How to Remove Vibration on Xiaomi Phone: The Complete Guide

Modern Xiaomi smartphones, including the Redmi and POCO brands, feature powerful vibrators that provide tactile feedback when typing or incoming calls. However, in certain situations, such as during a meeting, in a movie theater or just to save battery power, there is an urgent need to completely deactivate this functionality. Users often face difficulties, as settings are scattered across different menus of the MIUI system or the new HyperOS shell.

In this article, we will take a look at all the existing ways to turn off vibration on your device, learn how to manage tactile response for system actions, keyboards, and incoming calls, and look at both standard methods through the settings menu and deeper system parameters available through the engineering menu.

Global shutdown of vibration in sound settings

The most obvious and quick way to remove the intrusive vibration is to use the main audio settings menu, which will affect most system events, including calls and notifications, if they do not have individual settings. First, you need to go to the Settings section of your smartphone, which is usually represented by the gear icon on your desktop.

In the list of parameters that opens, you'll find the audio output item, which, depending on the firmware version, may be called Sound and Vibration or just Sound, and that's where the main levers of the device's tactile response are concentrated. Look at the sliders at the top of the screen or in the main switches block.

Here you'll see the Vibration switch, which is responsible for the overall tactile response of the system, and if you put it in an inactive position, you'll turn off the vibration for most applications and system events, but it's worth considering that some applications, such as instant messengers or games, may have their own internal settings that are more important than the system.

⚠️ Warning: A complete shutdown of vibration in this menu may cause you to miss important calls in a noisy place if the phone is lying in your bag or pocket.

Also available in this section is the ability to adjust the duration or intensity of the vibration, if your smartphone model supports this feature, not to turn off the function completely, but to make it less intrusive. Xiaomi users appreciate the flexibility of settings to adapt the device to any needs.

Tactile response of the Gboard keyboard and others

One of the most common causes of user irritation is the constant vibration when typing. The Gboard keyboard, which is installed by default on most Xiaomi devices, has its own settings, independent of the system. To remove this effect, you need to open any application that requires text input, such as Messages or Notes.

When the keyboard comes up, find the gear icon on the top bar, or press and hold the comma key to get into the settings menu. In the list that opens, you select Settings, then go to Preferences, and that's where the switch that controls tactical returns when you press is hidden.

Find the Vibration option when you press it and turn it off. The slider should shift left or turn gray. After that, the keyboard will stop vibrating every time you touch the screen, which will significantly reduce energy consumption and improve the comfort of printing. If you use third-party keyboards, for example, SwiftKey or Yandex.Key, the logic of actions will be similar, but the path to settings may differ.

• 🔍 Open the app where you can type to call the keyboard.
• ⚙️ Go to the keyboard settings through the gear icon.
• 📉 Find the "Preferences" or "Sound and Vibration" section".
• ❌ Deactivate the switch "Vibration when pressed".

It is worth noting that after updating the application, the settings may reset, so the procedure will have to be repeated. Owners of POCO and Redmi devices often note that even after turning off in the keyboard settings, easy response can be maintained due to the system settings of MIUI.

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If the standard keyboard settings menu doesn’t open, try pressing the space or comma key for a few seconds – this often triggers the context menu of quick settings.

Vibration management for calls and notifications

Separate vibration settings for incoming calls and messages allow you to flexibly manage notifications. You can leave your phone silent but feel the calls, or turn off everything except the alarm clock. To fine-tune it, you need to go back to the Sound and Vibration menu in the main settings of the system.

Here you'll find individual items, like Vibration on the call, Vibration on the notifications, and Vibration on the touch, each of which can be independently adjusted, for example, you can turn off the vibration when you touch the interface, but leave it for an incoming call so you don't miss an important conversation.

In addition, modern versions of HyperOS and MIUI 14 have the ability to customize vibration patterns for different contacts, which means you can create a Silence profile where all vibrations are turned off, and activate it with a single touch through the control panel, which is especially convenient at night.

Even if you've turned off the general vibration, the alarm can still vibrate if it's set up by its individual settings. Check this setting separately if you want total silence.

Disabling vibration of system buttons and interface

Many users don't know that navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen or gestures can also trigger tactile response. In Xiaomi devices, this is often called "Touch Vibration" or "Tactile Response." To remove this feature, you need to go to advanced audio settings.

In the Sound and Vibration menu, scroll down to the Additional or Vibration Settings section, and you can have a Vibration-touch switch that controls how the system responds to the Home, Back and Menu buttons on the screen, and disabling this option makes navigation completely silent and non-vibrational.

If you use full-screen gesture control, vibration can occur with swipes. In some versions of the firmware, there is a separate option called Sign Vibration, which makes moving around the interface smoother and less intrusive, and this is especially true for people with high sensitivity to tactile sensations.

⚠️ Attention: Turning off button vibrations may be disorienting for users who are used to feeling confirmation of each click.

Also worth checking is the special settings. In Advanced Settings -> Special. features can have their own vibration settings for people with hearing or vision impairments. Make sure that there are no functions that duplicate system notifications.

Hidden settings and engineering menu for advanced

For those who want to gain full control of the device, there is the MIUI Engineering Menu, a hidden section designed to test equipment where you can control the vibration motor at a deep level. To get there, open the Phone app and type ##6484##.

In the CIT menu that opens, you need to find a vibration item, which can be called Vibrator or Vibration, and you can not only test the engine, but in some cases, change the parameters of the engine, but be careful: the wrong settings can lead to malfunctioning of the system.

Another method is the use of ADB-commands to turn off system sounds and vibrations at the OS level. This requires connecting the smartphone to the computer and having drivers installed:

adb shell settings put system haptic_feedback_enabled 0

This command forcibly disables the tactile response of the system, even if it is on in the settings. To get it back to normal, you need to replace 0 with 1 at the end of the command, which is effective when standard settings are "glutched" or reset.

Solving problems with spontaneous vibration

Sometimes users are faced with a situation where the phone vibrates for no apparent reason, even if all settings are turned off, this can be a sign of malfunction or application conflict, first of all, you need to analyze which applications have permission to use vibration.

Go to Settings -> Apps -> All Apps. Select a suspicious app, go to Notifications and check if it ticks "Vibration." Often junk apps or games can cause phantom vibrations, and removing such programs solves the problem.

If software methods do not help, it may be the hardware: sticking the power button, getting moisture or damaging the plume of the vibrator can cause chaotic vibration. In such cases, it is recommended to contact the authorized service center Xiaomi for diagnosis.

• 📱 Check out the list of recently installed apps.
• 🛡️ Scan the device with antivirus for malware.
• 💧 Make sure there is no moisture in the connectors.
• 🔄 Reset the settings to factory if the problem is not solved.

In rare cases, calibrating sensors through an engineering menu helps, but it's more of an exception, and most often the problem lies in a particular application that aggressively uses notifications.

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In 90% of cases, spontaneous vibration is caused by a specific app with intrusive notifications, not a phone breakdown.

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