How to remove Advertisements from Miui and Xiaomi apps

Tech-Simplified
3 min readSep 22, 2018

Xiaomi has recently introduced advertisement in miui 9 and 10

Xiaomi has admited it does introduce Ads in miui and other xiaomi apps, but it also provides methods to turn them off

In this post i will be guiding you on how to remove Advertisements from Miui and other xiaomi apps

Disabling Ad Authorization

  • Settings > Additional settings > Authorization and Revocation
  • Disable access for ‘msa’

Note : Revocation might fails a few times, please try few more times and it will work

Disabling Ads in file manager

  • File manager settings > About
  • Turn off ‘Recommedations’

Disabling Ads in Security app

  • Security app > settings
  • Turn off “Receive Recommedations”

Disabling Ads in miui browser

Miui browser have access to notification shade, it also injects Ads in notifications

  • Miui browser settings > Advanced > Top sites order
  • Turn off “Receive Recommedations”

Disabling Ads in Miui Downloader

This app also injects Ads in notification

  • Go to Tools folder, where generaly clock and calculator app recides
  • Launch Downloader or Download manager
  • Downloader settings

Turn off ‘Show recommended content’

Disabling Ads in Mi Music app

  • Music app, go to Settings > Advanced Settings and turn off ‘Receive Recommendations’.

Disabling Advertising Tracker

If you don’t want Xiaomi to track your habits, which help them to send personalized Ads follow these steps

  • Open the Settings app and navigate to Additional Settings > Privacy > Ad Services and disable ‘Personalized Ad Recommendation’

Note : Xiaomi uses word ‘Recommedation’ instead of ‘advertisement’

So if any mentioned steps doesn’t work for you because of different UI, please find ‘Recommedation’ in the app and turn it off

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