Last week, rumours of Xiaomi ditching MIUI started cropping up across the internet, with a number of people hinting that the Chinese giant is set to retire the MIUI skin, replacing it with a new one that was possibly named MiOS. Well, it didn’t take long for us to get an answer, and while it won’t be called MiOS, Xiaomi is indeed retiring its MIUI operating system over 13 years since it first debuted.
Xiaomi’s upcoming operating system will instead be called Xiaomi HyperOS. According to their CEO Lei Jun, HyperOS will be making its debut on the Xiaomi 14 series, with Xiaomi Global Vice President Alvin Tse adding that it will be made available worldwide too, not just in China. Said to be based on a ‘completely new rewritten architecture‘, HyperOS will feature on future Xiaomi smartphones, gradually replacing MIUI and will also be used in their AIoT products too.
So excited about #XiaomiHyperOS, and everything else we've got up our sleeve (or in my hand😉). pic.twitter.com/gPifOLEIhk
— Lei Jun (@leijun) October 17, 2023
Lei Jun added that Xiaomi HyperOS is actually a combination of Android with their own Xiaomi Vela operating system, their proprietary AIoT technologies platform that they previously revealed back in 2020. This comes after 13 years of MIUI—with an install base going from the original hundred users to 1.175 billion MIUI users worldwide—and after 9 years of building IoT devices. Lei also noted that the plan to develop a new operating system to unify all of their devices and applications into a single ecosystem had originally started back in 2017.
A considerable amount of effort has been devoted to this new operating system. In 2014, when our IoT business began to grow, we tested various ideas and experiments. In 2017, we began developing an operating system to unify all devices and applications in our ecosystem.
— Lei Jun (@leijun) October 17, 2023
Xiaomi though isn’t sharing much about how HyperOS looks and feels like just yet. However, we do know that they were at least going to call it MiOS, with Xiaomi having registered the domain mios.cn a while back. It’s likely that they pivoted into the name HyperOS when they realised that the mios.com doman had already been registered by another separate, unrelated software company. Xiaomi has also already been registering the trademarks for ‘Xiaomi Hyper’ and ‘Redmi Hyper’, perhaps indicating that HyperOS will be coming to its sub-brand soon too.
