Anti-theft app for Xiaomi / Redmi phones in Kenya
If your Xiaomi / Redmi is taken, two things decide whether you get anything useful: what the phone captured at the moment it happened, and whether the app was still running. This page covers both.
What Xiaomi / Redmi already gives you
Xiaomi / Redmi ships with Mi Cloud Find device, plus Google Find Hub. Mi Cloud can ring, lock and wipe, but it will not show you who is holding the phone, and it needs the device online.
Switch it on regardless — it is free, and it handles a phone genuinely left behind better than anything else. The gap it leaves is theft, where the handset goes offline within minutes and a location from an hour ago tells the police very little.
The setting that decides whether any of this works
MIUI and HyperOS kill background apps harder than almost any other Android skin. Autostart is not optional on these phones — without it the app simply will not start after a reboot.
| Phone | Xiaomi / Redmi |
|---|---|
| Built-in recovery | Mi Cloud Find device, plus Google Find Hub |
| Setting to change | Security → Permissions → Autostart: turn Guard Eye on, then set Battery saver to "No restrictions". |
| Also allow | Camera, Location, and “Display over other apps” |
This is the single most common reason an anti-theft app is silent at the moment it was bought for. Change it the day you install, not the day you need it.
What Guard Eye adds on a Xiaomi / Redmi
- A wrong unlock attempt silently photographs the person from both cameras.
- Video with audio and the GPS location go to your email while the phone is still in their hand.
- Commuter shield watches for the motion of a phone being pulled away.
- Nothing shows on screen — no shutter sound, no flash, no notification.
Your Xiaomi / Redmi already knows when someone gets the pattern wrong. It just does not tell you.
Guard Eye captures a photo from both cameras, video with audio and the GPS location the moment someone fails to unlock your phone, and emails it to you. One payment of KES 999, Android only, no subscription.
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Common questions
Does Xiaomi / Redmi have a built-in anti-theft feature?
Xiaomi / Redmi offers Mi Cloud Find device, plus Google Find Hub. Mi Cloud can ring, lock and wipe, but it will not show you who is holding the phone, and it needs the device online.
Why do anti-theft apps stop working on Xiaomi / Redmi phones?
MIUI and HyperOS kill background apps harder than almost any other Android skin. Autostart is not optional on these phones — without it the app simply will not start after a reboot. The fix is: Security → Permissions → Autostart: turn Guard Eye on, then set Battery saver to "No restrictions".
Does Guard Eye work without internet?
Evidence is captured offline and sent the moment the phone has a connection again. If the handset never reconnects, nothing can be sent — that is true of every app.
Guard Eye is an Android app made in Kenya. Procedures on this page follow the national process — police OB number, IMEI, operator SIM block — and the details operators ask for do change, so confirm with yours. Back to Guard Eye