetting to factory settings.

Xiaomi devices are different in that they use several types of keyboards, like the standard MIUI Keyboard, Google's Gboard, and third-party solutions like SwiftKey, and the cleaning methods are different, so we'll look at each case separately, and if you notice that the keyboard is slow to open, forgets frequently used words, or gives you input errors, this will help you get it back to normal.

1. Clean the keyboard cache through Android settings

The easiest and safest way is to reset the keyboard app cache, which will not delete your personal data (such as saved words), but will eliminate temporary files that may be causing lags. MIUI Keyboard, Gboard and other keyboards.

How to do this:

1. Open the settings on your Xiaomi smartphone.
2. Go to the Appendix section → Application management.
3. In the search bar, type the name of the keyboard (for example, Gboard or MIUI Keyboard).
4. Click on the app, then select Warehouse.
5. Slip the button Clear the cache.

If the problem persists after cleaning the cache, try also click Clear Data – this will reset all user keyboard settings (including the words and themes you have studied).

2. Reset keyboard settings to factory

If cleaning the cache doesn't work, the next step is to completely reset the keyboard settings, which will return all settings to the "post-installed" state, but save system files, and this method works for all versions of MIUI (including MIUI 14 and HyperOS).

Instructions for MIUI Keyboard:

1. Open any field to enter text (for example, in Notes).
2. Touch the badge. ⚙️ Settings on the keyboard.
3. Go to Additional Settings → Reset settings.
4. Confirm the action by pressing OK.

For Gboard:

1. Start Settings → System → Language and input → Virtual keyboard.
2. Select Gboard → Reset settings.
3. Confirm the reset.

After that, the keyboard will reboot and all personal settings (including themes, gestures, and dictionary) will be deleted. If you use cloud sync (for example, through a Google account), the data can be restored after re-entry.

Take screenshots of the current keyboard settings

Export a custom dictionary (if you have such an option)

Remember the included input languages

Check synchronization with your account Google/Mi-->

3. Removal and reinstallation of the keyboard

If the reset doesn't work, the keyboard can be completely removed and re-installed, and this method is effective when an application is damaged due to an incorrect update or conflict with other programs.

For Gboard and third-party keyboards:

1. Go to Settings → Applications → Application Management.
2. Find Gboard (or another keyboard) and click Delete.
3. Confirm the uninstallation.
4. Install the keyboard again from Google Play.

For MIUI Keyboard (Xiaomi system keyboard):

• 🔧 It cannot be deleted in the standard way, but you can disable it in Settings. → System system → Language and input → Virtual keyboard and then activate again.
• 🔄 If the keyboard is not working properly, try updating it through Settings. → The phone. → System update (sometimes patches come with patches) MIUI).
• 🛠️ In extreme cases, resetting the phone to factory settings will help (more on this below).

4. Clearing data through Safe Mode (Safe Mode)

If the keyboard is buggy due to conflict with other applications (for example, launchers or optimizers), it is worth checking its operation in safe mode, in this mode, all third-party programs are disabled, and you can determine exactly whether the software is to blame.

How to run Safe Mode on Xiaomi:

1. Press the power button before the turn off menu appears.
2. Press and hold your finger on the option to turn off (or reboot depending on the model).
3. Confirm the transition to safe mode when the request appears.

In Safe Mode:

• 🔍 Check if the keyboard is working properly. If so, there's a problem in one of the apps installed.
• 📱 If the keyboard is still lagging, the system or hardware itself is to blame.
• 🔄 To exit Safe Mode, simply restart your phone.

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If the keyboard works fine in Safe Mode, remove apps one at a time, starting with the last ones installed, to find the culprit.

5. Export and import of the user dictionary

Before resetting or deleting a keyboard, you should keep a custom vocabulary — especially if you've added specialized terms, slang, or names — and Gboard and MIUI Keyboard do this differently.

For Gboard:

1. Open Settings → System → Language and input → Virtual Keyboard → Gboard.
2. Go to the dictionary. → User-generated dictionary.
3. Press on. ⋮ → Export and save the file (e.g. Google Drive).

For MIUI Keyboard:

• 📤 The dictionary export function is not in the standard settings:
• 🔄 Temporarily switch to Gboard, transfer frequently used words there, and then export.
• 📝 Manually copy important terms into a text file.

Once the keyboard is reset or reinstalled, the dictionary can be imported back (in Gboard this is done through the same User Dictionary → Import section).

6 Radical methods: resetting the phone to factory settings

If none of these methods work, the last option is to completely reset your phone, which will delete all the data, including apps, photos and settings, so you should only use it as a last resort.

How to reset Xiaomi to factory settings:

1. Back up your data via Settings → About Phone → Backup or manually copy important files to your PC.
2. Go to Settings → Additional → Resetting settings.
3. Choose to erase all data and confirm the action.
4. After restarting, set your phone as new.

⚠️ Warning: Reset deletes all data, including photos, messages and installed apps. If the phone is linked to a Mi Account, after reset, you may need to enter a login and password to unlock (Mi Cloud Lock function).

Once reset, the keyboard will work out of the box. If the problem persists, this may indicate a hardware failure (such as a touch screen malfunction) - in which case, contact the service center.

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Resetting to factory settings is a last resort. Before you do that, be sure to check the keyboard in Safe Mode and try reinstalling it.

7. Additional Tips for Keyboard Optimization

To make the keyboard on Xiaomi work quickly and without failure, follow these recommendations:

• 📱 Clean the keyboard cache regularly (once every 1-2 months).
• 🔄 Update the keyboard app to the latest version.
• 🚫 Do not install memory optimizers or “cleaners” – they often conflict with system processes.
• 📶 If the keyboard is lagging when connecting to the mobile Internet, check the settings APN your operator.
• 🔋 Watch the battery: at levels below 15%, the system may force performance limits, which affects the input speed.

If you are using MIUI Keyboard, try disabling unnecessary features:

1. Go to the keyboard settings (icon) ⚙️ input panel).
2. Turn off Text Prediction, Auto Replacement, or Gestures if they cause delays.
3. Try to change the theme of design to standard (sometimes custom themes slow down the input).

⚠️ Note: Some Xiaomi models (e.g. Redmi Note 12 or X-ray) POCO X5) The keyboard may be slowing down due to the active Game Turbo function. → Special facilities → Game Turbo.

FAQ: Frequent questions about keyboard cleaning on Xiaomi