Although, surely it is something that you already imagine on your own, the use of mobile phones is increasing, since it has become a tool with many functions, it no longer only serves to make calls or to keep in touch. And not only this, but it has also been transformed into a camera or a means to be informed, which causes us to spend many hours on the screen.
Therefore, if we want to know exactly the consumption we make of Xiaomi smartphones, we have several options that make it easier for us to know. From the hand of MIUI we have at our disposal the possibility of seeing the total time that we have used the screen since the last charge cycle, but if we want to keep a greater control we will also have the possibility of doing so. In any Chinese phone, regardless of the price range, we will be able to know this information that we will explain to you.
For serving us?
However, the truth is that there are for whom this function is essential, for others it goes very unnoticed or they do not even consider using it after knowing it. However, the hours of use that we make of the smartphone can serve us for several things that we are going to explain to you.
Know if you use it too much
In the first place, this tool, so useful to many, will help us to know how long we have been looking at the mobile display and thus know if perhaps we have used it more than necessary. That is, if we have wasted too many hours in front of the touch panel of the phone and we have paid attention to all our responsibilities.
But, the screen hours can also serve for more things, such as discovering if the battery status is ideal . Although it is not a perfect calculation such as the health functions that we have in iOS, it will help us to know the display time that the mobile gives us each day.
In addition, following a routine it will be easy to check how long a full charge allows us to use it. All this will depend on other aspects such as the GPS of the mobile, the use of the camera or the brightness of the screen. Those aspects are the ones that will make the most difference, without forgetting that demanding games also increase processor consumption.
Surely, at the beginning of having the mobile, the hours of the panel are very different from those we obtain after 2 years of use and one way to keep this under control is through the control that we can do with these functions that we have known.
Unnecessary consumption
Once inside the Digital Wellbeing section of the Chinese phone settings, we will see a circle in which we can see different colors. Each one tries to show us in a visual and simple way which application or sections we have used the most to try to control this.
In addition, when accessing the rest of the data, we can see that the minutes we have dedicated to each of the apps are shown exactly at the bottom.
To make it more complete, we can also observe the number of unlocks made throughout the day, which is also a fundamental part of mobile use, and even the number of notifications. But, the most important thing is that we will see if there is any software that consumes more than the account and we do not use. More than anything, because in this way we can discover if that application that we do not use should be deleted or not, since its battery consumption is too much for the little that we open it.
See the hours in MIUI
In the change from one version to another of the Chinese customization layer, we find that the modifications are purely aesthetic for this information and, therefore, we will have to follow the same steps although visually it is something different. So we will explain how you have to understand this panel from top to bottom, which has changed its appearance in the different updates.
Understand the usage time
This same mechanism is the one that is still present in MIUI 12 and that extends to all the brand’s smartphones. To know the screen hours since the last charge cycle of our mobile we just have to follow these steps:
- We start by accessing the device settings.
- Then we go to the battery and performance section.
- Next, click on battery usage statistics. In MIUI 12 or another higher version we will then touch on Hardware.
- Finally we touch on the panel section and we can see the use in hours, minutes and seconds.
With this information, we can draw conclusions about the performance of the battery of our Xiaomi mobile, finding out if we really do a series of good consumptions. This is also linked to the time the smartphone has been on without being used, so we should not always rely on this information to assess the battery.
For days
If we have Android 10 and MIUI 11 on our mobile, or higher versions, we will be able to carry out a more exhaustive control of the hours of use in Xiaomi . Based on Google’s own digital well-being function, we will be able to have access to the control of the time we use the device each day from two in the evening until the natural day is completed.
To access this information we will go to the settings of our terminal and look for the section called ‘Digital well-being and parental control’. Once inside we will have to activate it the first time we access and then we can see the number of hours and minutes that we have spent looking at the mobile throughout the day. To obtain more information we will touch on the sphere that will take us to a graph showing exactly the time that we have used each of the applications of our Xiaomi.
Can it be limited?
This tool will not only warn us of the amount of minutes we spend using the phone. If not, it also offers us a functionality with which to limit a person from using the device.
It is a method of control over the youngest, to try to limit the time they use the mobile . For this reason, through the digital well-being tool that we have known, we will be able to start counters. If we do not want our children or relatives to spend too much time using an app, be it a game or a social network, we are going to have to start this as we explained.
- We enter the Settings.
- We touched on Digital Wellbeing and Parental Controls.
- Then it will be time to touch the hourglass that appears next to each app.
- So we can choose if we want the application to be accessible for 30 minutes, an hour or more.
Once children have used this software for the set time, it will be closed and they will not be able to use it until after midnight, when the counter resets and counting begins again. However, from the settings, the kids could do the same as us to change it. To make sure that this does not happen, right at the end of the Digital Wellbeing control, we have the parental control options.
By linking a mobile and our son’s, we will be able to slow down the time of use of the applications without him knowing it and he cannot do anything to avoid it as if it happened when executing the change on his smartphone. Other settings that are within that parental control are those that allow you to choose which apps can or cannot download from Google Play and even the permissions they have.
