How to turn off messages in the background on Xiaomi

Modern Xiaomi smartphones running MIUI shells or the new HyperOS are famous for their functionality, but sometimes excessive system activity can annoy users. One of these manifestations is the constant operation of applications in the background, which is often accompanied by pop-up notifications, even if you close the program, which is not only distracting, but also significantly affects the battery life of the device.

Owners often notice that after the closure of messengers or news aggregators, notifications continue to come and the battery runs out faster than usual. Android, the underlying firmware Xiaomi, allows applications to work in hidden mode to receive data in real time. However, flexible security and energy saving settings allow you to fully control this process. In this article, we will discuss in detail how to limit background activity and remove unnecessary messages.

It’s worth noting that completely disabling background processes can cause you to stop receiving important alerts from messengers like Telegram or WhatsApp before the app opens. So it’s important to find a balance between the purity of notifications and functionality. We’ll look at both standard system tools and hidden settings for advanced users who want to achieve maximum silence.

Analysis of application background activity

Before we start taking any drastic measures, we need to understand what programs are consuming resources and generating notifications. The MIUI has a powerful monitoring tool built in that shows detailed battery usage statistics. This is where the noise culprits often hide. When you go to the menu, you'll see a list of applications sorted by the time you're working in the background.

Notice the applications that you rarely use but are high on your energy consumption list, often games, stores or news feeds that continuously update content, and the back-end activity of these programs can be limited without losing their core functionality when manually run.

System services may also appear on this list, but should be treated with caution. Disabling critical processes can lead to unstable smartphone performance. Focus on third-party software that you installed yourself. Visual analysis of the charge flow schedule will help determine when the application is most active.

• 📱 Open Settings and go to Battery and Performance.
• 📊 Click on the gear icon or select Statistics to view the detailed report.
• 🔍 Study the list of applications, paying attention to the time of work in the background.
• ⚙️ Select suspicious programs to set up restrictions later.

⚠️ Note: Do not try to disable system processes with names like MIUI Daemon or System UI, This can cause a cyclical reboot of the device.

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Accurately determining the source of background activity is the first and most important step to optimizing the smartphone.

Set up notifications for specific applications

The easiest way to remove annoying messages is to set up notification categories for each app separately. Android provides granular control, allowing only certain types of alerts to be turned off, leaving important messages active. This is especially true for social networks, which often send advertising notifications about “new features.”

You don't have to open every app to access these settings, you just need to press the desktop icon and select the app information item. In the menu that opens, look for the Notifications section, and you'll see switches for different categories, from private messages to marketing emails.

It is recommended to disable categories related to advertising, recommendations and news, leaving only private messages and calls active. You should also pay attention to setting the importance of notifications. If you put the application in No Sound or No Show mode, it will stop waking the screen and making sounds, remaining only in the notification curtain.

• 🔔 Press the app icon and select About app.
• 📝 Go to the Notifications menu and explore the category list.
• 🚫 Turn off switches in front of advertising and news categories.
• 🔇 Change the notification type to “No Sound” for less important applications.

It is important to understand that some applications may ignore system settings if they are given special permissions, so this method is effective in conjunction with the limitation of background work, which will be discussed below, and regular revision of these settings after application updates helps to maintain the clean interface.

Limiting background work through battery settings

The most effective way to remove messages in the background is to use Xiaomi’s built-in power saving mechanism, which allows you to force the app to stop working as soon as you turn it down or lock the screen, ensuring that the program cannot connect to the network and retrieve new data.

To implement this method, go to the battery settings, find the desired application in the list and select an energy saving strategy. The optimal choice is the “No Limits” mode for instant delivery only, and the “Save Battery” or “Limit Background Activity” mode for all other programs. In new versions of HyperOS, these settings can be hidden in the “Activity Control” submenustment.

Using tight restrictions can result in files in messengers not being downloaded automatically, and music interrupted when the screen is off. So use this method selectively. Perfect for games, navigators and applications that you only use in active mode.

There is also a global setup that allows you to prevent startups from running in the background for all newly installed applications, which prevents the accumulation of “junk” processes over time, but manually checking critical applications is still necessary, since automatic algorithms sometimes work too aggressively.

Use of Do Not Disturb Mode and Schedules

If your goal is not to block apps completely, but to eliminate noise temporarily, the ideal solution is to do not disturb mode, which, unlike a simple silent mode, blocks the display of notifications on the lock screen and turns off audio signals, but allows important contacts to break through the filter.

In Xiaomi smartphones, this tool has advanced schedule settings, so you can set up automatic turn on at night or during meetings, synchronizing with the calendar, which will save you from having to manually turn on and off silence every day.

Special attention should be paid to setting exceptions, which can be set in the Do Not Disturb menu to indicate which apps or contacts may ignore the mode, such as calls from family will pass, and messages from work chats will come silently, without disturbing you until the morning, this approach maintains a balance between accessibility and personal space.

• 🌙 Open the Settings. → Sound and vibration → Don't disturb.
• ⏰ Set up an activation schedule, for example, from 23:00 to 07:00.
• 📞 Add important contacts to the emergency exception list.
• 🔕 Activate the “Hide Content” option for full privacy on the lock screen.

Comparison of methods of blocking background processes

The choice of method depends on how radically you are willing to limit the functionality of the device. Each of the methods examined has its pros and cons, which must be considered when setting up. Below is a table that helps you choose the best strategy for your needs.

As you can see from the table, the most balanced approach is a combination of methods, such as using Do Not Disturb mode at night and limiting background activity for heavy applications during the day, which allows you to maintain the autonomy of the device without losing touch with the important one.

Keep in mind that the constant forced shutdown of apps can affect the speed of their launch in the long run.The Android system is optimized to store frequently used applications in memory, and constant restarts can consume more power than their background work in a frozen state.

Additional tools and hidden settings

For advanced users who want to gain full control of the system, there are additional tools. MIUI has a Security app that includes a Memory Cleanup feature, which allows you to automatically close applications when you lock the screen, effectively removing them from the background.

It is also worth mentioning the possibility of using ADB-commands to disable system components that generate advertising and background processes, however, this method requires a connection to the computer and the presence of certain knowledge, since an error can lead to the inoperability of the interface.

Another effective but rarely used tool is to disable autostart. In the application settings, find Autostart and disable it for all programs except instant messengers, which will prevent the application from starting immediately after the phone is turned on.

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Use the “Extended Energy Saving” function only in emergency cases, as it turns your smartphone into a regular “caller”, blocking all background processes.

⚠️ Note: Using third-party memory cleaners (Clean Master and similar) on Xiaomi often does more harm than good, as they conflict with the built-in optimization system MIUI.

Regularly updating the system to the latest version of HyperOS or MIUI is also important, as Xiaomi engineers are constantly improving the algorithms for managing background processes.

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