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Xiaomi brand mobiles, or the vast majority of them, bring with them a layer of customization called MIUI that offers the user a great variety of extra functionalities. Some of them are very useful, such as a junk file cleaner, but there are others that we can doubt without problem, such as some of the applications that come pre-installed on the system (and that we can eliminate in a very simple way) and others like app recommendations. Thanks to this function, the user can discover new applications that they may like. But what this option hides is that its intentions are simply commercial.
If Xiaomio sells its terminals in such a cheap way in relation to other brands (with the exception of Xiaomi Mi Note 10) it is thanks to the advertising included in the MIUI customization layer. This advertising, which many users have complained about as invasive or inappropriate for certain ages (children increasingly have access to mobile phones at an earlier age) will decrease in the successive versions of MIUI starting from number 10 But there is an option that remains even in MIUI 10 which is that of 'recommended or promoted applications'. How do we remove them? Do not lose detail because it is very simple.
How to remove 'promoted apps' on MIUI
If you have a version prior to MIUI 10 you will see 'promoted applications'. It is nothing but a series of sponsored applications that Xiaomi estimates that the user may be interested in. If it bothers you to see these promoted apps, let's do the following steps.
First you need to know what the 'App Vault' is. If we slide the screen from left to right, being on the home screen, we can see an information block in which we have various shortcuts and various information. One of these shortcuts is known as 'My applications' in which we find the apps that we use the most on a daily basis. If we open this screen, by default, at the bottom we can see these annoying recommended applications.
If we look at the previous screenshot, we must click where it says 'My applications'. The moment we press this option, the keyboard is automatically activated and we can change the title of this option to the one we want, in addition to appearing a switch that is the one we must deactivate so that the promoted applications no longer appear. can give us. If for whatever reason the option to change the name and delete the promoted applications does not appear, exit the vault, log in again and try again by performing the same operation.
How to remove recommended apps on MIUI
If you have MIUI 10 things change but we go back to the application vault, which is still located in the same place, sliding from left to right from the main desktop. If we look closely, the application vault appears configured by modular blocks. We can reorder these blocks or simply delete them so that they no longer appear. One of them is 'Recommended applications' and it is the one that we are not interested in appearing.
To remove it, we are going to go to the top right of the screen, to the gear icon. We click on it and here we can customize our vault. We go to the 'Recommended' module and click on the 'forbidden' icon. As we can see, it will have moved to the bottom of the screen. In this part we will have all the modules of the vault that are not of interest. We end up backing down and voila.
