How to get rid of unwanted ads and spam notifications on your Xiaomi smartphone
Earlier, we told you how to disable unwanted ads in MIUI 10 through a step-by-step guide. Now, we are going to tell you how to disable unwanted ads on MIUI 11.
Many people do not know on which version their phone is working, so to know the version of your smartphone, open the settings of your Xiaomi phone and go to ‘About phone’. Here you will find all the information related to your phone, the information of MIUI will be given like this, ‘MIUI Global 11.0.4’. If the version of your phone is MIUI 11, then in this way you can stop unwanted advertisements in your phone.
Block unwanted ads using MSA process
The biggest reason for seeing ads in stock apps is MSA or MIUI system advertising process, which keeps running in the background. In the previous version of MIUI, you had to switch off the ads several times to stop them, but we found the method of MIUI 11 quite simple, how? Let’s know-
1. First of all go to the Settings app.
2. Complete the Authorization & revocation process by entering the password.
3. Here you will see ‘msa’ listed with a green Android logo, which you have to turn off.
4. After this you have to do the same with the last option in the list, GetApps.
5. After this you will get a 10 second warning message, in which you will be asked to confirm this step.
6. After the countdown is over, press ‘Revoke’. If it doesn’t turn off in one go, you can do this multiple times. (Although you won’t need to do this.)
7. After this, even if you reboot your phone, MSA will remain disabled.
Other changes to ad blocking:
The method mentioned above is enough, but we have some other ways to stop advertisements. By using these methods, you can completely get rid of unwanted advertisements. For this, follow these steps-
1. Follow the previous method and go to Password & Security.
2. Now click on Privacy and scroll down, then tap on the User Experience Programme section.
3. Here you have to disable the toggle switch for User Experience Programme and Send diagnostic data automatically.
4. Now you will see Ad services below. Here you have to disable Personalised ad recommendations.
With these methods, you will not only not be able to see ads from native apps, but this method will not be able to stop spam notifications from other apps on your phone, for this you will have to go to different apps and disable notifications. Let’s know how-
How to stop advertisement from Mi Video-
1. Open the Mi Video app.
2. After this, tap on the Profile tab in the bottom right corner and then go to Settings.
3. Now disable Online recommendations, Push notifications and Personalised recommendations.
How to turn off ads from Mi Music-
1. Open the Music app.
2. Now click on the three line menu at the top.
3. After this, go to Settings and then Advanced Settings and scroll down and disable Receive Recommendations.
How to stop advertisements from File Manager-
1. Open the File Manager app.
2. Now click on the three line menu at the top.
3. After Settings, go to About.
4. Disable Recommendations.
How to turn off ads in Downloads-
1. Go to Tools Folder and open Downloads app.
2. Tap on the three vertical dots.
3. Disable Recommended content here.
How to disable ads in Mi Browser-
1. First of all open Mi Browser.
2. Tap on the three-line menu and go to Settings.
3. Disable Content Feed here. (If you don’t want weird content pop-ups)
4. Now go to Advanced and disable Show ads here.
5. Now go to the main Settings page and tap on Privacy & security.
6. Here you have to disable Personalised services.
How to stop advertisements from Mi Security-
1. Open Security app.
2. Now click on the cog icon at the top left.
3. Now tap on Cleaner in Settings and disable Receive recommendations given below the list.
4. You can also disable it through the Remind to clean option.
5. Now come back to the main settings and scroll down and disable Receive recommendations.
6. For more privacy, you can also disable Report data usage info by clicking on Data Usage.
How to stop ads in Themes-
1. Open Themes app.
2. Now tap on the My page tab located at the bottom right.
3. Disable Recommendations by tapping on Settings.
Uninstall bloatware like this
We have learned all the ways to get rid of unwanted ads and notifications of native apps, now it is the turn of those apps which are pre-installed in our phone, which includes Dailyhunt, WPS Office, Opera Mini and some games apps like Ludo Master, Pop Shooter Blast etc. However, we can uninstall many of these apps including Mi Community, Mi Store, and Mi Credit. Know what to do for these-
1. Long-press on the app you want to uninstall and then tap App info in the pop-up bubble.
2. After this you just have to click on the uninstall button, which will be given to you at the bottom.
3. Then tap OK to complete the uninstall process.
Disable Promoted Apps like this-
There are some default folders like Games and More apps etc. When you open them, you see the promoted apps.
To close such folders, long-press on them. Now all you have to do is close it.
How to turn off spam app notifications-
To turn off notifications from spam apps, long-press on the alert in the notification shade, after which you will see a toggle switch where you will get the option to turn off notifications for the app. Turn it off here, after which you will not receive any notifications from these apps.
1. Go to the phone’s Settings app.
2. Tap on Notifications and scroll down the list, here you will find the Disable Notifications option which you have to turn off.
