Eligible Devices for MIUI 12.5 Update – new features and more

MIUI, one of the world’s most common mobile operating systems, is Xiaomi’s favorite. Although the news about MIUI 13 has recently been published, MIUI 12 has not been forgotten. Xiaomi is creating MIUI 12.5 pursuant to the announcement made today. This update contains big developments and optimizations and prepares MIUI 13 for Xiaomi users.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});Tests for MIUI 12.5 commenced today, according to the announcement made by Xiaomi. The closed Beta version will be suspended for a time starting from 12.14 in order for engineers to better concentrate on this update.
New features in MIUI 12.5
Approximate location
MIUI 12.5 will protect your location privacy better. With the new feature added, you can notify the application of your approximate location, not your exact location. In this way, the application cannot follow you.

Redesigned volume controller and power menu
MIUI 12.5 would give the volume controller, which has not changed for a long time, a much more elegant look. It hasn’t introduced a new feature, but it has new animations and a new look.
At power menu there are no new functions or features, the design has been improved.

New animations
The animation when folder and extracting the app has been improved.
Convert photo to PDF
You can quickly convert any photo to PDF in your gallery.

New recents
The latest app style that changed with MIUI 10 is now customizable with MIUI 12.5! With the new update, you can revert to MIUI 9 style. With this feature, the foundation of a structure that allows you to fully interfere with MIUI was laid. With MIUI 12.5, you can use recent apps horizontally.

New camera interface
Is the camera application with new features added every day getting complicated? With MIUI 12.5, this complexity has been replaced by a plain interface.

Cleaner interface
The cleaner app’s interface got a little more serious.

New notification center design
With MIUI 12.5, the notification window has been brought closer to the Android 11 view. Notifications, messages and silent notifications are parsed.

Others
- New Fingerprint Animations
- Bubble notification support (Android 11)
- Super resolution
- Voice control
- New QR Code interface
- New Icon styles
- And More!
The MIUI 12.5 update will likely be released in February. After the MIUI 12.5 update, MIUI 13 and MI 11 will be introduced. One of the first devices to use MIUI 12.5 might be the MI 11.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});MIUI 12.5 Eligible Devices
- Redmi 7A
- Redmi 8A
- Redmi 8A Dual / Pro
- Redmi 8
- Redmi 9A
- Redmi 9AT
- Redmi 9i
- Redmi 9C
- Redmi 9C NFC
- Redmi 9
- Redmi 9 (India)
- Redmi 9 Prime
- Redmi 10X 4G
- Redmi 10X 5G
- Redmi 10X Pro
- Redmi Note 7
- Redmi Note 7S
- Redmi Note 7 Pro
- Redmi Note 8
- Redmi Note 8T
- Redmi Note 8 Pro
- Redmi Note 9
- Redmi Note 9S
- Redmi Note 9 Pro (India)
- Redmi Note 9 Pro (Global)
- Redmi Note 9 Pro Max
- Redmi Note 9 4G (CN)
- Redmi Note 9 5G
- Redmi Note 9 Ultra
- Redmi K20
- Redmi K20 Pro
- Redmi K20 Pro Premium Edition
- Redmi K30
- Redmi K30 5G
- Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition
- Redmi K30i 5G
- Redmi K30 Pro
- Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition
- Redmi K30 Ultra
- Redmi K30S Ultra
- POCO F1
- POCO F2 Pro
- POCO X2
- POCO X3
- POCO X3 NFC
- POCO M2 Pro
- POCO M2
- POCO C3
- POCO M3
- Mi 8
- Mi 8 Pro
- Mi 8 Under Display Edition
- Mi 8 Explorer Edition
- Mi 8 SE
- Mi 8 Lite
- Mi 9
- Mi 9 Pro
- Mi 9 Pro 5G
- Mi 9 Explorer Edition
- Mi 9 Lite
- Mi 9 SE
- Mi 10
- Mi 10 Pro
- Mi 10 Ultra
- Mi 10 Lite
- Mi 10 Youth Edition
- Mi Note 10
- Mi Note 10 Pro
- Mi Note 10 Lite
- Mi CC9e
- Mi CC9
- Mi CC9 Pro
- Mi 9T
- Mi 9T Pro
- Mi 10T
- Mi 10T Pro
- Mi 10T Lite
- Mi Mix 2S
- Mi Mix 3
- Blackshark 2
- Blackshark 2 Pro
- Blackshark 3
- Blackshark 3 Pro
- Blackshark 3S
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