Along with Xiaomi 14 collection reveal, the corporate unexpectedly introduced a very revamped customized Android overlay referred to as HyperOS, which was because of change MIUI.
Now that the primary telephones with HyperOS began arriving, we see that regardless of the unconventional title change, HyperOS is not all that totally different – not less than on the floor.
People who’re used to MIUI will really feel proper at house when utilizing HyperOS. The total aesthetics, some iconography modifications apart, stay virtually unchanged.
Xiaomi clearly centered extra on under-the-hood modifications and optimizations with HyperOS. Or not less than the primary model of the brand new working system, which relies on Android 14. Let’s get these out of the way in which earlier than continuing to the precise options and user-oriented modifications.
Under-the-hood optimizations
Xiaomi says that one of many most important modifications is how HyperOS handles and schedules {hardware} sources, leading to decrease latency and sooner switching between duties. This must be significantly helpful for lower-end units.
Thanks to the storage optimizations, HyperOS guarantees not less than a 50-month efficiency degradation-free expertise in addition to decrease storage necessities. The new OS is extra light-weight than MIUI 14 – 3.5GB discount in measurement, now 9GB.
Faster OTA downloads and the smaller storage footprint of the OTA updates are additionally a part of the updates.
Last however not least, the Pro HDR operate makes its method to Xiaomi’s units – those which have {hardware} supporting the function, in fact. Photos taken with HDR will reap the benefits of the HDR-enabled show in your telephone when viewing them within the default Gallery app. However, not like Pixels, Galaxy S collection and that iPhones, the Pro HDR operate is supported solely contained in the inventory gallery, so HDR photographs uploaded on-line will not be displayed in another way. Perhaps Xiaomi plans a full-fledged integration sooner or later, however it’s undoubtedly not a factor proper now.
This is meant to be a function baked into Android 14 by default, as telephones will now retailer HDR metadata on normal JPG photographs, to allow them to be considered in HDR in any app or gallery.
Design and UI novelties
HyperOS is designed across the Alive Design Philosophy with dynamic and cheerful shade palettes present in nature, significantly flowers, refined curvatures of home windows, buttons and different UI parts, and new optimized fonts. These fonts have reportedly been meticulously optimized for varied scripts, not simply Latin.
Lock display • Home display • Recent apps
New animations across the standing bar present contextual data. For occasion, when charging, a refined pop-up will seem displaying the battery share 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 Material design parts. We are speaking about climate visualizations, mild transitions, clear parts, textures, and so forth. However, 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. Windows are versatile and adapt to totally different show varieties, 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 every part look extra refined and slick.
Customizations
The typical customization options are in place with some new additions and modifications. Here are the lock display choices accessible. You can both construct a theme from scratch or use a selected fashion and regulate it to your liking.
Customization choices and themes
And listed here are the brand new lock display kinds as properly. You can select an image and apply totally different results.
Lock display kinds and customizations
A big selection of community-sourced wallpapers, themes, fonts and icons can be found as at all times. The Always-on function can also be extremely customizable however with none change in comparison with MIUI.
AoD choices
The relaxation is enterprise as typical, besides that you would be able to not select between the basic fashion notification shade and Control Centre. The latter is now the one possibility. Phones that initially launched with MIUI nonetheless have the old-style notification shade.
Control Center and media playback controls
Speaking of the notification shade, fairly just a few customizations can be found.
Notification choices
You can use HyperOS’ notification card fashion with full-fledged icons from the apps sending the notification or the default Android-style playing cards with extra minimalist and flat icon kinds. The latter fashion gives greater and expandable playing cards, too.
Notification playing cards
You can go for an app drawer or a easy house display, whereas the latest apps menu permits for vertical or horizontal association.
App drawer
Connected units and multitasking
HyperOS gives deeper integration with related units to your property community and units signed into your private Xiaomi account. This is not new for MIUI customers, in fact, however HyperOS gives a tad deeper integration with different Mi Share-capable units.
Connectivity choices
You can now multitask and forged your display to different units (tablets and PCs), not simply ship information. It’s not an entire desktop-like expertise, although. Samsung and Motorola nonetheless have the higher hand on this regard.
Still, Xiaomi achieved a way of continuity – you may share your clipboard with different units, connect a photograph in your Notes app by utilizing the telephone’s digicam (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 may even sync your themes and colours throughout units, equally to Windows’ look sync throughout units.
AI options
With HyperOS, Xiaomi can also be getting on board with the AI developments. Google’s Pixel telephones supplied their first AI-related options with the Pixel 7 collection launch, and Samsung is focusing closely on AI this yr as properly. Xiaomi guarantees related options and even advertises on-device quantity crunching. This signifies that the gadget is able to processing all of the LLM information with out having to hook up with the cloud, so all of your AI options ought to work offline simply as properly, because of the NPU optimizations.
However, we could not discover any of the marketed AI-related options on the Xiaomi 14 or the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, each working the most recent accessible model of HyperOS. That’s 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 predicted sooner or later.
Just just like the Pixels and Galaxy S collection from the final two generations, the appropriate 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 try this for you.
The default Gallery app additionally will get a lift. The search understands context and gives sensible search – identical to the Google Photos app.
Xiaomi leverages the AI’s generative energy as properly. In addition to the same old set of modifying instruments, the Gallery app now gives AI Portrait. It can generate a picture of you by analyzing a database of your current photographs. Using that very same AI-generated portrait, you may place your self in an atmosphere of your selecting – snowy peaks, tropical island, you title it.
AI Expansion is one other modifying instrument that permits you to develop the scene in an current picture. The AI understands the context within the picture and expands the background, therefore the title of the instrument – AI Expansion.
Security
Security is a vital a part of each working system, and Xiaomi put some effort into that as properly. A self-developed TEE Security System – hardware-level safety – shops all of your delicate information on an impartial microkernel. It retains your fingerprint and facial information secured in addition to your hidden or locked information and photographs. Interestingly, TEE is current on all HyperOS-enabled units.
Wrap up
Although 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 modifications within the UI design enhance the general expertise with out sacrificing efficiency within the course of. HyperOS feels as quick and clean as at all times and now has a promise of staying that method for years of use.
We solely want extra Android-intrinsic options make their method into Xiaomi’s proprietary overlay. We are nonetheless ready for the notification historical past (Android 11 function) and we wish to see Pro HDR being absolutely carried out, not only for Xiaomi’s default Gallery app.