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Forces you to sign up and give personal data away to Xiaomi, for things as simple as connecting to devices that are just Bluetooth. Then it makes you accept new term and conditions every couple of months and, of course, all your devices are gone after that. The Xiaomi products themselves are usually great (and great value) but being forced to go through the app detracts a lot from the experience.

Got the app to sync with the scale. It's laughably bad and inaccurate. For example, it estimates BMI and fat percentage, then uses *different values* to determine if I'm over it under weight. The scale itself is not particularly accurate, but it's the app that misinterprets the result. If this is the data Xiaomi is collecting, I feel pity for the data analysts who must sift through it.

This is incredibly frustrating. No matter what I type in, I cannot change the Wi-Fi name. The system keeps rejecting every attempt with the same error: “Network name contains unsupported characters.” I tried multiple variations—simple letters, numbers, even basic names with no symbols—yet nothing works. For such a basic function, it shouldn’t be this complicated!