Want to deep cleanse your Xiaomi smartphone to get rid of annoying ads? Follow these steps.

Xiaomi is one among the most important smartphone brands in India and is understood for its budget smartphones. While its own custom skin supported Android 11, the MIUI 12, comes with some notable features, it also contains ads that are sprinkled all throughout. During the launch of MIUI 12, Xiaomi did mention the presence of a one-tap choice to disable system-wide ads, but that feature was missing within the global build. If you’re a MIUI 12 user and need to offer your smartphone a deep cleanse, here’s how you’ll roll in the hay .

Before you begin following the steps during this guide, we recommend you to double-check the version of MIUI on your smartphone. If you are still running previous versions of MIUI, we’ve already made guides for them. Here’s the step-by-step process for MIUI 11, MIUI 10 and MIUI 9. Another thing to notice here is that we used a Redmi 9 Power for this tutorial, so your mileage may vary.

HIGHLIGHTS

• There’s no one-tap solution to get rid of ads from MIUI 12
• Disabling msa will remove most of the ads
• For a deeper cleanse, you’ll need to disable ads from individual apps

Disabling the MSA process

To begin our process of disabling ads, we’ll need to stop a couple of things at source. one among these is MSA or MIUI System Ads, which is one among the most important reasons for seeing ads available apps. To disable it:

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Navigate to Passwords & security > Authorisation & revocation.
3. Here you will have to disable msa.
4. After this, scroll down a touch and disable GetApps also .
5. You’ll get a 10-second warning message, asking you if you’re sure you would like to try to to it.
6. After the countdown, press Revoke. just in case it doesn’t allow you to toggle it off within the first go, (which should not be the case), try it again till it’s off.
7. Even if you reboot your phone, MSA should still be disabled.
   MSA MIUI 12 MSA

More changes to prevent seeing ads in MIUI 12While that’ll lookout of most ads, you’ll still do some tweaks to form sure you catch ‘em all.

1. In the same Password & security sub-menu, attend Privacy.
2. Then tap Ad services and disable Personalised ad recommendations. this may basically close up data collection to offer you relevant ads.

Turn off ads from Downloads app

1. Open the Downloads app.
2. Tap the hamburger menu > Settings.
3. Disable the toggle for Show recommended content. you will get a prompt here also , just select okay.

Turn off ads from File Manager app

1. Open File Manager app.
2. Tap the hamburger menu on the highest left.
3. Go to About > disable Recommendations.

Turn off ads from the Music app

1. Open the Music app.
2. Head over to the hamburger menu > Service and settings
3. Select Advanced settings > Receive recommendations.
4. You can also disable other recommendations here like Online recommendations on startup and Song recommendations. Do note that disabling this may only close up data collection from this app.

Turn off ads from Security app

1. Open the safety app
2. Tap on the Settings button > Receive recommendations.
3. Turn off ads from Themes app

Open the Themes app.

1. Go to My page > Settings
2. Disable the toggle for Recommendations.
3. promoted apps MIUI promoted ads

Turn off Promoted apps
Some default folders like Tools and More Apps tend to point out you Promoted apps once you open them. To disable them:

1. Open Tools and More Apps folder > long-press on the name of the folder, so as to rename it.
2. Turn the toggle off for Promoted apps.