Xiaomi’s official Weibo account dedicated to MIUI yesterday continued its barrage of dropping teasers for MIUI 13, saying that the soon-to-release software skin upgrade will come with a “Privacy Security Goalkeeper” paired with a system-level anti-fraud feature.

While further elaboration is needed to know what that exactly means, part of the new feature’s scope extends to protection against telecom fraud. Telecom fraud is the abuse of telecommunications products and services with the intention of stealing money from customers and/or their communications providers. It’s usually done through unrestricted access to outbound calls or by sending links to web pages designed to steal your data through SMS. Privacy Goalkeeper will supposedly be screening against these.

Additionally, the post highlights the December 28th launch date for the Android skin version again, which is the same day the Xiaomi 12 series will be going live as well.

MIUI appears to have ‘matured’ lately and isn’t going big on features and UI changes like it did with some earlier releases. Instead, the focus this year is once again on improving performance, stability, and security. Judging from some leaked screenshots and videos, the update doesn’t seem to be bringing much to the table in terms of changes to the UI. The main highlight appears to be enhanced widget support, with multiple system apps getting new iOS-style widgets, complete with cool opening/closing animations.

Just take a look at the latest leaked screenshots and see for yourself:

Apart from this, the latest teasers once again promise nothing but improved fluency – something that we have already seen with MIUI 12.5 and MIUI 12.5 Enhanced. MIUI 13 has been claimed to boost system fluency by 15% to 52%, and there is also a mention of Focus Computing 2.0, liquid storage, and atomic memory that should result in faster read and write times.

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