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Xiaomi: Set a Default Home Screen Page

Tapping the home button always drops you on the wrong panel, especially if you keep several home screens or widget pages active on your Xiaomi phone. MIUI lets you pin one specific screen as the default target, but this setting is easy to miss and gets reset after a launcher change or update. Without it, the home button just returns to whichever screen you last viewed.

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Set a Default Home Screen auf Xiaomi

On Xiaomi phones running MIUI, the home button in the navigation bar does not always jump to a fixed screen. Instead, it can return to the last panel you scrolled to, which is confusing if you use several home screens for different app groups.

Setting a default home screen fixes this behavior. Once configured, every tap on the home button takes you straight to that chosen page, no matter where you were browsing before.

This setting lives inside the home screen layout options, not in the general system settings. To change it, use the following path:

Tap and hold a free area on home screenTap on SettingsTap on Set default screenSet the default home screen

Pick the panel you want as your anchor point, then confirm. The change applies immediately and does not require a restart.

If you use a third-party launcher instead of the built-in MIUI home screen, this option will not appear, since the setting only controls the native launcher. In that case, check the launcher's own settings for a similar default screen or home page option.

Adding or removing home screen panels later can shift which page holds the default flag, so it is worth checking this setting again after any bigger home screen reorganization.

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Without a default screen set, the home button on Xiaomi phones can return to the last panel you viewed instead of a fixed page. Setting one through Tap and hold a free area on home screenTap on SettingsTap on Set default screen stops this behavior.