Xiaomi has been much more than a mobile phone manufacturer for some time now. Let’s not forget his experiments in other fields such as oil-free fryers; even something as crazy as a water pistol now bears the signature of the Chinese. What we must not forget in any way is that the brand became known to a large part of the scenes western thanks to MIUI.

The customization layer, which will soon reach version number 14, was for a long time a CyanogenMod fork that could be installed as an aftermarket ROM through flashable files. These files could be found on forums such as XDA-Developers.

A long time ago, in fact. So long ago that MIUI has become one more customization layer. We talk about it the same way we talk about Samsung’s One UI, and just like all the others, it has pros and cons. It seems that more of the latter than of the former, since users seem to dislike MIUI.

And users don’t like MIUI because…

We learn to configure MIUI on a Xiaomi mobile from the beginning / Image: Christian Collado

on reddit a long thread has been posted where a commenter asked himself this question: why does the Android Community not like MIUI in its vast majority? The answers have not been long in coming, most complaining about several common points. Here are condensed the most popular answers:

• Usually, MIUI has many bugs. For example, notifications that arrive late in some apps due to MIUI battery saving measures, gesture navigation does not work well at all and the cameras of apps like Instagram or TikTok do not work well due to MIUI rendering problems.
• Release of updates and security patches very slow compared to Google cycles.
• Many users concern about stability of the customization layer.
• In-system advertising and bloatware It takes up space without ever being used.
• High RAM consumptionwhich seems to increase even more with each new update, slowing down the proper functioning of the device.
• The look of MIUI and its insistence on copying the Apple one is not liked by the users of the Community.
• Its code deviates so much from the AOSP that developers must write specific code for MIUI.
• Dark mode is a real mess according to users.
• Unstable Bluetooth connectionseither with headphones, or with smartwatches.
• Can’t disable notifications for a specific app from the notifications tab.
• If the phone connects to a WiFi network without Internet, does not automatically switch to mobile data.
• fast charging animation does not show actual charge percentage.
• updates sometimes they “break” the operating system.

As you can see, the voices against MIUI have it very clear. Some say that many of these problems are exclusive to the Redmi series, but as a former user of a Xiaomi Mi Note 10 I can say that they are all very real in their devices regardless of the series. Xiaomi has a lot to fix in its software if it wants to be taken seriously at the high end.