How to turn off notifications on Xiaomi: the full guide

Xiaomi’s current smartphones, which run on MIUI and HyperOS shells, offer users a huge amount of customization. However, the abundance of features sometimes causes the device to become annoying with constant beeps at the most inopportune moment. The question of how to turn off the notification sound on Xiaomi becomes especially relevant in the theater, in a meeting or during sleep.

Ignoring incoming messages can be dangerous, so it’s important to be able to fine-tune the system’s audio responses rather than simply putting your phone in silent mode. In this article, we’ll look at all the available ways to control sound, from fast switches to deep customizing system profiles.

Understanding the logic behind Xiaomi’s sound subsystem will allow you to create the perfect balance between awareness and silence, learning to turn off sound only for certain contacts or applications, leaving important calls audible.

Basic methods of fast switching off sound

The easiest way to silence a smartphone is to use physical buttons or notification curtains, and clicking on the volume button causes a slider, which often has a bell or gear icon next to it, and you click on it and you enter the profile management menu.

There are three main modes available here: Sound, No Sound, and Vibration. The No Sound mode completely disables all audio alerts in the system. Vibration mode replaces melodies with tactile recoil, which is convenient when the phone is in your pocket or in your bag.

• 🔔 Sound – all notifications are played according to the ringtone settings.
• 🔇 No sound – complete silence, the screen may not light up at notifications.
• 📳 Vibration – sound signals replaced by vibration.

An alternative way is through the control panel, swipe from top to bottom (one or two, depending on the settings) to open the control center, find the icon of the bell or the crossed-out speaker, activating this element instantly puts the device in the selected silence mode.

⚠️ Note: When switching to No Sound mode via a physical button or curtain, the alarm set in the standard Watch app usually continues to work, but the calendar or reminder beeps may be silenced.

Setting up the "Do Not Disturb" mode

Do Not Disturb is a more intelligent tool than a regular silent mode, allowing you to not just silence your phone, but create temporary exceptions for important events, and you can find it in the settings menu along the Settings path → Sound and vibration → Do not disturb.

Inside this menu, you can set up an automatic activation schedule, for example, your smartphone will switch to quiet mode every night from 23:00 to 07:00, which ensures that you do not forget to turn off the sound before going to bed.

Special attention should be paid to the section "Allow notifications", where you can create a list of favorite contacts, calls from which will take place even in silence, this is critical for emergency situations.

• 🌙 Schedule - automatic switching on time.
• ⭐ Favorites – skipping calls from contacts with an asterisk.
• 🔁 Repeated calls – if one number rings twice in 15 minutes, the call will be heard.

Also available in this section is the Hide Content feature, which will be activated and alerts will come in, the screen will light up, but the text of the message on the locked screen will not appear, which protects your privacy in public places.

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Use the Do Not Disturb feature to avoid missing an urgent call from your doctor or loved ones if they can’t get through the first time.

Sound management for individual applications

Often users want to leave the audio for instant messengers, but remove it for games or news aggregators. MIUI allows you to flexibly manage notifications for each installed application separately. To do this, go to Settings → Notifications and Status bar → Notification Management.

In the list that opens, select the app you want, like Instagram or a news portal, and here you'll see the Sound switch, and if you turn it off, you'll stop the app from making any signals, even if the phone's general profile is in Sound mode.

A more subtle setup is available inside the apps themselves. If you go to the software settings, look for the Notifications section. Often, you can divide the types of alerts: private messages, likes, ads. For advertising mailings, you can turn off the sound, leaving it for personal correspondence.

Remember that some system applications, such as Security or bootloader, can also make sounds. Their settings are in the system's general notification list.

Set up sound and multimedia profiles

Xiaomi smartphones have a separation of sound streams, and the volume of the call, the volume of the media, and the volume of the alarm are independently controlled, which means you can watch video without sound, but hear incoming calls, or vice versa.

To access the advanced settings, press the volume button and select Settings (cogs) or go to Settings → Sound and Vibration. Here you will see individual sliders for:

• 📞 Call - the volume of the incoming call.
• 🔔 Notification - sound SMS and system alerts.
• 🎵 Multimedia – sound in games, video and browser.
• ⏰ Alarm clock – the volume of alarm clock signals.

It's important to understand the difference between Notice and Multimedia. If you don't have YouTube sound working, lowering the Notice slider won't help, you need to check Multimedia. Conversely, if the alarm goes off quietly, look for the appropriate slider.

New versions of HyperOS now allow you to create your own sound profiles, so you can save a movie profile that turns off all sounds except the alarm clock and switch to it with a single touch.

⚠️ Warning: Resetting the sound settings to factory values can return the volume of all sliders to maximum.Be careful when using the reset function in the audio menu.

Use of quiet hours and schedules

Quiet Clock (or Sleep Mode in some firmware versions) is a powerful automation tool. Unlike the simple Do Not Disturb mode, quiet watches are often integrated with user activity analysis.

You can set this mode through the Security app or basic audio settings, and you set a time interval during which the phone is as quiet as possible, during which time the data transmission may be turned off, the screen will be lowered and all sounds blocked.

The thing about quiet hours is that they can automatically turn on Do Not Disturb mode and turn it off in the morning, and that eliminates the need for manual control every evening.

Solving the Notification Sound Problem

There are times when the settings are down and the sound doesn't work where it should, or vice versa, the phone is silent all the time. A common cause of the lack of sound is the activated Pocket mode in the screen settings, which blocks actions and sounds when the proximity sensor is taped.

It's also worth checking if a specific contact has a personalized "No Sound" tune set. Open the contact in the phone book, click "Change" and check the "Rington" box. If it's "No Sound," the phone won't ring even if the shared profile is active.

If the sound is gone after a system update, try clearing the Settings app cache or resetting the sound settings. In rare cases, restarting in Safe Mode helps to eliminate the impact of third-party equalizer apps.

• 🔍 Contact check – make sure the number is not blacklisted.
• 🧹 Cache cleanup – sometimes helps to reset temporary system files.
• 🔄 Reboot – a classic method of solving software failures.

In some cases, the sound may be blocked by connected Bluetooth devices. If the phone "thinks" it's connected to a headset that's in another room, the sound of notifications may go there.

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If the sound is suddenly gone, first check if the phantom Bluetooth device is connected and if the "Do Not Disturb" mode is set on schedule.