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Xiaomi: Turn Off Suggestions in Recent Apps Menu

If your recent apps screen on a Xiaomi phone keeps showing extra tiles for Cleaner, Security scan, Deep cleaning or Manage Apps, a system suggestion feature is adding them automatically. This can make the app switcher feel cluttered and slower to scan through, especially if you only want to see your open apps.

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Turn Off Suggestions in Recent Apps Menu auf Xiaomi

On Xiaomi phones running MIUI, the recent apps menu can show more than just your open apps. A built-in suggestion feature adds shortcut tiles for things like Cleaner, Security scan, Deep cleaning or Manage Apps directly into the app switcher.

This behavior is controlled by a single home screen setting, not by the individual apps themselves. Once you know where to look, switching it off only takes a few taps.

Where the setting lives

Go to Tap on SettingsTap on Home screenEnable or disable Show suggestions. Turning this toggle off removes the extra tiles from the recent apps screen, leaving only your actively running apps.

Turning it back on brings the suggestion tiles back immediately, so you can test both states without any risk.

When this is not the right fix

If your recent apps screen looks normal but individual apps close themselves in the background, that is a separate battery or memory management issue, not related to this suggestion toggle. Disabling suggestions only changes what appears in the app switcher, it does not affect how long apps stay open in memory.

Frequently asked questions

No. The Show suggestions toggle only controls whether extra tiles like Cleaner or Security scan appear in the app switcher. Your actual open apps are not affected and keep running as before.