In recent years, the system has become the focus of optimization and improvement of major manufacturers, and MIUI, as the first product of Xiaomi, has been developed for 11 years. However, in the past two years, MIUI has indeed had some smooth and stable problems.
The arrival of MIUI 13, is to return to the original intention from this generation, smooth and stable has become the focus of optimization, now Xiaomi 12 Pro has been used in my hands for more than ten days, in this pre-installed MIUI 13 mobile phone, fluency experience and the previous Millet phone compared to what new changes?
This widget can be played for several days
In fact, the first time you get started with the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, you can obviously feel the smooth feeling of sliding operation, this smooth feeling is obvious compared with the MIUI 12.5 model experienced before, and it is throughout a variety of daily operations, I will talk about it together when introducing new features below.
The most intuitive change in the appearance of MIUI 13 comes first from the desktop, which is the widget. Although the widget has been in beta for half a year, it is only complete on MIUI 13.
Long press the blank space on the desktop to add widgets, you can see that there are many kinds of widgets, and it is also very beautiful. I tossed and turned directly that afternoon, first show you a few of my desktop layouts.
The reason why people can play for so long, you know that the MIUI 13 widget is different from the widgets on other systems, mainly because Xiaomi has redesigned it, added some fun things, what to eat today, countdown, drink water count... Also made a lot of styles, just the types of clocks are dazzling, what space rescue, Morse code, school bully challenge, really take the time to design well.
There is also a little difference is that the widgets of MIUI 13 use an independent architecture, which is controlled by Xiaomi globally, and the third party needs to be adapted separately, so the style design and animation can be unified. At present, the number of third parties is also quite large, and there are basically commonly used ones.
The advantage of this is that the animation of the widget can be said to be first-class, the finger sliding "from where to go back and forth" and the main interface of the sense of operation is also unified, how to say it, is the taste of iOS.
Similarly, all its components are also connected with the negative screen, from the negative screen to the desktop, you can move around, if you do not like the widget to block the desktop wallpaper, then you can put the commonly used are put on the negative screen.
In the past, I didn't like Android's negative screen, you know, it's all some messy information flow, and on MIUI 13, the degree of customization of the negative screen is very high, you can place widgets at will, which makes the utilization rate of the negative screen greatly improved, but also better, more in line with my heart.
MiUI 13 has a big change in appearance is the font, from the previous small Milan Pavilion to the MiSans customized with the Hanyi character library. However, MiSans has announced that it is free to commercial, and everyone who needs it can directly download and use.
From a direct point of view, the desktop has become more beautiful on MIUI 13, and the widgets are more in line with the habits of large-screen mobile phones. Especially on the 6.73-inch large screen of Xiaomi 12 Pro, as the most popular desktop layout application, the degree of utilization is undoubtedly getting higher and higher, and the experience improvement of MIUI 13 in this regard can be said to be seamless.
Privacy protection is definitely the android head
Another optimization on a large-screen app is the global sidebar. In fact, this feature has long been available on many other brand mobile phones, and MIUI can only call out the sidebar when video and games, and now it is a bit late to follow up, and it is finally heeded.
Slide sideways to call out the global sidebar, just click an app to open a small window, you can drag at will. Usually when brushing the mobile phone, you can reply to The WeChat message at any time in the small window to see what the stock market is, or it is much more convenient.
The global sidebar is not enabled by default and needs to be opened in System Settings - Features. There are also some new features added by MIUI 13, such as the front camera assistant, turn on its privacy shooting switch, the system will intelligently identify the face recognition scene, and then only show the face on the interface, and the other parts are completely obscured by black.
Remember that "face recognition must wear clothes" before the hot search, because you think that only the face is photographed, in fact, the background sees the whole picture. The inspiration for this privacy shooting function of MIUI13 should also come from this event.
But it is not only covered with a black frame, when used, I also found that it has a tracking function, it will move with the face, and the size of the circle will also become smaller and smaller with the distance between the face and the camera, to ensure that only the face is exposed, which is still a brain.
There is also a new privacy protection watermark in the document mode in the camera, you can customize the editing watermark, click on the shield symbol, you can automatically add a watermark to the photos you take.
The watermark can be added multiple times, and it can be modified at any time, but the words are a little small, the color is lighter, and it is better if you can increase the custom range.
This kind of watermark, I used to add it manually on the computer PS, although there are third-party applications that can be added directly, but most of them are networked, and the ID photos are still placed locally and more secure. MIUI13's ID privacy watermark is also added to the local album, which is safer to use.
It must be admitted that MIUI is the absolute head of Android in terms of privacy protection, and after the introduction of previous application behavior records, sensitive behavior reminders, security risks, clipboard privacy protection and other functions, user attention is high, and other manufacturers have followed suit.
MiUI 13 has brought system-level fraud protection, which should be said to be an enhanced version of anti-harassment calls. In addition to directly marking scam calls, scam text messages can also identify and give risk warnings, and even when transferring money, MIUI 13 will also carry out risk transfer warnings.
If you really answer a scam call, you will also receive an official call reminder from the relevant state departments. I think this is really useful for the old people who are easily deceived at home, and I hope to be able to quickly adapt to more models.
The fluency that can be perceived immediately when you get started
The above is basically the main function of this MIUI 13 update, as for fluency, as I said at the beginning, to MIUI 13, the discussion of fluency can actually turn the page.
The stability of the MIUI 12.5 enhanced version of the MIUI mobile phone that I have used for half a year has returned to the excellent level of the industry, and the problems have been solved. The fluency of MIUI 13 this time can be directly perceived after getting started.
I give a few examples, take the negative screen mentioned earlier, many Android phones when the negative screen is crossed, there will be a feeling of obvious card, some widgets will be reloaded, the experience is very fragmented. On the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, it is actually as unchanged as the desktop switch, there is no lag at all, very smooth.
There are also global sidebars that call out small windows, and drag and drop at will on the desktop, which is very smooth; the fluency of the widget operation is also system-level. Another point, multitasking, the ability to reside in the background is really strong, the problem of killing the background, I have not encountered this time of use...
There are many similar fluency experiences, about the fluency and stability of MIUI 13, there is really no need to pay attention to excessive, and MIUI 13 represents the opening of a new stage in addition to returning to the original intention.
The Xiaomi Mi MiaoXiang Center, which is about to open the application for internal testing in mid-February, is a very clear signal. Xiaomi TV, speaker, tablet, computer through the Xiaomi Mi Magic Center to achieve content and use interconnection, as well as the new MIUI Family debut.
Previously, Xiaomi IoT only had one Mijia APP in terms of software, and there was no difference in the use of any mobile phone after installation, and starting from MIUI Family, the whole platform unified development of MIUI, IoT and MIUI were deeply bound, and everything was connected with the Xiaomi Magic Center exclusive to Xiaomi mobile phones, which indicated that the use of Xiaomi mobile phones was not only a smooth experience, but also a significant improvement in the interconnection of all things.