HyperOS 3 For India: 10 New Features!

HyperOS 3 for India introduces several new features and improvements, including an enhanced Hyper Island, expanded lock screen and home screen customization, refined UI animations, and advanced cross-device interconnectivity.

• Hyper Island brings dynamic activity management and floating windows to Xiaomi phones.

• Extensive customization for lock screens and home screens includes new icons and widgets.

• Enhanced interconnectivity allows seamless integration with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices.

HyperOS 3 is now available in India, bringing a range of new features and improvements, particularly in user interface customization and system fluidity. Key updates include the Hyper Island, offering dynamic activity management, extensive lock screen personalization, and redesigned home screen icons and widgets. The system also boasts significant upgrades to interconnectivity, allowing seamless integration with iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, alongside refined AI capabilities within system apps.

Hyper Island & Lock Screen

• 00:00:21 HyperOS 3 introduces 'Hyper Island,' Xiaomi's take on dynamic activities, supporting up to three simultaneous live activities for music, timers, voice recording, and charging, with smooth animations and the ability to convert activities into floating windows. The lock screen also gains enhanced customization, allowing users to save multiple wallpaper setups, mix and match clock styles with any wallpaper, and access new classic wallpapers with depth effects, though some advanced AI wallpaper effects from the Chinese version are currently missing.

Home Screen & UI Refinements

• 00:01:50 The home screen features refreshed system app icons for a more modern look, alongside new widgets for pets and weather to personalize the interface. The search button is now an AI home search, capable of searching phone files, and the control center has a more colorful design with white-backed tiles and updated Wi-Fi and battery icons in the status bar. System apps like Gallery and Voice Recorder also received minor makeovers, with the Gallery gaining rounded menus and improved sorting, while overall UI animations are fine-tuned for a smoother, more polished experience.

Advanced Interconnectivity

• 00:03:30 Xiaomi Interconnectivity receives major upgrades, extending support beyond other Xiaomi devices to include iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This enables features such as syncing iPhone notifications to a Xiaomi phone, controlling a Xiaomi phone's hotspot from an iPhone, and mirroring a Xiaomi phone directly onto a Mac. Users can also unlock their phone using Touch ID on a Mac and effortlessly drag and drop files and photos between devices or open four different phone apps on the Mac.

AI Features & Missing Elements

• 00:04:10 HyperOS 3 enhances existing AI features rather than introducing new ones, offering capabilities within the Gallery app like image expansion, Ultra HD upscaling, and an effective AI sky feature, alongside AI writing tools for summarizing and polishing text. The recording app provides multi-speaker detection with translation and AI speech recognition, while Gemini is integrated with system apps like Calendar and Notes. However, some desired features, such as customizable control center layouts, haptics for volume/brightness adjustment, lock screen widgets, and certain native Android 16 features, are still absent from the India release.