In less than six months, Xiaomi will officially unveil its new HyperOS 3 software platform, the firmware of which will mainly be built on Android 16, and Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco owners have traditionally begun to worry whether their smartphone will receive the new HyperOS 3.
Chinese sources have been publishing their lists of Xiaomi, Redmi and Poco devices that will be updated to HyperOS 2 for several months now. For example, you can find them here and here, but most of these questions, for some reason, come from users of smartphones of the Redmi Note 12 series.
It is worth noting right away that the Redmi Note 12 5G, Redmi Note 12 Pro 5G and Redmi Note 12 Pro+ 5G models will definitely not receive HyperOS 3 updates. These devices were originally released on Android 12 and have already received HyperOS builds on Android 13 and Android 14, and the release of firmware on Android 15 was not planned for them..
The situation is slightly better for the Redmi Note 12 4G, Redmi Note 12 4G NFC and Redmi Note 12S smartphones, for which Android 15 was planned to be released and they have already received the corresponding HyperOS 2 updates. That is, if HyperOS 3 is released for these models, then it will be built on Android 15 and users will not receive something radically new.
When will HyperOS 3 updates be released?
Xiaomi developers will start releasing Chinese HyperOS 3 updates in September or October, immediately after the official announcement of the Xiaomi 16 and Xiaomi 16 Pro flagships, which will initially receive the new HyperOS 3 system.
As for the global HyperOS 3 firmware, the first of them will be released towards the end of this year, and the large-scale deployment of HyperOS 3 outside China will begin in early 2026.
P.S. We collect all the most interesting information about the new version of the HyperOS 3 software platform here, and all the most interesting news about HyperOS can be found in this section.
