How is the Xiaomi Mi Band Turned on and Off?

Very simple, it cannot be done by physical means. The bracelet does not have an “off” button, unless the bracelet runs out of power. The same happens when turning it on, we simply have to connect it to the current through the charger so that it turns on. We are not going to beat around the bush, to deactivate the Xiaomi Mi Band you will have to wait several days for it to show the low battery warning to ignore it and wait for it to wear out completely. “But this is absurd! I want to turn off the bracelet to save battery and not show me notifications when I want!” Bad luck. There’s no human way to do it unless you knock it out of battery … or smash it with a hammer.

Although there is no option to disconnect it permanently, we can block it to avoid prying eyes until the battery runs out or restart it to try to alleviate any failure that drags the device.

And why can’t the Mi Band be turned off?

Any of the many Xiaomi models that we currently have on the market cannot be turned off unless the bracelet runs out of electrical charge. But if I don’t use it, what happens to the messages I receive? Why, if I leave my bracelet at home, can someone check the history of notifications that I have received on the smartband?

Well, that we should ask Xiaomi and almost any manufacturer of this type of device because the same thing happens in all of them. It cannot be disconnected, but we can block them so that, when we remove it from our wrist, a lock code is displayed on the screen so that nothing and no one can see what we receive.

Alternatives to a normal shutdown

Although you cannot leave the Xiaomi bracelet off, there are a series of actions that you can carry out so that nothing and no one can take a look at the messages we receive in it or other types of private content.

Mi Band lock

As tenths, locking the bracelet is the closest option to turning it off that we will find in the settings, not of the Mi Band, but of Mi Fit, its control app. This option is only compatible with the Mi Band 4 onwards.

To do this, the first thing you have to do is make sure that the device connects correctly with the phone and then open My Fit and select the “Profile” menu at the bottom right of the home page.

From this page you will have to select the Mi Band you are using and access the smartband configuration. Once inside, select the option “Lab” , where the functions in tests of the brand for its bracelets are shown.

Here, as you can guess, the option you have to mark is the “bracelet lock” , which will take you to a screen where you will see the interface for entering the PIN or password. After entering a 4-digit code, reconfirm the password and click “Save” at the top right.

If you have done it correctly, after removing any Mi Band compatible with this function from your wrist, when you try to turn on the screen you will see that it requires a password to unlock it.

Restart the Xiaomi bracelet

To turn off the bracelet of the Chinese firm, at least for a few seconds, let’s access the “More” menu of the bracelet (which if you have not reconfigured it, it will appear at the end of everything after the notifications). Here we must access the lower menu called Settings and, from the available options, choose Restart . This will turn the bracelet off and on as if it were a mobile.

Activate Do Not Disturb Mode

From the bracelet itself you can “cap” the alerts so that they do not bother you at night, in a meeting, or whenever you want. To do this, scroll once more to the More menu and access the first option: Do Not Disturb . Here you can activate it, deactivate it, or enable its intelligence function that detects when you have fallen asleep to stop showing notifications.

That is the closest thing the Chinese brand’s device offers to turning it off completely, restricting alerts and notifications although the step count, sleep record or heart rate meter will continue to work unless you leave the Mi Band in a drawer.

Let your smartband battery drain

As we have already said, the most extreme option is to let the battery drain. The Xiaomi Mi Band, if they can boast of anything, it is autonomy, especially the first editions that did not have a screen or were monochrome. It reaches in some models up to almost a month of operation. If we want it to turn off after fully charging it, letting the battery drain, it may even exceed that figure. Of course, this is not a valid option if you are in a hurry or want to shut it down quickly.

Remove the synchronization with your mobile and reset the factory

Another extreme method so that, at least, whoever takes the Mi Band cannot gossip your messages and notifications is, first, to eliminate the synchronization with the mobile to which it is linked and, later, to make sure that it remains as “fresh out of the box “until your battery runs out of power, press” Factory reset “in the same Settings menu in which, previously, we have shown you how to restart the device.

It is something designed for those who already want to leave it in the drawer and forget about the problem because, as we have indicated, an unused Mi Band can take months to fully download.