realme launched the realme 3 Pro in the country back in April running ColorOS 6.0 based on Android 9.0 (Pie). The smartphone has already received Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 update. realme has already confirmed that realme 3 Pro will receive Android 11 based realme UI 2.0 update in Q2 2021.
realme doesn’t follow a fixed update frequency but the company rolls out updates frequently. This post will help our readers in keeping track of realme UI updates for realme 3 Pro.
Note that realme follows staged rollout and the updates are randomly pushed to a limited number of users and a broader rollout usually takes a few days after the company makes sure there are no critical bugs.
realme 3 Pro realme UI updates so far,
- [July 14, 2021]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851_11_F.03 realme UI 2.0 update based on Android 11 for those who have signed up for early acces The update weighs 3.17GB in size. We can expect the stable rollout soon.
[Personalizations] Personalize the user interface to make it your own • You can now create your own wallpaper by picking colors from your photos. • Third-party icons for apps on the home screen are now supported. • Three Dark mode styles are available: Enhanced, medium, and gentle; wallpapers and icons can be adjusted to Dark mode; and the display contrast can be adjusted automatically to ambient light. [High Efficiency] • You can now drag text, images, or files out of a floating window or from one app to another app in Split screen mode. • Optimized the editing page of Smart Sidebar: Two tabs are displayed and the order of items can be customized. [Improved Performance] • Added "Optimized night charging": An AI algorithm is used to control charging speed at night to extend battery life. [System] • Added "Tone tunes": Consecutive notification tones will be linked to form a single melody. • You can now determine a time period when Do Not Disturb is on. • Added weather animations to provide you with a more interesting experience. • Optimized vibration effects for text input and gameplay. • Optimized "Auto brightness". [Launcher] • You can now remove a folder or combine it with another one. • Added filters for "Drawer mode": You can now filter apps by letters, install time, or usage frequency to quickly find an app. [Security and Privacy] • Added "System cloner": You can create a system clone from your main system and use different fingerprints to enter different systems. • You can now turn "App lock" on or off in Quick Settings. • More powerful SOS functions Emergency info: You can quickly display your personal emergency info to first responders. The information can be shown even when your screen is locked. • Optimized "Permission manager": You can now choose "Allow only once" for sensitive permissions to better protect your privacy. [Games] • Added Immersive mode which reduces disturbances while gaming so you can stay focused. • You can change the way to summon Game Assistant. [Communications] • You can share your personal hotspot with others via a QR code. [Photos] • Added the Cloud Sync for Private Safe feature which allows you to sync the photos in your Private Safe to the cloud. • Optimized the photo editing feature with upgraded algorithms and more markup effects and filters. [HeyTap Cloud] • You can back up your photos, documents, system settings, WeChat data, and more, and easily migrate to a new phone. • You can select the types of data to be backed up or restored. [Camera] • Added shortcuts to instantly share and edit photos or videos you just took. • Added the inertial zoom feature which makes zooming smoother during video shooting. • Added the level and grid feature to help you compose videos. [realme Lab] • Added Sleep Capsule, help you schedule downtime and secure your sleep time [Accessibility] • Added "Sound amplifier": You can amplify faint sounds in the environment and soften loud sounds when wearing earphones.
