Till MIUI 13, the users measured their battery usage levels via their settings app. This was the popular MIUI feature. They were looking onto their screen on time (SOT), but in MIUI 13, Xiaomi has removed this feature. But why?
What is Screen On Time?
Screen-on Time is the amount of time in hours that a device’s display is open. This single feature is used if your battery is going on the right track by having the intended amount of SOT time, a mid-range device usually gets 5 to 6 hours of SOT normally. If your battery is well, dead, you can’t be getting that much of a SOT, rather get 3 hours of SOT in total.
Most of the Xiaomi users have been measuring their battery life by their SOT usage, it is unknown why Xiaomi has done this. But it’s probably the reason that Xiaomi is trying to say “our batteries are always good, we don’t need a function like that to make our end users measure the battery level.”
The left one is the MIUI 13’s battery screen. And the right one is MIUI 12.5’s Battery page, with SOT measurement on it.
Why Xiaomi Removed This Popular MIUI Feature?
It is really unknown why Xiaomi did this, but let’s hope that it will return in another UI overhaul update, let’s say, in MIUI 13.5. Another guess about this is that Google will remove this feature with Android 12. Because most of the users will in fact report this to Xiaomi themselves, and Xiaomi will probably read this feature back onto your device without you even noticing it.