Together with Xiaomi 14 sequence reveal, the corporate unexpectedly introduced a very revamped customized Android overlay referred to as HyperOS, which was attributable to substitute MIUI.
Now that the primary telephones with HyperOS began arriving, we see that regardless of the unconventional identify change, HyperOS is not all that completely different – a minimum of on the floor.
People who find themselves used to MIUI will really feel proper at residence when utilizing HyperOS. The general aesthetics, some iconography adjustments apart, stay nearly unchanged.
Xiaomi clearly centered extra on under-the-hood adjustments and optimizations with HyperOS. Or a minimum of the primary model of the brand new working system, which is predicated on Android 14. Let’s get these out of the way in which earlier than continuing to the precise options and user-oriented adjustments.
Underneath-the-hood optimizations
Xiaomi says that one of many predominant adjustments is how HyperOS handles and schedules {hardware} sources, leading to decrease latency and quicker switching between duties. This ought to be significantly helpful for lower-end units.
Because of the storage optimizations, HyperOS guarantees a minimum of a 50-month efficiency degradation-free expertise in addition to decrease storage necessities. The brand new OS is extra light-weight than MIUI 14 – 3.5GB discount in measurement, now 9GB.
Sooner OTA downloads and the smaller storage footprint of the OTA updates are additionally a part of the updates.
Final however not least, the Professional HDR operate makes its option to Xiaomi’s units – those which have {hardware} supporting the function, after all. Pictures taken with HDR will benefit from the HDR-enabled show in your cellphone when viewing them within the default Gallery app. Nonetheless, in contrast to Pixels, Galaxy S sequence and iPhones, the Professional HDR operate is supported solely contained in the inventory gallery, so HDR images uploaded on-line will not be displayed in another way. Maybe Xiaomi plans a full-fledged integration sooner or later, but it surely’s positively not a factor proper now.
That is imagined to be a function baked into Android 14 by default, as telephones will now retailer HDR metadata on customary JPG photos, to allow them to be seen in HDR in any app or gallery.
Design and UI novelties
HyperOS is designed across the Alive Design Philosophy with dynamic and cheerful coloration palettes present in nature, significantly flowers, refined curvatures of home windows, buttons and different UI components, and new optimized fonts. These fonts have reportedly been meticulously optimized for numerous scripts, not simply Latin.
Lock display screen • Residence display screen • Current apps
New animations across the standing bar present contextual info. As an illustration, when charging, a refined pop-up will seem displaying the battery proportion in addition to the speed of charging. The battery standing of your wi-fi headphones additionally briefly seems on the standing bar.
New standing notifications
To additional improve the visible expertise, HyperOS helps extra superior, complicated rendering, giving the impression of extra sensible objects and Materials design components. We’re speaking about climate visualizations, gentle transitions, clear components, textures, and many others. Nonetheless, this function is supported by extra highly effective telephones, because it requires extra {hardware} sources.
Interacting with home windows is made seamless, irrespective of the shape issue. Home windows are versatile and adapt to completely different show sorts, which in flip signifies that HyperOS is extra foldable and tablet-friendly.
Floating home windows and multitasking
Subjectively talking, HyperOS is only a extra polished model of MIUI. The matte glass results, the popping textures and the HDR-like results of some dialogues makes all the pieces look extra refined and slick.
Customizations
The standard customization options are in place with some new additions and adjustments. Listed below are the lock display screen choices obtainable. You possibly can both construct a theme from scratch or use a specific model and regulate it to your liking.
Customization choices and themes
And listed below are the brand new lock display screen types as effectively. You possibly can select an image and apply completely different results.
Lock display screen types and customizations
A wide array of community-sourced wallpapers, themes, fonts and icons can be found as at all times. The At all times-on function can be extremely customizable however with none change in comparison with MIUI.
AoD choices
The remainder is enterprise as regular, besides that you could now not select between the basic model notification shade and Management Centre. The latter is now the one choice. Telephones that initially launched with MIUI nonetheless have the old-style notification shade.
