Modern Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones are equipped with a rich functionality that by default includes many audible notifications. This can annoy users who prefer absolute silence or use the gadget in noisy places where vibration is more important than melodies. Often owners are faced with a situation where the standard switching of the volume slider to zero does not solve the problem completely, leaving intrusive keyboard clicks or system signals.
With MIUI and the new HyperOS, audio settings are divided into many subcategories, allowing you to flexibly manage each type of sound. You can leave the media volume to watch video, but completely eliminate system clicks and lock sounds. Understanding the structure of the menu is necessary to properly customize the device to your needs without losing functionality.
In this guide, we’ll take a look at all the possible ways to remove the sound on a Xiaomi phone, from simple button actions to deep customization of the engineering menu. You’ll learn to create your own audio profiles that will automatically activate at the right time, ensuring that your smartphone is used comfortably in all conditions.
Basic volume control and operating modes
The most obvious, but not always effective, way is to use physical buttons. Pressing the volume rocker causes a pop-up menu where you can adjust the sound level, but if you just lower the slider to a minimum, the phone can go into silent mode, turning off incoming calls, which is not always the user's goal.
To fine-tune it, you have to click on the tri-point or the volume menu setting icon, and you have individual sliders open for media, alarms, calls and notifications. It's important to understand that System Sound slider is responsible for the clicks on the interface, not the media content, and if you turn it off, you'll remove most of the annoying signals.
Owners of Android 11 and higher devices may experience a change in the logic of the buttons. Now, a long press on the volume button puts the smartphone in Do Not Disturb mode, not just in silent mode. This is an important difference, since Do Not Disturb mode blocks not only sounds, but also vibrations and light indications.
- 🔇 Silent mode – turns off all sounds except the alarm clock, but leaves the vibration active by default.
- 🌙 Do Not Disturb – Blocks sounds, vibrations, and light notifications, only missing selected contacts.
- 📳 Vibration mode – replaces all sound signals with vibration, which is convenient in movies or meetings.
Disabling the interface and keyboard sounds
Even at zero volume, many users still hear the characteristic clicks when typing or tapping on the screen, which are system sounds that are controlled separately from media volume, and to remove them, you need to go to the audio and vibration settings section.
In the Settings → Sound and vibration menu, you should find the option “Additional settings” or immediately look for the switches at the bottom of the list. We are interested in the options “Lock Sound”, “Tap Sound” and “Dial Sound”, disabling these functions will make interaction with the screen completely silent.
The keyboard requires special attention. Even if the system sounds are disabled, the keyboard application (whether it's Gboard or MIUI Keyboard) can make its own sounds. To eliminate them, you need to go to the settings of the keyboard itself, usually available through the gear icon on the word prediction bar or in the language and input settings menu.
☑️ Checklist of complete silence of the interface
⚠️ Note: After the firmware update MIUI Some of the interface's audio settings may be reset to factory values, and it's recommended that you check these parameters after each major system update.
Set up sound profiles and schedules
Xiaomi devices offer a powerful automation tool called sound profiles, which allows you to not manually change your settings every time you come to the office or go to bed, and it will change the behavior of your smartphone at a given time or when conditions are met.
To create a profile, go to Settings → Sound and Vibration → Sound Profiles. Here you can create a new profile, such as Work or Movie, and adjust the settings for it: remove all sounds, leave only vibration for important contacts or turn on Do Not Disturb mode.
Planned on and off (or sleep mode) allows you to automatically turn on silent mode at night, which not only eliminates random notifications, but also helps save battery power, since the screen does not light up from incoming messages.
| Parameter | Description of action | Recommended value |
|---|---|---|
| Media volume | Video and game sound | If you wish, |
| Loudness of the call | Incoming challenges | 0 (or Vibration) |
| Volume of notifications | Messages from messengers | 0 |
| Loudness of the system | Interface clicks | 0 (Off) |
Secret profile function
Managing Sound in Applications and Notifications
Often, the source of annoying sounds is not system settings, but specific applications. Messengers, games and social networks have their own notification priorities, which can overlap the general settings of the phone, and to remove the sound of a particular application, you need to change the notification category.
Go to Settings → Notifications and Status bar → Notification management. Select the desired application (such as Telegram or WhatsApp). Inside you will see a list of categories: Messages, Calls, Groups. By clicking on the category, you can turn off the sound separately, leaving only the visual display of the banner.
Special attention should be paid to charging sounds. Some design themes or third-party launchers may have audio written when you connect the cable, and you can remove it by changing the theme to the standard or turning off the event sounds in the theme settings.
- 📱 Messengers – require individual configuration within the Android notification menu.
- 🎮 Games – often have a separate slider of music and effects in their internal settings.
- 📧 Mail – the sound of the arrival of the letter can be turned off by selecting the “No Sound” profile for a specific account.
If you use third-party launchers like Nova Launcher or Microsoft Launcher, check their settings.They may have their own sound circuits for swipes and actions that are not controlled by Xiaomi's system.
Special features and sounds for the hearing impaired
The special features section hides features that can create soundtracks even when the main sound is turned off, which is designed to help people with visual or hearing impairments, but these features can interfere with the average user.
Go to Settings → Additional settings → Special features. Check the sections “Audibility Improvement” and “Visualization.” Here you can have mono sound, channel balance or gesture audibles active, and disabling these functions ensures that the phone does not emit any extra signal.
You should also check the TalkBack or Voice Assistant settings, and if these functions are activated randomly, the phone will voice your every action, which can be removed by quickly pressing the volume buttons (if configured) or through the special features menu.
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Use the Silence widget on your desktop. Add the Sound Profiles widget to the home screen for instantaneous switching to silent mode with one touch, without going into the deep settings menu.
Problem Solving: When the sound doesn't turn off
There are times when Xiaomi phone continues to make sounds despite all the settings, this can be due to a software failure or application conflict, and it is recommended to reboot the device to reset the temporary errors of audio drivers.
If the problem persists, check if the sound is in safe mode. Load the phone in safe mode (clamping the off button and selecting the appropriate item). If there are no sounds in safe mode, then the third-party application is to blame. Delete the recently installed programs one by one, checking the result.
In rare cases, resetting audio to factory settings helps, and you can do this through the reset menu or just create a new user on the system and check the behavior of the sound there, and if that doesn't help, you may need to flash the device.
⚠️ Warning: Do not use third-party apps to “amplify” or “modify” sound if your goal is silence.They often implement their services that can play ad sounds or system errors by ignoring the volume settings of Android.
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Completely shutting down the audio on Xiaomi requires a comprehensive approach: system settings, keyboards and individual application settings must be checked separately.