- [May 28, 2021]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.17 with January Android security patch. The OTA update weighs just 235MB in size. [Download Link]
Security ● Updated Android security patch: May, 2021 System ● Optimized the system performance and improved the system stability
- [Mar 22, 2021]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.15 with March Android security patch. The OTA update weighs just 292MBs in size. [Download Link]
Security ● Updated Android security patch: March, 2021 Setting ● Optimized the switch logic of Control Center ● Fixed the probabilistic restoring to default ringtone issue in call ringtone ● Fixed the probabilistic voice failure issue in PUBG System ● Optimized system performance and improved system stability
- [Jan 26, 2021]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.14 with January Android security patch. The OTA update weighs just 405MBs in size, and adds a new feature that lets you turn off the flashlight simply with a short press of the power button while the screen is off. The update also brings several bug fixes and optimizations. [Download Link]
Security ● Updated Android security patch: January, 2021 Settings ● Added short-press the power button to turn off flashlight feature while screen-off Apps ● Fixed the issue that two cancel buttons appear when the input box is clicked multiple times in the weather ● Fixed the issue of abnormal system permission acquisition when the radio is turned on Bluetooth ● Fixed the probabilistic issue of failure to open Bluetooth scanning Photos ● Fixed the probabilistic issue that Photos cannot play HDR videos Alarm ● Fixed the probabilistic issue of crashing when entering the alarm details Networks ● Fixed the probabilistic issue that VOLTE be registered
- [Nov 21, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.10 with November Android security patch. The update weighs just 488MBs in size, and a new Bluetooth earphone icon in the in-call UI, and an all-new super power-saving mode. The update also brings the ability to take scrolling screenshots in horizontal mode, adds a toggle in the screenshot settings to turn on/off functionality for taking a screenshot via the power+volume down button. realme has also added a new toggle under the Eye Comfort display settings, which lets users schedule it between Sunset and Sunrise. A new icon pull-down gesture toggle is also added which lets a user pull down app icons by swiping upwards on the left/right side of the screen. A couple of new shortcuts are added at the bottom of the Battery and Security settings. Apart from it, the update also brings a fix for screen flicker when entering the album and the freezing issue of Clone Phone. [Download Link]
Security ● Android Security Patch: November, 2020 Bluetooth ● Added a new icon for phone calls with Bluetooth earphone Screenshot ● Added Scrolling screenshot feature in horizontal mode ● Added a toggle for physical button screenshot in screenshot settings Settings ● Added Super power saving mode ● Added a toggle for displaying keyboard when entering app drawer ● Added Icon pull-down gesture ● Added From Sunset to Sunrise option of eye comfort ● Added shortcuts at the bottom of Battery settings ● Added shortcuts at the bottom of Security settings ● Fixed the probabilistic issue of unable to adjust the color temperature after turning off eye comfort Album ● Added Create feature which enables video editing in Soloop ● Fixed the probabilistic screen flicker when entering the album ● Fixed the probabilistic crash issue when browsing in the album System ● Fixed the probabilistic freezing issue of Clone Phone
- [Sep 23, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.09 with September Android security patch. The update weighs 439MBs in size and brings an all-new Super nighttime standby feature, and improved standby performance, both of which can be found under realme lab section. The update adds a default audio recording device option, a new Deep Cleanup feature with improved background cleaning ability, a return button in screenshot preview, an automatic download option for app updates when connected to Wi-Fi, time display options for the status bar, shortcuts at the bottom of security settings, shortcuts at the bottom of other settings, OTG switch, auto-scrolling feature in scrolling screenshot and the feature of long-press the icon to uninstall the app in the drawer mode. The update also brings several optimizations such as optimized pop-up window for system updates notification, optimized “Mute-Bell-Vibrate” icon state along with bug fixes including issues with scrolling screenshot, the font size issue of charging animation, the issue that the fingerprint names are set to default when restarting the system in Multi-User mode and more. [Download Link]
Security ● Android Security Patch: September, 2020 realme Lab ● Added Super nighttime standby feature and improved standby performance Settings ● Added default audio recording device options ● Added Deep Cleanup feature and improved background cleaning ability ● Added a return button in screenshot preview ● Added long press to copy IMEI in the status information interface ● Added automatic download option for app updates when connected to Wi-Fi ● Added time display options for the status bar ● Added shortcuts at the bottom of security settings ● Added shortcuts at the bottom of other settings ● Optimized the experience in Wi-Fi settings Status bar ● Added the OTG switch ● Optimized the pop-up window for system updates notification ● Optimized "Mute-Bell-Vibrate" icon state Screenshot ● Added auto scrolling feature in scrolling screenshot ● Fixed the probabilistic issue in scrolling screenshot System ● Added the feature of long press the icon to uninstall the app in the drawer mode ● Fixed the font size issue of charging animation ● Fixed the issue that the fingerprint names are set to default when restarting the system in Multi-User mode ● Fixed the crashing issue of the search field in app list
- [Sep 21, 2020]: realme 3 Pro will be upgraded to Android 11 based realme UI 2.0 in Q2 2021, confirms realme.
