After rolling out last month’s Android 10 update for the Mi A2 smartphone, Xiaomi today started rolling out the update for its latest Mi A3 smartphone after a slight delay, even though last month it released Android 10-based Kernel Sources for that app. Last year in August the smartphone debuted running Android 9.0 (Pie).
Android 10 provides users with a number of additional privacy and security features, including Dark Theme, Smart Reaction, Focus mode, dedicated’ Privacy’ portion, and much more. After the update, you need to select “Show fingerprint icon when the screen if off” option in the fingerprint settings so that the fingerprint icon appears in the lockscreen when you raise the device or tap the screen. Xiaomi claims this raises power consumption though.
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