How to Remove the Sound of Keys on Xiaomi: The Complete Guide

Modern Xiaomi smartphones feature an advanced multimedia system that activates audio signals by default every time you touch the screen. For many users, constant clicks when typing or clicking on icons become a source of irritation, especially in quiet rooms, in meetings or while watching videos. The problem is often exacerbated by the fact that the standard silent mode button does not always completely turn off the system sounds of the interface.

In this article, we will take a closer look at all the ways you can disable keyboards on devices with MIUI and HyperOS shells. You will learn how to manage individual volume channels, adjust the behavior of a virtual keyboard and get rid of intrusive clicks, while maintaining important notifications about calls and messages.

You need to understand that Android shares the volume of media, bells, alarms and system sounds. To achieve complete silence when working with the interface, it is not enough just to turn the overall volume - you need to point-tuning each setting through the engineering menu or standard settings sections.

Separation of volume channels in the Android system

The first step to silence is to understand the architecture of sound in the operating system. System sounds are a separate channel that is often ignored by users who are used to adjusting only the volume of music or conversation. In Xiaomi smartphones, these parameters are controlled in a separate menu, accessible through the side volume bar.

When you press the audio buttons, a slider appears on the screen, and if you press the down arrow or the gear icon next to the slider, the extended menu opens, and here you'll see several scales: for media, for calls, for alarms, and most importantly for our task, for system sounds, and this is the parameter that controls the clicks of the keyboard and the touches.

• 🔊 Media – regulates the volume in games, video players and browser.
• 🔔 Call – determines the volume of incoming calls and notifications.
• ⚙️ System – manages interface sounds, including keyboard sound and screen lock.
• ⏰ Alarm clock – independent volume channel for alarm clock signals.

If you keep the system sound slider down to a minimum, you'll instantly remove most of the interface clicks, but if the keyboard sound is still there, then the keyboard application settings take precedence over system-wide settings, which requires a deeper setup, which we'll discuss later.

⚠️ Note: When the system volume is reduced to zero, some applications may stop making sounds, for example, audio when printing screenshots or sound signals in a standard calculator.

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Shutting down system sounds completely through a volume slider is the fastest way, but it doesn’t always affect the settings of the keyboard app itself.

Customize sounds in the standard Gboard keyboard

Most Xiaomi users use Google’s standard Gboard keyboard, which has its own independent audio settings. Even if all sounds are turned off, Gboard can continue to make clicks, as this is built into the logic of the input application itself.

To access the settings, you need to go to the smartphone settings menu and find the language and input section. The path may vary slightly depending on the version of MIUI, but it usually looks like Settings → Additional settings → Language and input. Here you need to select Keyboard Management or click on Gboard immediately.

In the menu that opens, you'll find the Settings section (usually the gear icon) and go to Preferences. This is where the Sound switch is hidden when you press it, and when you put it inactive, you'll turn off the audio typing for that particular keyboard.

It is worth noting that in some versions of the shell, the sound setting can be duplicated in the main menu of the keyboard. If you do not find the right switch in your preferences, try clicking on the gear icon in the top prompt bar or on the menu icon (four squares or three dots), where you can also access the audio parameters.

Disable the sound in the keyboard Xiaomi (Mi Keyboard)

Owners of Redmi and POCO devices, as well as some Xiaomi models, may encounter the Mi Keyboard, which has a different settings than Gboard, and finding the right option can be difficult for inexperienced users, and the logic is similar: the application has its own priority of playing sounds.

To enter the settings, you need to call the keyboard in any text field, and then click on the settings icon (cog), which is usually located in the top toolbar of the keyboard. If there is no icon, you can pinch the space or click on the menu icon (often looks like four squares or three horizontal lines), where you will access the Settings section.

Inside the menu, you'll find the Sound and Vibration settings, or just Sound, and you'll have a slider or switch that controls the volume of the keys, and if you zero it, or if you turn off the switch, you'll stop clicking, and you can often adjust the duration of the vibration in this section, which is useful for haptic feedback without too much noise.

Touch control in the section "Sounds and vibrations"

In addition to the sound of the keyboard itself, Xiaomi has a separate setting that controls the sound of the screen as a whole, which is played when you press system buttons, switches in settings and other interface elements, and turning it off often solves the problem when the keyboard is silent, but the rest of the phone continues to click.

To access this feature, go to Settings and select Sounds and Vibrations. In the list of options, find Additional Settings or scroll down to the system sound block, there will be a Touch Sound (or Sound on touch) switch, which will make navigation on the menu silent.

It's important to distinguish between touch and touch. Often users turn off the sound, forgetting about the vibration, which can also be intrusive. In the same menu, you can turn off vibration when you touch, making the interaction with the screen completely quiet and imperceptible.

• 📱 Locking Sound – Clicking when the screen is turned on and off.
• 🔒 Unlocking sound – signal when you successfully enter a password or fingerprint.
• 🔋 Charging sound – notification of the connection of the power cable.
• 📸 Camera sound – shutter click (depends on the firmware region).

⚠️ Note: Some global versions of the firmware MIUI The camera sound cannot be turned off through standard settings due to the legal requirements of individual countries, in such cases only the use of third-party camera applications or the "No Sound" mode (if it blocks the camera and the camera) helps).

Specifics of the configuration in the shell of HyperOS

With the release of the new HyperOS shell, which is gradually replacing MIUI on new Xiaomi devices, the menu structure has changed. The principle has remained the same, but the layout of the elements has become more logical and grouped.

HyperOS has made sound control more visible, and when you press the volume buttons and open the full menu, you'll see a more detailed breakdown of the channels, and in addition, the Settings → Sound and Vibration section has a section called More Sound Effects, which collects all the minor sounds, including the system keyboard sound and the lock sound.

A critical change in HyperOS has been to integrate third-party audio management. Now, if you reduce system sound, some keyboards can automatically adjust to the general level, although manual tuning within the input application itself remains a priority.

The new shell also improves sound profiles, allowing you to switch between No Sound, Vibration and Normal modes faster through the control center (curtain), but you still need to go deep to remove the keys completely, since profiles often leave the system sounds active.

Third-party keyboards and additional methods

If standard methods don't work, or you use alternative input solutions like SwiftKey, Yandex Keyboard or Grammarly, the settings will be inside the apps themselves. The principle is the same for everyone: the gear icon on the keyboard → the "Sound" or "Audio" section → turn off the tap sound.

For advanced users, there is a method of disabling sounds through hidden menus or ADB-For example, you can turn off the system sound completely through console commands, but this can affect the operation of other functions.

If the keyboard sound came on suddenly after the update, try clearing the keyboard cache. To do this, go to Settings → Apps → All apps, find your keyboard, press Memory and select Clear Cache. This won't delete your dictionaries, but it can reset the wrong audio settings.

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Use Do Not Disturb mode with the Total Silence setting if you want to quickly silence all sounds, including the keyboard, during a meeting or movie.