Redmi Y2 Tips and Tricks

These are Redmi Y2 Tips and Tricks:

Disclaimer: Some features might’ve been removed with updates.

Full Screen Gestures: If you are a fan of the iPhone gestures and if you want something like that, even the Redmi phone offers it. To enable that, go to:
Settings – Select Full Screen Display – Select Full Screen Gestures.
Once you do that, make sure you enable the toggle. Now you can:
- Swipe up to go home
- Swipe and hold for recent apps
- Swipe left or right from the edges to go backNow if you enable the toggle Go back to Previous App, you can
  Swipe and hold to switch the current application with the previous application.
  
  Those were Full Screen Gestures. Xiaomi phones or the MIUI has the best out of all. The only con with these gestures is that we can’t trigger google assistant. So, if you want a shortcut to trigger Google assistant, refer to the next point.
Trigger Google Assistant: When you try to search something online, you might open Chrome and search there, or maybe to that from the search bar. But, there’s an easier way and you might already know it, that’s Google Assistant. You can say OK Google, to trigger it and then ask your query.If you want to use it without having to say OK Google, maybe in situations where you don’t want to talk, but you can listen, you can just press the power button to trigger it. Here’s how you can enable this feature:Go to Settings – Additional Settings – Select Button and Gesture Shortcuts – Scroll down and enable the toggle ‘Press and hold the Power Button for 0.5s to turn on Google Assistant’.

Once you do that you can use your power button to trigger Google assistant.

– You can just press and hold for half a second, to trigger Google assistant.
– If you press and hold the power button for three seconds, you will get the power options, that’s to power off and reboot.
– Finally, you can press and hold the power button indefinitely to restart the phone.
Fingerprint Shutter: If you want to take photos in a much easier way than having to tap the capture button on screen, you can just touch the fingerprint sensor for the phone to click a picture. To do that, you can go to:
Camera App – Tap on the Menu / Three lines on the top right corner – Tap on the Gear/Settings icon – Enable Fingerprint Shutter.
Once you enable it, simply touch the fingerprint scanner and your phone will take a picture. We can also start and stop video recording.
Disable Camera Sounds: While capturing photos, you might find the sound of the camera shutter to be annoying. So, if you want to disable camera sounds, go to:
Camera App – Tap on the Menu / Three lines on the top right corner – Tap on the Gear/Settings icon – Disable the toggle ‘Camera Sounds’.
Once you do that, you won’t hear any camera shutter sounds or other sounds from the camera application.
Split Screen Mode: When you want to multi-task between applications simultaneously, you can use split-screen mode. How it would work is, you can open two apps together. One of them will open in the top half of the screen and and other one in the bottom half.In order to use this feature, you can press and hold the recent apps button and split screen mode should turn on. But that’s disabled by default on this phone.
So if you want to open split screen mode by long pressing the recent apps button, this is what you need to do. Go to:

Settings – Select Additional Settings – Select Buttons and Gesture Shortcuts – Select Open Split Screen – Select ‘Long press menu button’.

Once you do that, you can simply press and hold recent apps button, to open the current application in a split-screen mode. Once you’re done, you can open the secondary application from the list below:

Or else you can go to the home screen and then select a secondary application from there:

Now, sometimes you try to open an application like phone dialer and it will open in a full-screen mode. So even though split-screen mode has been around for a long time, all the applications do not support it. To fix that, you need to enable Developer Options.
To do that, go to Settings – Select About phone – Tap on MIUI version seven times.
Once you do that, developer options will be enabled.Now go back a step scroll to the bottom – Select additional settings – Scroll to the bottom – Select developer options – Once again scroll all the way to the bottom – Enable Force Activities to be Re-sizable. Once you do that, you will be able to use all applications in the split-screen mode.
Display Sleep Time/Screen-Off Time: You can set a time when the display will turn off. To do that, go to:
Settings – Select Lock Screen Settings – Select Sleep – From this place you can change your display sleep time/screen off time. Usually, it should be in display settings, but for some reason on this phone or all the Xiaomi phones, you can find this option in lock screen settings:
Display RAM Usage: If you want to know your memory status, how much RAM your phone is consuming at the moment, you have to enable a settings toggle. To do that, go to:
Settings – Select Home Screen and Resents – Enable the toggle, Show memory status.

Now, you will be able to see memory usage or memory status in the recent apps page.
Remove/Block Advertisements: In Xiaomi/Redmi phones, you get advertisements in many Mi applications. To block them or remove them, you just need to open an Mi Application. Let’s take the example of Security app. After opening that app, go to:
Settings – Disable a toggle called ‘Recommendations’/’Receive Recommendations’.

If that setting is not found, it might be hidden in ‘About’ section of that application.
Similarly, you can find that setting in almost all the Mi applications that are showing you any kind of advertisements. Just disable ‘Recommendations’ and it should stop those applications from generating any ads.

Or else, whenever you see any advertisement in the notification area, just press and hold it, then select more settings, and block all the notifications from that application. That’s one easy way to do it.
Game Booster: If you play games a lot and need to enhance the gaming performance of your phone, you can enable Game Booster, if it’s not enabled by default. To enable it, open the security application –
Select Game Speed Boost.
From here, you can add all your games and if you go to settings section inside this app, you can do some pretty cool stuff, like ‘clearing cache’ whenever you try to open any game, ‘restrict background usage’, and enable ‘Do not disturb mode’, ‘turn on buttons’ and so on.

Now, whenever you open any game that’s listed in the Game Booster, you will see a button on the top left corner or the top right corner, just click it to get additional options.

