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Xiaomi is quietly making it easier for people who use both its phones and Apple gear to live with the mix. At its Autumn New Product Launch Conference, the company showed off better cross-platform connectivity on its latest flagships, aiming to reduce the friction for anyone who owns a Xiaomi phone and still keeps some Apple hardware around.
During the event, Lu Weibing (Partner and President of Xiaomi Group, head of the Mobile Phone Division, and General Manager of the Xiaomi Brand) announced that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series now supports connecting to an Apple Watch. You can take calls and get notifications on the watch, and fitness and health data can sync between the two devices.
This isn’t starting from zero. The series already lets you quickly share photos, videos, and files with an iPhone just by tapping, plus cross-device unlocking, message sharing, and cloud photo album sync. All of that sits under Xiaomi’s HyperConnect framework for working with Apple devices.
The groundwork was laid earlier. Back at the 2024 Xiaomi 15 series and HyperOS 2 launch, Xiaomi confirmed that HyperConnect fully supports the Apple ecosystem. You could already transfer files and images by installing the Xiaomi Connect Service app. Things kept expanding after that. With HyperOS 3 and version 2.1.0 of Xiaomi Connect Service, you got iPhone notification syncing on Xiaomi phones and a windowed app mode for iPad on the Mi Desktop.
Mac and iPad integration also improved under HyperOS 3. Xiaomi phones can open multiple resizable windows on a Mac, with one-click full-screen support. You can unlock a mirrored phone session using the Mac’s Touch ID without picking up the handset, thanks to Magic Launcher. An iPad version of Magic Launcher showed up too, supporting Face ID unlocking and fitting into the iPad’s multitasking system.
Adding Apple Watch support on the Xiaomi 18 Pro series is a meaningful expansion of all this, especially for people who want to keep their existing Apple Watch while switching to (or adding) a Xiaomi flagship. It means you can still get calls, alerts, and health data without having to abandon Apple’s wearable side of the ecosystem. As Xiaomi keeps refining HyperConnect and HyperOS, the cross-device experience between the two platforms should only get smoother.
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