How to Remove Mi browser from Swipe Up Gesture and Disable Browser Completely

While custom Android skins have cool features, they’re also infamous for bloatware, adware, and promoting their apps where possible. One such case is with phones running MIUI where the Mi browser opens if you swipe up from the home screen. If this bothers you, we will explain here how to disable Mi Browser during a swipe motion.

The browser itself would not be a problem. But it is filled with announcements and a horrible news feed. Accidentally swiping on the home screen would shame anyone. But do not worry. There is a simple way to disable the unwanted function.

Let’s see how to remove the up swipe gesture that opens Mi Browser on Xiaomi phones. As a bonus, you can also read how to completely deactivate Mi Browser and other amazing tips for Mi Browser. Let’s start.

How to Stop the Mi Browser Swiping Up on the Home Screen

Here are the steps:

Step 1: Open the settings on your Mi phone.

2nd step: Tap Home screen or Home screen and Recents depending on the option available on your phone.

Stage 3: Disable the toggle next to Swipe up on the home screen to open the search.

Now if you swipe up on the home screen, nothing will happen.

How to disable the Mi browser

It is not possible to completely deactivate or delete the Mi Browser application from your phone, as it is a system application. However, there are several tips you can follow to prevent Mi Browser from boring you. First, you can turn off the news feed, followed by notifications. Then you can replace your default browser with another browser such as Chrome, Samsung Internet or Firefox.

Let’s check the steps for each of them.

How to stop the newsfeed in the Mi browser

If you agree to opening the browser from the swipe up gesture and only want to turn off the feed, you can do that too.

To do this, follow these steps:

Step 1: Open Mi Browser directly by pressing its icon.

2nd step: Tap the three bar icon at the top. Then tap the settings icon.

Step 3: Disable the toggle for the content feed.

Point: We covered in detail the removal of the news feed from Mi Browser. Check this out.

How to turn off notifications on the Mi browser

Another annoying part of Mi Browser is unwanted notifications. Fortunately, you can also turn them off. For that, proceed as following:

Step 1: Open Settings on your phone and go to Manage apps.

2nd step: Tap on Browser. Then tap Notifications.

Stage 3: Disable the toggle next to Show notifications.

Note: This will disable all notifications from the Mi Browser. You should only do this if you are not using Mi Browser at all.

Alternatively, when you receive a notification, swipe slightly left on the notification in the notification panel. Then tap the settings icon. Disable the toggle.

Note: Even though the screenshot above says Telegram, the steps for Mi Browser are the same.

How to change the default browser from Mi to Chrome

There are three ways to change the default browser on phones running MIUI. Let’s see them.

Method 1: Remove the default Mi browser

In this method, you will remove the Mi browser as the default browser in the application settings. Here are the steps:

Step 1: Launch Mi Browser and access its settings. To do this, tap the three-bar icon at the top and tap the settings icon.

2nd step: Disable the toggle next to Set as default browser.

Good Bye Mi Browser

Sometimes a simple gesture can be pain in the neck. Fortunately, things are easy to fix. We hope you were able to prevent Mi Browser from accidentally opening by swiping up.