Xiaomi blocking screen

Xiaomi trick to avoid screen blocking when you are watching it

If you get flustered when the Xiaomi Smartphone screen blocks when you are watching it, check out the trick in this article. There’s  very practical feature to avoid screen blocking when you are reading or watching something carefully  without touching it.

The Xiaomi screen blocking is very normal when you are using a holder but it can also happen when listening to music or watching a movie. But luckily it’s very easy to prevent with a movement detection feature. Here you will learn how to set this Xiaomi trick to prevent screen blocking.

Xiaomi screen blocking feature

Active visual perception and the Xiaomi trick against screen blocking

The Active Visual Perception is a Xiaomi feature that uses frontal camera to detect your presence. It can avoid screen blocking in Xiaomi devices and it works almost immediately. In a few words, it can detect you are reading but the moment you deviate your eyes, it blocks the screen. In order to enable Xiaomi trick for screen blocking follow these steps:

  1. Enable the Active visual Perception feature
  2. Go to Settings menu in your Xiaomi Smartphone.
  3. Press on Additional Settings.
  4. Look for Active visual perception.
  5. Toogle it on.
  6. Confirm the security permissions.

Once you have followed these steps, you can enjoy the new feature that detects your sight focused on the screen. It can prevent screen blocking when you are reading or paying attention to some image or conversation without touching the screen. It’s a great feature to avoid being turning the screen on every time.

If you have set your configuration to block screen after certain amount of time, you can also consider to prolong that time. Or you can choose Active visual perception in order for the Xiaomi device to detect when you are looking at the screen before blocking it. It’s easy to enable and disable and you can do it in several Xiaomi mobile phones.


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