Management Middle and media playback controls
Talking of the notification shade, fairly just a few customizations can be found.
Notification choices
You should utilize HyperOS’ notification card model with full-fledged icons from the apps sending the notification or the default Android-style playing cards with extra minimalist and flat icon types. The latter model presents larger and expandable playing cards, too.
Notification playing cards
You possibly can go for an app drawer or a easy residence display screen, whereas the latest apps menu permits for vertical or horizontal association.
App drawer
Related units and multitasking
HyperOS presents deeper integration with linked units to your house community and units signed into your private Xiaomi account. This is not new for MIUI customers, after all, however HyperOS presents a tad deeper integration with different Mi Share-capable units.
Connectivity choices
Now you can multitask and solid your display screen to different units (tablets and PCs), not simply ship recordsdata. It is not an entire desktop-like expertise, although. Samsung and Motorola nonetheless have the higher hand on this regard.
Nonetheless, Xiaomi achieved a way of continuity – you’ll be able to share your clipboard with different units, connect a photograph in your Notes app by utilizing the cellphone’s digital camera (whereas working in your PC or pill) and proceed listening to your music the place you left off when you join your headphones to your smartphone, for instance. You possibly can even sync your themes and colours throughout units, equally to Home windows’ look sync throughout units.
AI options
With HyperOS, Xiaomi can be getting on board with the AI developments. Google’s Pixel telephones provided their first AI-related options with the Pixel 7 sequence launch, and Samsung is focusing closely on AI this yr as effectively. Xiaomi guarantees related options and even advertises on-device quantity crunching. Which means the gadget is able to processing all of the LLM knowledge with out having to connect with the cloud, so all of your AI options ought to work offline simply as effectively, because of the NPU optimizations.
Nonetheless, we could not discover any of the marketed AI-related options on the Xiaomi 14 or the Xiaomi 13 Extremely, each operating the most recent obtainable model of HyperOS. That is as a result of these functionalities are in a beta improvement stage and can be found solely to beta testers, so a wider rollout is anticipated sooner or later.
Similar to the Pixels and Galaxy S sequence from the final two generations, the suitable HyperOS-running Xiaomi telephones can transcribe dwell conversations and generate subtitles in movies and third-party apps.
These two options additionally work in video chat apps, so you do not have to take notes throughout a gathering, because the AI will do this for you.
The default Gallery app additionally will get a lift. The search understands context and presents good search – similar to the Google Pictures app.
Xiaomi leverages the AI’s generative energy as effectively. Along with the same old set of enhancing instruments, the Gallery app now presents AI Portrait. It may well generate a picture of you by analyzing a database of your current images. Utilizing that very same AI-generated portrait, you’ll be able to place your self in an atmosphere of your selecting – snowy peaks, tropical island, you identify it.
AI Growth is one other enhancing software that permits you to increase the scene in an current picture. The AI understands the context within the picture and expands the background, therefore the identify of the software – AI Growth.
Safety
Safety is a vital a part of each working system, and Xiaomi put some effort into that as effectively. A self-developed TEE Safety System – hardware-level safety – shops all of your delicate knowledge on an unbiased microkernel. It retains your fingerprint and facial knowledge secured in addition to your hidden or locked recordsdata and images. Apparently, TEE is current on all HyperOS-enabled units.
Wrap up
Though from customers’ perspective, HyperOS is not an entire revamp of MIUI, it is a extra polished customized Android pores and skin whereas retaining MIUI’s performance and even upgrading on this regard, largely because of the AI-related options.
We additionally preferred how little adjustments within the UI design increase the general expertise with out sacrificing efficiency within the course of. HyperOS feels as quick and easy as at all times and now has a promise of staying that approach for years of use.
We solely want extra Android-intrinsic options make their approach into Xiaomi’s proprietary overlay. We’re nonetheless ready for the notification historical past (Android 11 function) and we want to see Professional HDR being absolutely carried out, not only for Xiaomi’s default Gallery app.