MIUI 12 Is Official With New Navigation Gestures, Cleaner UI & More

Xiaomi has announced a new version of its Android OS today, MIUI 12. The company announced it during a printing result in China, forth with a Chinese version of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite.

This new version of MIUI really brings quite a few changes. It is not a huge revamp of Xiaomi'due south Android skin / OS, though, so keep that in mind. This is more of a refinement than anything.

MIUI 12 brings new animations, brand new navigation gestures, the UI itself looks flatter now, dark way 2.0 has been added besides, as well as new privacy features, and then on. Do annotation that this is a Chinese version of MIUI 12, though, merely most of these features will be the same in the global variant as well.

New animations

Let's talk virtually animations beginning. The company touched upon pretty much every animation in MIUI xi in order to improve it in MIUI 12. The company actually claims that the animations are on par with smooth transitions in iOS, claims XDA.

The company improved pretty much everything, from app launching and endmost animations, to screen rotations, and opening the recents menu. The aforementioned goes for a new charging animation, battery stats, and so on.

UI pattern changes

The whole interface at present looks a tad bit better. Information technology looks flatter and cleaner in MIUI 12. This new version of MIUI brings wider spaces between different pieces of text-based information, and the same goes for images. It also comes with a brighter white background, if you're using a calorie-free style, of course.

New Android 10-similar navigation gestures

MIUI introduced navigation gestures quite some time ago. In MIUI 12, however, Xiaomi is changing things upwardly a bit. The company has opted to introduce Android 10-similar navigation gestures. In other words, you'll get a apartment line on the lesser of the display. Swiping up will take y'all on a home screen, swiping upward and holding will launch the recents card.

If you lot swipe from right to left or left to right, you'll be able to switch between your recent applications. In other words, it will work just as stock Android x navigation gestures work, every bit it seems similar that'southward what nigh people prefer.

Dark Mode two.0

Xiaomi has introduced some dark mode improvements in MIUI 12 as well. MIUI 12's invert color algorithm is really based on Lab, HSV color infinite, and the changed colour adaptation is now wider and more natural.

The phone will automatically accommodate the dissimilarity if you're using dark mode. It will also adjust font weight dynamically in order to reduce glare and mistiness. MIUI 12 will restore normal font weight in low-cal style, in order to make your reading more than comfortable.

AOD & alive wallpapers

The company has added quite a few live wallpapers and AOD screen in MIUI 12. These are vastly inspired by landscapes of the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. The live wallpaper zooms in from a infinite-level view to an aerial view just a few hundred meters in a higher place the surface when yous unlock your telephone. This is a rather interesting spin on a live wallpaper, that's for sure.

Motion picture-in-picture & multi-window

MIUI 12 will deliver floating chat windows on your device, for full-screen apps similar games and video players. The company has also added various ways in which floating windows and notifications can be expanded. Multi-window has been improved all around, and you can see it in action in the provided video, the same goes for many other features we've talked about.

Privacy improvements

Xiaomi has added quite a few privacy-oriented features in MIUI 12. Those features are called Flare, Spinous Wire, and Mask System. Those features have cleared the 'Android Enhanced Privacy Protection Test', which are great news.

Flare keeps a lot of all permissions and sensitive data accessed past apps. It volition notify you when needed in different colors, depending on what aspect of the phone a particular app is using. Barbed Wire works like a location permission in Android. It does come with a number of boosted options, though.

Mask Organisation prevents untrusted apps from getting access to crucial information on your smartphone. It also allows yous to become a virtual identity to spoof any app that is trying to capture your information without permission.

AI calling & fitness features

The visitor has too added something called 'AI Calling', which is like to Google'due south screen calling. Information technology is designed for people with hearing disabilities. New fitness features accept also been added to MIUI 12. Though nosotros don't accept all the details regarding that only yet.

MIUI 12 beta starts rolling out today, though only to Chinese devices. The get-go circular of stable updates volition arrive in June, once again, to Chinese phones. We're still not sure when volition Xiaomi denote a global variant of MIUI 12.