[MIUI Central] XDARoni:
New Control Center and Notification Shade in MIUI 12

MIUI 12 brings several new UI improvements to Xiaomi phones. I wanted to go over some of the changes made to the notifications menu and the control center. I have MIUI 12 running on my Xiaomi Mi 9T and have been using these new features over the past few days. These are all of the new changes you can expect with the control center and notification shade.

To access the different menus, you'll swipe down on your screen. Swipe down on the left side of you home screen to bring down the notification shade. Swipe down on the right side to bring down your control center.

Control Center

This menu is a collection of toggles and sliders that act as quick shortcuts to bast phone functions. This menu is where you will find the following controls:

Mobile Data

Wifi

Bluetooth

Flashlight

At this point, if you expand the menu, you'll find more toggles below that include:

Mute

Screenshot

Airplane mode

Lock screen

Location

Rotation

Scanner

Reading mode

Dark mode

DND

Battery saver

Ultra battery saver

Cast Mi Share

Floating windows

Screen Recorder

Vibrate

Hotspot

Sync

NFC

Focus mode

Bedtime mode

This entire list is customizable. There is an edit icon in the top right corner of the control center which you let you add or remove different toggles.

Some of the best features of the control center are being able to easily access a list of available WiFi or Bluetooth connections, without having to open your settings menu.

[IMG="Control Center in MIUI 12"]https://i.imgur.com/SVDal50.jpg[/IMG]

There are more customization options for the control center in the settings menu under Status Bar. In this settings menu, you'll be able to toggle the following options:

Show notification icons

Show connection speed

Show carrier when device is locked

Use control center

Edit carrier name

Battery indicator

[IMG="Control Center Customizations"]https://i.imgur.com/GPGgpaW.jpg[/IMG]

Screenshots:

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Notification Shade

The notification shade has also been revamped to include new features for MIUI 12. This new notification system is simple, cleaner, and more organized. There are three different types of notification options. You'll have lock screen notifications, floating notifications, and notification badges.

In the notification settings, you can choose which apps receive each kind of notification. So if I want my messaging apps to receive badge notifications and floating notification, but not appear on my lock screen, I can do that.

Screenshots:

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The default setup for the notification shade doesn't require any customization to work as you'd expect it to. However, there are now enough extra customization features for anyone to set things up exactly how they prefer.

How it Feels

These updates create a significantly better experience compared to the previous situation in MIUI 11. Being able to quickly bring down the notification shade or the control center, based on which side of the screen you interact with, makes daily use of your phone mush easier. I have found that managing my notifications has become much better after updating from MIUI 11.

Control center for MIUI 11

and MIUI 12

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Notification shade for MIUI 11

and MIUI 12

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With the new update, I can quickly see my email notifications without having to view my control center. I keep my chat notifications as badges and only have my less sensitive notifications show up on my lock screen. This would include YouTube, system, Snapchat, or call notifications, etc.

The new layout of the Control center is much easier to use than in MIUI 11. My flashlight is something I use every day and having the larger icons in a more organised space makes using this much simpler. The brightness slider is also improved and easier to use, since they have made it much wider. For my shortcuts, I keep screen recording and night mode at the top, since I use those most often. Overall these are very welcome improvements over MIUI 11.

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