How to customize the status bar on Xiaomi phone running MIUI V5 ?

Here are a few basic ways to customize the status bar on your Xiaomi phone running MIUI V5:

i. Showing/Hiding service provider name on the status bar

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications.
3. Tap Additional settings.
4. Slide the Show service provider switch on/off.

ii. Showing/Hiding screen capture notification on the status bar

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications.
3. Tap Additional settings.
4. Slide the Show screenshot notification switch on/off.
   

iii. Showing/Hiding Show connection speed on the status bar.

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications.
3. Slide the Show connection speed switch on/off.
   

iv. Showing/Hiding notification from a app on the status bar.

If the icon on the status bar is generated from an app notification, you can show/hide it using the following steps:

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications.
3. Tap Manager notifications.
4. Find and tap the app you want to disable the notification on the status bar.
5. Slide the Show in status bar switch on/off.
   

or

1. On your Xiaomi phone find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Apps.
3. Tap All.
4. Find and tap the app you want to disable the notification on the status bar.
5. Tap custom notification.
6. Slide the Show in status bar switch on/off.

v. Changing the battery indicator on the status bar

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Battery.
3. Tap Battery indicator.
4. Select either Graphical, Percentage or Tap bar.
   

vi. Changing the time format on the status bar

1. On your Xiaomi phone, find and launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Date & time.
3. Slide the Use 24-hour format switch on/off.
   

Note: The more advanced customizations might involve editing the status_bar.xml which requires decompilation/compilation of MiuiSystemUI.apk. It won’t be covered in this blog. I would suggest that you get this information from the MIUI forum.

Note: The steps here were written for a Xiaomi device running MIUI V5. If you’re having a different version of MIUI, there’s a possibility that the steps and screenshots will be different.