- [Jul 30, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.07 with July Android security patch. The update weighs 494MBs in size, brings smooth scrolling (can be found under realme Lab section) and multi-user feature to the device along with optimized screen recording and other system optimizations. [Download Link]
Security ● Android security patch: July, 2020 realme Lab ● Added the smooth scrolling feature Settings ● Added multi-user feature Screen Recording ● Optimized screen recording feature System ● Optimized the transparency of swipe back gesture style ● Optimized Bluetooth being turned off when flight mode is turned on mechanisam ● Fixed some known issues and improved system stability
- [Jun 20, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.06 with June Android security patch. The update weighs 461 MBs in size, adds realme PaySa and realme Link apps as a system app. The update also brings new charging animation along with several other optimizations. [Download Link]
- [Apr 30, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.05 with April Android security patch. The update weighs 341 MBs in size and brings DocVault ID feature along with other optimizations and bug fixes [Download Link].
- [Mar 23, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.04 with March Android security patch. The update weighs 669 MBs in size and brings a bunch of bug fixes. [Download Link]
- [Mar 2, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_C.03 with February Android security patch. The update weighs 710 MBs in size and brings Airtel and Jio VoWiFi to the device along with a couple of bug fixes. [Download Link]
- [Jan 30, 2020]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11.C.02 with January Android security patch to realme 3 Pro widely. Check out this post to learn about new features that realme UI brings to realme 3 Pro. [Download Link]
- [Jan 29, 2020]: realme official Francis Wang has confirmed that realme Pro series devices will receive two major Android updates, so we can expect realme 3 Pro to receive Android 11 in the future.
- [Jan 20, 2020]: realme has started rolling out a new RMX1851EX_11.C.02 update. The update weighs 541 MBs in size and fixes camera crash issue along with other minor bug fixes to improve the system stability. [Download Link]
- [Jab 17, 2020]: realme has started rolling out Android 10 based realme UI 1.0 to realme 3 Pro. The update comes as RMX1851EX_11.C.01, weighs 3.52 GBs in size. realme UI brings new features such as dual earphone connection, animated wallpapers, screen-off display, customizable icon shape, new charging animation, realme Share (cross-brand file-sharing technology) and more. Check out this post to learn about new features that realme UI brings to realme 3 Pro.
- [Dec 13, 2019]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11.A.21 with December security patch. The update weighs about 270 MBs in size, adds a dark mode quick switch toggle in the notification panel and brings multiple bug fixes. [Download Link]
- [Nov 25, 2019]: realme 3 Pro will be upgraded to Android 10 based realme UI in January 2020, confirms realme.
- [Oct 31, 2019]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11.A.20 with October security patch. This update brings new charging animation, system-wide dark mode, realme laboratory and more. [Download Link]
- [Sep 30, 2019]: realme has started rolling out RMX1851EX_11_A.19 with September 2019 security patch. The update weighs about 276 MBs in size and brings digital wellbeing, redesigned notification center interface, clone app support for more third-party apps including PayTM, Google Pay, PhonePe, Amazon, Flipkart and ability to display screen on time. [Download Link]
- [Sep 13, 2019]: realme 3 Pro will be upgraded to Android 10 in Q1 2020, confirms realme.
- [June 5, 2019]: realme releases Android Pie based kernel source codes for realme 3 Pro.