Xiaomi is done with MIUI. In October, the company’s CEO, Lei Jun, officially unveiled the next iteration of the company’s skin on Android. It’s called HyperOS and will soon be released on a lot of Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco devices.
Today, HyperOS has started rolling out widely on Xiaomi 13T Pro units in Europe. It arrives over the air as a 5.8GB download, so make sure you have enough space before proceeding.
Xiaomi 13T Pro Hyper OS update with Android 14
Once the installation is complete (and be careful, it takes a while), you will be on OS version 1.0.3.0.UMLEUXM. Obviously HyperOS is based on Android 14, so that will be down there too. With this update the Xiaomi 13T Pro also receives the security patch level of December 1, 2023.
The changelog is quite extensive (see the screenshots above), but we must caution you against expecting HyperOS to be a huge departure from MIUI. Sure, there are some new features, but overall the look has been slightly improved and not fundamentally changed. This would pass for MIUI 15, or even MIUI 14.5, without any problems.
So we strongly suspect that the rebranding is more of a marketing thing (let’s face it: HyperOS sounds a lot better than MIUI) than anything else at the moment. Of course, this could change with future releases.
Going back to the changelog, it says there is optimized performance for each device, which is fine, but we didn’t notice any difference in real-life usage compared to MIUI. Then again, it was very fast and incredibly smooth at first. We have not yet had time to evaluate the claimed improvements in energy efficiency and signal stability.
The lock screen is now extensively customizable, with multiple effects and looks, and some home screen icons have been updated. The multi-window interface has also received an update. And of course, all of Google’s core improvements should be included as well.
The launch is likely to happen in stages, so if you have a European Xiaomi 13T Pro (and that is if it has “EU” in the MIUI Version string) you may not have received the update notification yet. But it’s only a matter of days at most now that the ball starts to roll. And in any case, this is not a beta or a “stable beta” or a version reserved only for testers who have signed up to some testing program: it is the real offer accessible to everyone.
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