Hide icons status bar MIUI 13

Question

I am trying to hide some status bar icons on MIUI 13.

Do you know of a way to hide icons such as Roaming, Mute, DND...?

I tried these without success:

• adb shell settings put secure icon_blacklist zen,mute,volume
• Using the SystemUI Tuner app, grating all permissions.
• Using the Activity Launcher and opening the System UI demo mode.
• ADB AppControl

Answer 1

I just went through the same on a POCO X5 5G and got the "requires:android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" error.

Went looking for that "second USB debugging" that @peterkodermac mentioned and found it labelled "OEM unlocking".

The command

adb shell settings put secure icon_blacklist nfc

then worked well. No need to have the "zen" and "volume" things there... I'm not sure they do anything.

Don't forget to re-enable OEM unlocking after this. The phone will say that it needs to reboot in order to enable it again... fine!

Answer 2

Old question but I faced the same issue so here is how I fixed it.

0. First you must have the Developer status enabled.

1. Then enable the following settings in the Developer options:

   USB debugging

   Wireless debugging

   USB debugging (Security settings)

2. Restart phone and connect it to your computer where ABD is downloaded

3. Open terminal where ADB is unzipped

4. Do the following commands:

    ./adb devices
   

   This should list the device and show it connected

   ./adb shell settings put secure icon_blacklist nfc,zen,volume
   
   

   This will hide, respectively, the nfc icon, the dnd moon crescent icon and the muted bell icon