The terminals of the Chinese brand Xiaomi are the object of desire of the most knowledgeable Android users on the subject since they offer us more than interesting technical specifications and value for money. As most of you well know, although the operating system that the entire range of the brand’s terminals have installed as standard is completely based on Android, its customization layer, better known by the name of MIUI, has nothing to do with Android’s own interface and it even completely changes the way you interact with the terminal and its menus are completely different.
In the following practical tutorial, I am going to show you how to enable the developer options in Xiaomi under a Miui V6 Rom, although I think I remember that the system or the way to enable the developer options in Miui V5 is exactly the same. So if you want to find out where these advanced menus for developers are hidden from which we are going to, for example, be able to enable USB debugging, I advise you to click on “Continue Reading”.
How to enable developer options on Xiaomi
While to enable the developer options on Android, whatever the terminal brand, we had to go to Settings / About the phone and click seven times in a row on the compilation number, on the Xiaomi brand terminals, with its famous MIUI customization layer, it changes things a little, it is not that it is neither more nor less complicated, none of that, all you have to know is where to make those seven clicks necessary to enable this new and desired menu with more options how interesting.
To enable the developer options in Xiaomi, in all models and all ranges of devices of the popular Chinese brand, we will only have to enter Settings and go to the last option that appears, an option called About Phone:
Once we are there, instead of clicking the compilation number seven times as we have been doing on Android, we will only have to click the same seven times in a row, although on the option that says MIUI Version:
Finally, the notice will appear, as I show you in the screenshot below, announcing that the long-awaited menu for developers has been enabled successfully.
Now, to access this new developer menu from which we can perform interesting actions such as enabling USB debugging, we will only have to go to Settings / Additional settings and we can see how inside now and if these developer options appear.