Xiaomi launched its Poco F1 smartphone in India last year and touted it to offer Snapdragon 845 SoC at an affordable price. When launched, the smartphone ran Android 8.1 Oreo and later, it got the update to Android Pie. Now, the Poco F1 is getting the new MIUI v10.3.5.0 update along with the new May 2019 Android Security patch. The new update is already being rolled out and it comes with features like customizable lock screen clock and a dual app function fix. The rollout of the new update for the Poco F1 was confirmed by the company’s General Manager C Manmohan. In addition to this, it has also been confirmed that Poco F1 will be getting the Android Q update.
The news about the update of Poco F1 was revealed on Tuesday where Manmohan tweeted a screenshot of the MIUI v10.3.5.0. This confirmed the rollout of MIUI’s latest update for Poco F1, that is 387MB in size.
The users of the Poco F1 will receive the notification about the new update automatically. However, if they don’t, they can manually check for the updates too. For doing this, they need to go to Settings>About Phone. After that, they have to click on System update to download it. It should be noted that the update is currently being rolled out in phases and it would take around a week before it reaches all the users.
As per the official changelog of the new update, Poco F1 is getting May 2019 Android Security patch. Other than that, users will get the ability to customize the lock screen clock of their Poco F1. The new MIUI update also brings sorting principles of the Wi-Fi networks and fixes the problem of disappearance of dual apps after a reboot. The new update has also got the performance upgrades along with other bug fixes for the Poco F1.
Hey POCO fans, we have started rolling out the new June stable update for #POCOF1. It has the security update, lock screen customizations and many more. Do check out the cool new features in the update🙂
P.S: Please note that the rollout will happen in batches. pic.twitter.com/lj40d08rhj
— C Manmohan #POCOForIndia (@cmanmohan) June 18, 2019
As we mentioned earlier, Poco F1 will be getting Google’s upcoming Android Q update. This was confirmed by Poco Global Head Alvin Tse through a tweet. In his tweet, he confirmed that the Poco F1 will be receiving the new Android Q update once it rolls out. He also mentioned that MIUI 11 is not far away for the Poco F1. But Tse didn’t mention the date of the release and the MIUI version which will come with Android Q for Poco F1.
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