Later the last month, Xiaomi has begun sending the stable MIUI 12.5 update for its smartphones in China. A bunch of phones including Mi 11, Mi 10 Ultra, Mi 9 SE, Mi 10, and Mi 10 Pro has already received the update.
Meanwhile, on April 6, the Xiaomi group celebrated the company’s 11th establishment anniversary in which, the OEM announced the stable MIUI 12.5 rollout plan for its phones.
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According to the plan, all devices that are eligible for the first phase have received the update. Whereas the second phase devices will start getting MIUI 12.5 updates later this month.
Now Xiaomi executive has confirmed that the MIUI 12.5 will also arrive on older devices such as Xiaomi Mi 8 series, MIX 2S, and MIX 3. The company rolled out the MIUI 12 update for the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S and MIX 3 back in August 2020.
The devices didn’t make the cut in the Android 11 eligible devices list, still, are said to get the MIUI 12.5 update as per the Xiaomi executive Zhang Guoquan’s post on Weibo.
He says that the MIX 2S has Snapdragon 845 chipset and the engineers have worked on the MIUI 12.5 on its update together with MIX 3. Speaking of which, the MIX 3, which also has a Snapdragon 845 chipset, launched with MIUI 10 while the MIX 2S came with MIUI 9 out of the box.
Therefore, the MIUI 12.5 will be the fourth MIUI update for the MIX 2S while the MIX 3 will get it as a third major update. It is appreciable of Xiaomi to support older flagships despite them going past the software support period.
Zhang further said that along with the MIX devices, the Xiaomi Mi 8, Mi 8 Explorer Edition will also get the MIUI 12.5 update. However, he hasn’t mentioned the 5G version of the Mi MIX 3 5G but we can expect it to be on the roster.
He also said that the update will come a little later after the company finishes the pending projects and ensures the test build is free of bugs.
