HyperOS 2 Gets Its Final Feature Update as Xiaomi Shifts Focus to HyperOS 3

Xiaomi just pushed out the final feature update for HyperOS 2, and in many ways it feels like the end of a chapter. Not in a dramatic sense—phones won’t suddenly stop working—but this is the last time HyperOS 2 gets meaningful new tricks. After this, all eyes turn to HyperOS 3.

It’s an odd moment. Users get a handful of genuinely useful upgrades, yet at the same time the message is clear: enjoy them while they last, because the focus is already elsewhere.

The headline feature here is tighter cross-device camera integration. If you’ve been juggling a Xiaomi phone, tablet, and maybe even a smart TV, the update smooths out some of the friction.

Video calls, for example, can now hop across devices. Start on your phone, finish on the TV—it works without the clunky sign-ins and menu diving that used to slow things down. Photos sync faster too, so the days of fumbling with transfer apps are mostly gone.

Drag-and-drop projection is another nice touch. It sounds minor, but being able to fling a window from a small screen to a large one makes the whole ecosystem feel less segmented. Is it perfect? Not yet. But it’s the closest Xiaomi has come to delivering the “one screen everywhere” idea.

AI assistants can be hit or miss, and Xiaomi’s Super Xiaoai hasn’t exactly had global reach. Still, this update beefs it up. It now remembers things you tell it—card numbers, quick notes—and can retrieve them with a voice prompt.

I tried the message search, and while it’s quick, it still feels rough around the edges. Sometimes it pulls exactly what you need; sometimes it doesn’t. That said, one-click copy-paste across devices is clever. It’s the kind of small convenience you don’t notice until you don’t have it.

The Photos app gets a usability upgrade. Switching between text and image editing is faster, less buried in menus. For people who do light edits—adding captions, adjusting brightness—this is a win. Professional editors probably won’t ditch their third-party tools, but then again, they never do.

So why bother with this update at all, if HyperOS 3 is already in the pipeline? That’s the question. Part of me thinks Xiaomi wanted to send HyperOS 2 off properly, leaving it stable and capable. Another part suspects it’s about keeping users engaged just long enough to make the transition feel smooth.

Whatever the reasoning, this is it—the last flourish before the big leap. HyperOS 3 is expected to push further into AI and device intelligence, and frankly, it will need to. The bar is higher now.