Xiaomi has added ten more entries to its end-of-software-support list, and the Xiaomi 12S Pro is the headline casualty. The Xiaomi Security Center list was updated on 17 August 2026, IT之家 reports, with users spotting the change the following day. Devices on that list stop receiving software and firmware updates, including monthly security patches.
Read the region tags before you panic
The single most useful detail here is one that most English-language summaries drop. Xiaomi’s list does not name bare model names — it names specific regional firmware variants, and the entry for your phone may not be the entry for the same phone sold somewhere else. The Redmi Note 12R on this list is tagged (cn). So is the Redmi Pad SE, the Redmi 12R and the Redmi 12 5G. The Xiaomi 12 Lite, by contrast, is listed across five regions at once.
Practically: if you bought a Redmi Pad SE in India, the entry that just went end-of-life is the Chinese firmware build, not necessarily yours — though it is worth checking whether your variant was named in one of Xiaomi’s earlier batches, which have already covered the Redmi K60 series and the Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro. If you own a Xiaomi 12 Lite almost anywhere, you are covered by the list regardless.
The full list of newly added devices
- Xiaomi 12S Pro — (cn)
- Xiaomi 12 Lite — (ru), (global), (eea), (tw), (id)
- Redmi Pad SE — (cn)
- Redmi Note 12R — (cn)
- Redmi 12R — (cn)
- Redmi 12 5G — (cn)
That is six model names across ten firmware entries. The 12S Pro, a 2022 China-market flagship, is the most notable of them; the Xiaomi 12 Lite is the one with the widest international footprint.
What end-of-life actually means for your phone
Per IT之家’s summary of Xiaomi’s own policy, once a product lands on this list Xiaomi no longer provides software or firmware updates — security updates included — and may stop responding to security-vulnerability reports filed against those products. There is one narrow carve-out: if a very serious vulnerability turns up, Xiaomi may still ship a necessary security fix even for a device that has already stopped software support. That is a “may,” not a commitment.
Your phone will keep working. What it stops getting is the monthly patch that closes the flaws attackers actually use, and it will not see HyperOS 4 (Android 17) or anything after it. For a device you use for banking, UPI or work email, that is the part that matters, and it does not announce itself — nothing on the phone will tell you the patches have stopped arriving.
What to do if your device is on the list
Check Settings > About phone for your exact model and the Android security patch level. If the patch date stops advancing over the next couple of months, that is your confirmation. From there the honest options are a replacement handset, or an actively maintained custom ROM if you are comfortable unlocking the bootloader — LineageOS still ships builds for several devices Xiaomi has abandoned. What you should not do is keep the phone as your primary banking device on the assumption that “it still gets updates.”
Xiaomi has not published a separate statement about this batch; the change was made quietly to the Security Center list itself.
Source: IT之家’s report on the updated Xiaomi Security Center list, via Gizmochina — original: IT之家
