As the pioneer of domestic customization system, Xiaomi's MIUI has always been the learning object of many domestic systems, but perhaps it has really changed from an innovator to a defender, and it is difficult to attract users with functional points on MIUI7, Even the retrogression and lack of functionality in places such as ROOT permissions show that MIUI7 may not be the first one anymore. In addition, the recent "advertising" incident has made MIUI worse. Let's take a closer look at whether MIUI is really as bad as rumors.
The main interface has little change from the previous MIUI6, but more details are polished. The multi task interface is a horizontal card type interface, which is not as beautiful and direct as the original Android interface. The drop down menu is called out from anywhere on the screen, with frosted glass effect. From the drop-down menu, you can slide left and right to select the view notice bar or shortcut bar, and slide up to call out the search interface.
One small detail to note when creating a folder is that you must click the name modification item when creating it for the first time, and close it if you like. Otherwise, annoying advertisements will accompany you all the time.
The setting menu has little change from the past. It is classified according to certain categories. The system is the latest MIUI7.3, based on Android 6.0.
Miui7 supports a variety of settings for the screen, including eye protection mode, color temperature, color enhancement, double click wake-up, etc., and has a wide range of customizations. Users can easily find their favorite colors, which are worth liking
The power saving mode of MIUI7 supports multiple profiles, which can be set or customized by users according to their own use conditions. At the same time, it adds power saving on time and regular switch on/off, which can fully save power when the phone is in standby or sleeping.
MIUI's unique Shenyin mode, in fact, is similar to the meaning of green guard. If it is set to the standard mode, the system will automatically limit the network and positioning functions of each app in the background according to the situation. If it is enhanced, the system will kill the app after it enters the background for a period of time.
MIUI7 has added the one button phone change function, which is a very good experience. However, at present, it only supports the intercommunication between Xiaomi mobile phones, and does not support the intercommunication with other brands of mobile phones, so it is a bit weak.
The built-in applications of MIUI are relatively uniform in design style and operation mode, but there is nothing remarkable compared with Flyme and EMUI previously written. If you insist, you can directly watch live TV in Xiaomi Video. In addition, some advertisements have been implanted in the bottom layer of the application to varying degrees, which is not eye-catching but deadly. Of course, some applications will have switches to turn off advertising, but the switch position is not obvious.
The built-in mobile butler of MIUI7 is weaker in functionality than Flyme and EMUI, does not have the blocking setting of mutual wake-up (MIUI8 has confirmed that it has this function, but it is too slow compared with the other two companies), and there are still advertisements on some pages, which really makes all mobile users participate in the campaign of looking for advertisements throughout the city. Permission management functions are quite complete. Users can authorize application permissions on demand, and there is also self start management. However, according to the toxicity of domestic whole family buckets at present, a single self start management can be said to have little effect. We hope that the wake-up blocking of MIUI8 can bring us surprises.
As the leading MIUI in the past, when I came to MIUI7, I felt more or less like an old hero. Its functionality is not as rich as that of its rivals, and the system is more and more closed than before (you need to apply for authorization to ROOT). It can be said that it is no longer the system born for fever, and the emergence of system advertisements also shows that Xiaomi is more concerned about how to make good use of this huge user base. Of course, MIUI8 just released has brought many new functions. I hope we can find the original intention in MIUI8 by then.