So, from here you can either start video recording or else you can take a screenshot, there are options for speed boost, that’s clearing all the applications in the memory and then we can also block all banner notifications. All of this just improves your gaming experience.
Change Default Apps: You might use Chrome more than the default browser, but as you can’t delete the default browser, you can configure it to open Chrome whenever you open the default browser application.In the same way, you can change your default messaging application, default launcher, etc.
Now, if you want to have an app drawer or if you want the Poco launcher, you can install it from the Google Play store. Just search for Poco launcher and install it.

Now, if you want to set the Poco launcher as your default launcher, this is what you need to do. Go to:

Settings – Select Home Screen & Recents – Select Default launcher.

From here, you can select Poco launcher as your default launcher. So, from now on, whenever you press the home button you’ll directly go to the Poco launcher.

In the same way, if you want to change your default browser, default SMS application, and so on, this is what you can do, just go to:

Settings – Select Installed Apps – Select Menu – Select Default Apps – From here, you can change your default browser, camera application, gallery, music player, etc.
Three Finger Screenshot: First, the easiest way to take a screenshot is to press the volume down and power button at the same time. But, if that’s a bit difficult for you, you can also use the notification toggle.
Just pull down the notification panel and click on the toggle that says Screenshot, to take a screenshot.

Now if you want something easier than both of these, you also have a Three Finger Gesture. To enable that, go to:
Settings – Select ‘Additional Settings’ – Select ‘Buttons and Gesture Shortcuts’ – Select ‘Take a Screenshot’ – Select the first Option ‘Slide 3 fingers down’

Now this feature is enabled by default, so if you want to take a screenshot, simply swipe down on the display, using three fingers and your phone will take a screenshot. It is a convenient feature.
Long Screenshot: To take a longer screenshot, you need to take a regular screenshot. You can either use any of the three ways to take the screenshot and once you do that, you’ll get a preview:
Tap on that preview and select ‘Scroll’. Once you do that, the page will be automatically scrolled and you will get a longer screenshot. If you are done in between, just click the Done button at the bottom, to stop the scrolling. That’s the long screenshot.
Camera App Launch Short-Cut: To open camera application from anywhere very quickly, you need to enable this setting. Go to:Settings – Select Additional Settings – Select Buttons and Gesture Shortcuts – Select Launch Camera – Select Double press the power button. Once you do that, you can press the power button twice to open the camera application from anywhere, even from lock-screen.
How to Use Dual 4G: If you want to use two Sims with 4G, you need to go to Settings – Select ‘SIM card and Mobile Networks’ – Enable ‘Dual 4G’.If this toggle is not enabled, only one sim will be in 4G and other sim will be in 2G or 3G. So, once you enable this toggle, 2 Sims can be used in 4G and even VoLTE.
Record Calls: If you want to record all calls automatically on your phone:
Open Phone dialer – Tap Menu – Select Call Recording – Enable ‘Record Calls Automatically’. Once you do that, and select ‘All Numbers’ from options below – All the calls will be recorded automatically on your phone.

Note: This works in India, but might not work in other countries.
Incoming Call Settings: It has some pretty cool features.
Open Phone dialer – Tap Menu – Incoming Call Settings.

First we have ‘Flip to Silence Ringer‘. Once you enable this feature, every time you get a call, you can simply flip your phone to silence the caller.
Quiet Ringer: If your phone is on a flat surface and it’s ringing, once you pick it up, ringer gets silenced automatically.
Increased Ring Volume: Once you enable this feature, ringtone volume will increase gradually.
Display Battery Percentage: If you want to see the battery percentage on top of the screen, i.e., on the status bar, you need to enable this setting. Go to:
Settings – Select ‘Notifications and Status Bar’ – Select ‘Battery Indicator’ – Select ‘Percentage’, to display the battery percentage inside the battery icon on the status bar.
Display Network Usage: To display network usage on the status bar, you need to enable the setting. Go to:
Settings – Select Notifications and Status Bar – Enable Show Connection Speed to display the connection speed on the status bar, near the time.
Wi-Fi Assistant: As the name goes, it automatically switches between your Wi-Fi connections, depending upon the connection speed and signal strength. If, for some reason, your Wi-Fi network is not working and mobile data is turned on, it will automatically switch to mobile data.
As it’s an important feature, to enable it, go to:

Settings – Wi-Fi – Select ‘Additional Settings’ – Select ‘Wi-Fi Assitant’ – Enable toggle ‘Wi-Fi Assistant’. Now, mostly this would be enabled by default.
Traffic Mode: Let’s say you are playing PUBG game and you want the best experience. You don’t want any kind of lag, because of other applications. Just enable this feature and select ‘Extreme Mode’ below this toggle.
Once you enable this feature, and select ‘Extreme Mode’ only the current application will have priority over your internet access. To enable that, go to:

Settings – Wi-Fi – Select Additional Settings – Select Traffic Mode – Enable the toggle below that says, ‘Extreme Mode’.
Face Unlock Gestures: If you like face unlock, you need to definitely enable ‘Double Tap to Wake’ and ‘Raise to Wake’ features. You can use double tap to wake to double tap on the lock-screen to wake up the device. Raise to wake helps you to wake up the device by just raising up the device from the surface. To enable these, go to:
Settings – Display – Enable ‘Double Tap Screen to Wake’.

Once you do that, you can double tap the screen to wake it up, when it’s locked. Once it sees your face, it automatically unlocks the phone, as the Face Unlock feature is also enabled.

Next, you also have ‘Raise to Wake’ feature below the double tap to wake feature.
Once enabled, you can raise your phone to wake it up. Once again, when it sees your face and automatically unlocks the phone. Which just gives you a smooth experience.