We do not need to have a high-end or a model with the latest version of MIUI, since the manufacturer has provided all these options to its mobiles for generations. You just have to follow the steps we give you and choose our style preferences, so that our Xiaomi, Redmi or Poco does not repeat style with other users.
Icons are the fundamental change
We cannot talk about customization in Xiaomi without dwelling extensively on the MIUI topics. This is the main Xiaomi change that we can make on our smartphone to choose other icons, which give us access to all the apps that we choose to have at a glance on the smartphone.
To proceed with the customization of the icons, we just have to enter the Themes app of our Xiaomi smartphone. This is found by default in all models of the Xiaomi firm, under the name Redmi and also in Poco. Just by tapping on its quick access, it will take us to the complete options of themes offered by the developers.
Search for icons in MIUI
The first thing we will have to do is find a series of icons that suit our tastes. The store offers us various search sources, among which are the categories, top, cute things, new, those designed for dark mode or even the search engine if we already know about a topic that we like.
Whichever method we want to use, we have to note that there are some of these themes that are not free and the word premium appears in them. The search will not be easy and in some cases it may take us several minutes as there are many options available.
Once we have found with the help of the previews a series of icons within a theme that we likeAll you have to do is click on the “free” button. You want to download the theme to your mobile phone. Once downloaded we do not have to touch the button to apply, otherwise we will modify everything on the smartphone beyond the icons.
Steps to modify only the icons in Xiaomi
Once we have the icons downloaded, they will be saved in our Xiaomi account and what we will do next will help us to start using them in our custom home screen. This change is applied from the Themes app, but this time by tapping on the lower icon that refers to our profile.
Then we will enter the section called “Customize theme”. Then we enter icons and there we will have all the styles that we have downloaded, to play in the one we have chosen and then apply. Keep in mind that icons are one of the most sophisticated changes and that not all the apps that we can have are adapted to the most extroverted styles.
Infinity of wallpapers to choose from in MIUI
The style changes are of course preceded by the wallpaper, which can possibly make a difference on all mobiles. Xiaomi is aware of this and that is why it offers us many possibilities of customization with wallpapers in MIUI. To do this, you just have to follow these steps:
- We enter the mobile settings.
- We tap on the Wallpaper option.
- We choose the desired wallpaper.
The options begin on our smartphone with the options that MIUI offers by default already on the mobile, which are inside the pre-installed folder. But we will be able to have access to many free wallpapers on Xiaomi If we keep sliding down There will come a time when the “Find more” button will appear.
This will redirect us to the Themes app again, but to the selection of funds. Here we have access to a series of images among which the vast majority are free. We can search for them one by one or enter the selection of the most outstanding ones, know the new backgrounds or even opt for the moving wallpapers that we can use on the mobile, with the corresponding higher battery consumption.
To apply one of them we just have to touch on it, press apply and choose if we want to use it as a wallpaper, lock, home screen or both. Giving in this way a very different style to the phone.
Basic options to change the appearance
Among the possibilities that the Xiaomi customization layer offers us, we have the opportunity to choose a series of options that separately cannot be a big change for the mobile, but that nevertheless together can make Xiaomi mobile very different. These series of changes are very easy to apply, starting with just pinching the home screen. That will open a series of options at the bottom, where we will have to touch Settings to be able to do everything that we explain:
- Transition effects: the option that modifies the type of scrolling that occurs on our mobile screen when moving from one home screen to another.
- Set default screen: it is the place where we can choose another from the home screen as the main one.
- Fill in the empty cells: the change that will allow us to leave the home screen without spaces and that everything is occupied by shortcuts.
- Lock home screen design: a way to protect the design that has cost us so much, preventing the icons from being repositioned.
- Hide application icon: Xiaomi’s way of calling the alert for new notifications in apps.
If we want to continue customizing the home screen, we will have to touch on the “More” button that leads to another variety of options where we will not repeat other aspects of customization such as backgrounds or icons that we have already explained in full. .
- Customize design: where we can choose the size of the icons and the amount of icons that they take in each row.
- Application drawer: what activates or deactivates the upward gesture on the screen to enter the rest of the available apps.
- Home screen: a category of options including the option to view Google Discover and add new apps to home.
- Notifications icon: we can choose between the circle or the number of pending notifications to be shown at startup.
- Press twice to lock the screen: the option that allows you to touch a space without access as an alternative to the lock button.