Software updates are an essential aspect of our phones, also of a Xiaomi, and there are different ways to carry them out, even automatically, when they are done through Wifi or mobile data. In the latter case, you can schedule specific hours for your Xiaomi mobile to download these software updates.
Updates do not always have to have a large data size. In addition, more and more users have data plans with unlimited gigabytes, which can allow the download of these updates without fear that they can leave us without data.
Set a period for automatic downloads
Well, if you don’t mind that the system updates, regardless of their size, are downloaded via the data connection , you can schedule those downloads at certain times, so that they do not affect the performance of the mobile network to which you are connected . This is something that can be done within the settings of the software updates. For this, what we must do is do the following:
- Enter the phone settings with MIUI
- Click on “phone information”
- Click on “system update”
- Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right of the screen
- In turn, click on “update settings”
- Now within these options activate the option “download using mobile data”
- Below you can adjust download schedules
This is where you can choose at what time you want the updates to be downloaded using mobile phone data. You can choose one now in which automatic downloads will be activated, and another one in which from that time there will be no more downloads using this method. In this way we can force the mobile to update even when it is far from the Wifi network. Naturally, most will choose to have the downloads done via Wi-Fi connection, but if we are away from home or away from Wi-Fi for a long period of time, and our data plan is not going to be resented, we can force the downloads to continue performing when there are new system updates.
And we do not speak for example only of the largest MIUI, which can weigh one, two, or three gigabytes, but there are also many as security patches with a lower weight that can also be downloaded using this method through mobile data Although we are far from Wifi. You can also schedule the updates to be carried out during the night , activating the “automatically install” function on the same screen, so downloading and installing updates will be forced when we are not using the mobile at night. So it is another alternative to schedule updates.