MIUI 11 guides
Some like having date and time stamp on each of the photos that they take using their phone or camera. Some even like seeing location details. This guide will help you enable this setting on phone running MIUI 11.
Lockscreen notifications are good way to check notifications without unlocking the phone. In this guide, we help you to setup lock screen notifications for applications that you frequently use.
Show or hide notifications on lock screen
There are certain applications in our phones that we do not want others to use. When one has kids at home who love using your phone, it is a safe practice to setup locks for applications as phone lock/unlock pin is not enough. App lock in MIUI 11 lets you unlock all or specific applications so that when the app is opened, you have to enter a password.
How to enable application lock
Gone are those days when we used to set monthly data limit of 2GB or whatever. We now have plans with much higher data limit. Yet, for those who use phone as internet router/hotspot, you need a warning that notifies you when you are about to use up your data quota. In this guide, we help you set up daily data limit for your Mi phone. Do note that in MIUI 11, you can only set monthly data limit. There is no provision to set daily data limit.
How to monitor data usage and set limit
Speed dial is an extremely helpful feature to have in a phone. This feature helps you quickly dial your favourite contacts. In this guide, we help you set up speed dial on your Xiaomi phone.
This guide helps you to block application from access mobile data on your phone running MIUI11. Time and again, we end up with an application using up too much of cellular data or we may have set of apps that we never use while connected to cellular network. It is a good practice to block these apps from using cellular data as you do not want these apps eat up your data and battery life by running continuously in background.
Block application from accessing mobile data
If you want to record whatever you see on your phone, here is a simple guide that will help you to start and stop that recording.
If you want to turn on or turn off VoLTE in a Xiaomi/Mi phone, follow this simple guide. VoLTE will be turned on by default unless your phone or SIM or your carrier does not support VoLTE.
How to turn on VoLTE in your phone
Some of us use two accounts for the same application. Many Android applications allow using multiple accounts in the same application but the majority of applications do not let you use more than one account at a time. To fix this, FunTouch OS comes with an ‘App clone’ feature where two instances of the same application are created. Both instances can be used at the same time and both will have their own account/data etc. In this guide, we show you how to enable and use the Dual Apps feature.
How to create dual application for Whatsapp/Facebook
MIUI 11comes with a simple way to change the display and font size on your phone. In this guide, we show you how to change the display and font size to your liking in your Xiaomi/Mi phone.
How to change font size and type
Here is a simple guide to enable or disable a SIM in your Xiaomi phone running MIUI 11.
Here is a simple guide to add a signature like ‘-John Doe reporting’ to every SMS that you send using your phone.
How to add signature to your SMS
One of the irritating things with these OSes is that by default most touch sounds and notification sounds are enabled. These include sounds for unlock/lock phone, sound when a photo is taken, sound when you tap on screen, sound when you are typing. It is very easy to disable/enable these sounds.
How to disable touch and lock sounds
By default, Android does not allow installation of applications from unknown sources, like website or apks that you downloaded. In this guide, we help you enable the setting that allows installation of app from unknown sources.
How to install application using apk
Not every application is required to run in the background. Applications like Facebook always run in the background and eat lot of battery/data. In this guide, we help you understand how to easily disable applications from running in the background.
How to stop app from running in background
In MIUI, you can merge multiple calls to enable conference call, if your carrier supports it. You have to have your carrier activate conference calls for this to work.
Here is a simple guide to help you format a SD card in your smartphone running MIUI 11. Do note that this will completely erase data in SD card and you should do this if you do not need the data stored in SD card.
Here is a simple guide to help you change default photo storage location to SD card. This will be helpful if you do not have space in your phone to store photos. Do note that you have to get a high speed SD card if you do not want to see camera slowdown.
Change default photo storage to SD card
We save a lot of private data (photos, documents etc) on our smartphones. It is better if such content is saved in a safe location. MIUI 11 comes with ‘file safe’ in which you can save your private data. In this guide, we will show you how to configure and access file safe.
How to hide files in your phone
There are too many spam callers out there and there is no straight forward way to stop them. If you do not want to use application like TrueCaller to block spam, you can use this guide to manually add number to blacklist so that you do not get a call again from that number. You can go a step further and report to TRAI using DND 2.0 application for iOS and Android.
How to block calls and SMS from a number
We all end up with this problem. We add contacts to multiple accounts like Google account, Mi account, Microsoft account and when we all all these accounts, we end up with a lot of duplicate contacts. This simple guide in Vivo phones helps you fix this.
How to merge duplicate contacts
While the default apps that come with the phone are okay to use, there are much better applications out there that provide more functionality. Unfortunately, there is no straight way to change default way in your Vivo phone. In this guide, we show you how to change default application.
How to change default application
Here is a simple guide that helps you perform full factory reset or settings reset. Do note that when you do settings reset, you will lose all settings including saved Wi-Fi passwords.
Every smartphone comes with an option to share your internet connection. This means that you can setup your phone as a wireless router. This helps a lot for those who are always on the go and need to connect their laptop or tablet to the internet. Tethering works when your phone is connected to the Internet via mobile data or Wi-Fi network.
How to share internet from phone
Taking screenshots in Xiaomi Android phones is extremely easy. MIUI 11 OS also supports taking long screenshot, which is helpful if the page is longer than the display length. Through this easy guide, you can learn how to take screenshots using.
How to take short and long screenshots
In case you do not want your applications to update automatically when connected to WiFi, follow this guide to disable automatic updates.
Stop automatic updates for your applications from play store
Follow this simple guide for MIUI 11 to know how to enable or disable notifications for applications.
How to manage notification for apps
Here is a simple guide for Vivo FunTouch OS to schedule when your SMS should be sent. This will help when you want to send an SMS at specific time and you may forget at that time.
Most phones these days come with ‘Shot on Mi’ kind watermark that is imprinted on every photo you capture using phone. This guide will help you remove the ‘shot on Mi’ kind of device watermarks.
Remove shot on Mi watermark in photos
In MIUI OS, Game mode is enabled to improve gaming experience. This mode also comes with features like blocking incoming calls, Game PIP, background calls etc. In this guide, we help you understand what features are available in Game Mode and how to enable game mode for games installed on your phone.
How to enable Game Turbo Mode for distraction free gaming
For phones with fingerprint reader, it can be easier to take a photo using fingerprint reader when compared to tapping on display ‘take photo’ icon. Here, you can see how to enable fingerprint reader to take photo.
In this guide, you will learn how to enable or disable ‘tap on display to capture photo’ feature. This is very useful feature if you want to take photo by tapping anywhere on display.