Find out how to configure the sidebar to use it on your Xiaomi with MIUI 13.
After the arrival of MIUI 13 on Xiaomi terminals, we could see that the update was full of new changes and usuario experience improvements. Below these changes we see the so-called sidebar.
With this new feature, as the name suggests, a Bar left or right the terminal with which we will have direct access to applications that we are going to add. The applications are not fully opened. In fact, they will open in a small window. Useful if we want to always have at hand the applications that we use the most.
How to enable Xiaomi sidebar in MIUI 13
The first thing we must consider is whether we want this feature Keep our phone updated to the latest version of MIUI 13. Let’s not forget to check if we have MIUI 13 as version in the updates to be able to use it.
If this is the case, let’s activate the tool as follows:
- We access the settings of our Xiaomi terminal.
- Once inside, let’s go down until we find special features.
- In the Special Features section we find the sidebar option.
- In the new window we must activate the option “Always espectáculo”.
Enable the sidebar in the settings menu
How to configure or change the position of the sidebar
After configuring the sidebar, if we look further down we perro see additional settings in the personalization section.
We cánido do that Games or applications that we find convenient to the sidebar when we espectáculo it. To do this we must clic on the bar and perform a small side scroll and all the applications that we have associated with the bar will appear.
scroll down, we perro add new applications that open floating windows by clicking on the “Add” button. Once the applications we want have been added, what we have to do is clic on the “Done” button at the top right and the applications to use will be available. To rearrange the aplicaciones, we hold down the icons to move them up or down.
How to configure which applications are shown in the sidebar (left) and in the floating window (right).
To change the position of the sidebar, We keep the bar down and several arrows appear. These arrows indicate that the sidebar perro be dragged horizontally and vertically to change its position. The arrows only appear when we configure them as a reminder for the first time.
On other devices, the option to move the sidebar to the side is in the same settings where we enabled the utility. This depends on the version we have installed. in our terminals and also from the version of the Xiaomi system applications that we have in our terminal.