Xiaomi MIUI 12 global launch today at 5:30 PM: What to expect and how to watch it live

Xiaomi will be announcing the global variant of MIUI 12 today via an online event. The successor to MIUI 11 is expected to bring a host of new features and is expected to be a massive upgrade over MIUI 11. The ROM was announced for Xiaomi’s home market China a few weeks back giving a glimpse of some of the new features that will be hitting Xiaomi phones later this year.

How to watch MIUI 12 Global Launch online?

MIUI 12 will be unveiled at an online event that will start from 5:30 PM in India. Xiaomi India VP Manu Kumar Jain shared a link to the live stream on his Twitter feed and initiating banter around the ROM’s India availability. You can head to the live stream directly from the link embedded below —

At the event, Xiaomi is not only expected to outline the new features of the custom skin, but also the schedule for global availability of the same. Here are some of the big features that the Chinese version of MIUI 12 has received. It remains to be seen how many of these make it to the global variant.

What to expect from MIUI 12?

MIUI 12 is expected to bring a big change in the design aesthetics of the custom skin. Xiaomi will be focusing on a minimalist approach to design with MIUI 12 that will feature three individual rendering engines with multiple animations across the UI. The UI will be capable of inducing real-time colours, blur along with better integration with the hardware.

MIUI 12 is also expected to bring new icons, fonts and an iOS-like control centre along with gesture navigation and live wallpapers. There are animated elements even in the Settings app while new features like floating windows will be introduced.

Privacy-centric upgrades will include a new “App behaviour records” page where you can keep a track of the permissions granted to apps and when and how they use them.