Emir BardakçıXiaomi has legally updated its 2025 bootloader unlocking policy, with stricter terms having a profound impact on device owners who seek to have them unlocked. The new terms, applicable starting January 1, 2025, introduce new requirements for unlocking, in a general direction towards heightened security protocols in the industry.
Key Updates in Xiaomi 2025 Bootloader Unlock Policy
The updated requirements for unlocking present two important restrictions:
- Single Device Rule: Users must go through all of these processes—responding to queries, registering, applying, binding, unlocking, and using an unlocked device—in a single device. Users can no longer switch between devices in between, and all actions will then become tied to a single Xiaomi smartphone.
- Time Limit for Unlocking: After having received unlocking qualification, users will have to complete unlocking and binding in 336 hours (14 days). Users will have to reapply for unlocking permission in case of failure to comply with such a timeline.
These changes will restrict unlocking even further and will make device modifications less accessible to unauthorized individuals and will make it even safer.
First Unlocker Bootloader Set for February 18, 2025
Xiaomi’s bootloader unlocking app page has been updated, and the first unlocking quiz will begin at 10:00 AM February 18, 2025. The quiz will most likely assess users’ acquaintance with Xiaomi’s policies and with unlocking its danger, in an attempt to make them aware of the consequences in advance.
Further Lockdowns of Bootloader Unlocking
This update follows a significant policy change that only allows unlocking one bound device for an account for its duration of use. Previously, three devices could be unlocked for an account, but that is lowered to one device in its current state.
The decision comes in a larger industry direction in which big smartphone companies are tightening down its bootloader unlocking terms in an era of security concerns. With custom ROM use in a downturn and companies prioritizing protecting information, even Xiaomi, with its relatively relaxed stance in the past, is following in similar direction with stricter terms for its counterparts.
Why is Xiaomi tightening its bootlocker unlocking requirements?
Several factors have contributed towards this policy switch:
- Security Issue: Unlocking a device’s bootloader can expose it to security vulnerabilities, including malware, root access, and loss of data.
- Decline in Flashing Market: Fewer and fewer people are flashing custom ROMs, and less demand for an opening unlocking system, therefore,
- Preventing Illegal Re-sales: Securing bootloaders can inhibit illegal operations, such as illegal phone refurbishment and resale with changed software.
How will it affect Users of Xiaomi?
For enthusiasts who bootload and custom-ROM install regularly, and even tinker with, a device, such new restrictions will make such processes cumbersome for them. With a single device per period, one will have to make a wise choice of a device to bootload, and then have to work under a 14-day restriction, too.
However, for most general Xiaomi users who don’t partake in flashing and custom ROM installation, these will have little impact. Instead, they will serve to fortify security and make for a safer software environment.
Final Thoughts
With the tightening of its bootloader unlocking policies, Xiaomi is moving in a developing industry direction towards security over customizability. As infuriating a move such a development will be for enthusiasts and programmers, it is in harmony with broader concerns over device integrity and software security.
For those unboxing and unloocking a new device in 2025, knowing about these new requirements, adhering to all of them in one device, and getting them completed in 14 days is important. Stay tuned for future updates when Xiaomi launches its first quiz on February 18, 2025
fuck you, narrow-eyed faggots, with your xiaomi
what about Chinese devices? Will they be allowed to unlock under the new rules?
Currently is near impossible to get permission to even link the device to one account in developer settings.
I own a Xiaomi 14 Chinese version for almost a year, and was not able to get unlock permission
sir,
I geek person like me in Indian only buy a xiaomi or a poco device as it is because we can install custom rom in it….
If you guys don’t let us unlock the bootloader then there is not much reason left to buy a xiaomi device over An IQOO smartphone…
People will go for iqoo smartphone for gaming….
people will go for Realme smartphone for display quality….
or and people like me who love custom rom will go for Nothing or OnePlus.
what is the website that you get the quiz from when it’s open
Do you not see my feedback? I have written three days ago update Poco m6 pro 5g, blur the contol center and solve the bug issue.
By the way, sharing thoughts here makes differcnce?
Xiaomi should allow users to switch any official rom on their devices without hassle.
i have 1 new phone EU dist And Ota not working here Is 1 Chance to update ……. unlock bootloader bcs Ota zip cannot ve verifed
WTF? which quit ?
can be bootloader unlocked normal like before in unlocktool? i mean in devices which got miui installed there no hyperos or need also wait 14 days ? and make this quiz ?
Get ready to loose more customers because I can’t use a device without unlocking the bootloader. I tweak a lot.
Ever since I introduce Xiaomi products to my work place, they no longer buy other products.
remember other device like oneplus, nothing phone, pixel etc are out in the market, nothing is stopping us from using such devices.
Currently I’m a dealer of mi products, i sell phones.i have in my store Poco X6, Poco X6 pro, Poco M6 pro and Redmi note 13. I’m expecting poco x7 and other brands of phones such as Pixel and Nothing phone.
if a customer decides to unlock bootloader, I don’t think is your business.
Truth be told I don’t use stock ROM, currently using Oneplus 12R with nice custom ROM on it.
Don’t deprive your customers from using what they want.
thanks
It’s a good time to switch to Samsung😐🤧
Well, the famous day and time arrived. Website does not function. No unlock bootloader possible, no quiz, no application form. Unethical and cheating impression left.
I have been a fan of Xiaomi since the Xiaomi Mi 5. We have come a long way in these 9 years. From installing other OS on your smartphones to writing custom firmware with the functions the user needs. All your communities grew out of a multitude of forums where people experimented with your phones. Many user decisions were included in your patch packages. Now you have decided to become an Apple company, justifying all this by concern for security. You can tell anyone about security and how important it is, but not Russians. We have an example of our country, what this unhealthy concern for security leads to. This is where my passion for Xiaomi will end, I will find another brand that will allow me to do whatever I want with my smartphone. And I wish you success in competing with Apple and Samsung, let’s see how you will succeed without your own chip production. I hope you have studied the history of Nokia, LG, HTC well.
hyperos is a bad update miui android 13 is best update
has anyone been able to find a good alternative to xiaomi that can easily unlock bootloader?