How to Disable Ads in MIUI on your Xiaomi or Redmi Smartphone | News 4 Social

This should be your priority as this method can solve many annoying advertising problems that are present on MIUI. Xiaomi doesn’t want you to turn it off and has tried to make the process a bit frustrating, but with patience, you can kill the MSA (MIUI System Ads) application.

You’ll need to make sure your smartphone is running MIUI and is connected to a Wi-Fi or mobile network before doing so. Unfortunately, you are unable to do this offline.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Select Passwords & Security.
3. Under Authorization & Revocation, you can search for MSA and slide the switch button to disable it.
4. Now, wait for 10 seconds, then select Revoke.
5. You may receive a message saying that it cannot revoke the authorization. Keep on trying until the system allows you to.

This trick should eliminate most of the ads. But these are only the “system” ads in the MIUI interface, other ads may remain in some of the native Xiaomi applications and will have to be disabled individually. Isn’t that great?

Now that you have revoked MSA’s authorization, you can start disabling the individual recommendations that MIUI will send to you. To disable personal advertising recommendations, which prevent Xiaomi from recording your usage habits, and collecting your data, follow the steps below.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Select Privacy Protection.
3. Under Privacy, search for Ad Services and then Personalised Ad Recommendations.
4. Deactivate the Personalised Ad Recommendations and you should no longer see ads based on your behavioral data or personal information.

Disabling ads in Mi Browser and Mi Security applications is relatively simple from here onwards. Go to your Settings menu and follow the steps below.

Disable the MIUI Mi Browser ads:

1. Open the Mi Browser, and go to the Profile tab on the bottom right-hand side.
2. In the Profile tab, access Settings by tapping the “gear” (⚙️) icon in the upper right corner.
3. Select Advanced.
4. Uncheck the Show ads option.

Disable ads in the MIUI Security app:

1. Launch the Security application and go to Settings.
2. Under Settings, disable the Receive recommendations option.

To disable ads in your Xiaomi Music and Mi Video applications, the process is largely the same as above, with only a few adjustments required for Mi Video.

1. Launch the Mi Music application and go to Settings in the top right corner.
2. Then go to Advanced Settings and disable the Receive recommendations and Show Ads options.

In MIUI 13 and later, however, it is no longer possible to disable recommendations since in order to do so, you have to waive the acceptance of the app’s TOS. By doing so, Mi Video will be unusable.

To disable MIUI ads in the file manager and downloads folder, you need to follow a rather similar but also counter-intuitive procedure, since Xiaomi would like you not to do so.

To disable ads in the Files application:

The easiest way to get rid of ads in the MIUI Themes application is to go directly into the application itself and disable it. Follow the steps below.

1. Open the MIUI Themes application and go to Profile.
2. Search for Settings, then disable Recommendations.

Let’s be honest, it’s a tedious affair that really ruins the user experience. But once it’s done, you’ll be free of advertising on MIUI 13 and later versions, and you can enjoy your Xiaomi smartphone without being bombarded by ads.

Did you find these tips useful? Let us know if you’ve found an easier way to disable ads in MIUI in the comments below.