On June 8, 2022, TECNO HiOS 8.6 was officially released worldwide, with inclusive and customizable design, rich features and strong performance.

HiOS 8.6 is the perfect continuation of TECNO's ethereal, fluid and smart brand aesthetic. Every aspect embodies “Be Great with HiOS”.

What you get is a fully upgraded experience together with a refreshing UI and a great set of new features. Based on the Android 12, HiOS 8.6 brings a more well-rounded experience that fuels your creativity and lets you challenge the conventions of greatness whether in work or life. Come with me, let's meet the new HiOS 8.6.

HiOS 8.6 is designed to provide you with a visual aesthetic that brings harmony to your screen. The innovative interface redesign brings the awe and grandeur of nature to life. Flow from one screen to the next with heightened enjoyment with enriching icons, graceful contours, and immersive themes.

These finely tuned gradients creates a perfect sense of depth in the display, while the integrated Blue engulfs the user in a panoramic view much like an idyllic lake.

Alongside a more minimal approach with rounded icons and better fonts, HiOS 8.6 comes with refreshed animation effects that reflect a life-like response to touch with gravity and superb animation effects.

The latest animations added to the UI mimics the ripples of water and makes the overall touch interaction smoother and more interactive. You will experience bounce effects across the UI while opening apps. Each tap like touching a rain drop. HiOS 8.6 users will be even more comfortable and effortless for all the things that our users love to do on their TECNO devices.

From everyday uses like messaging and browsing the web, to playing immersive high-quality games, all distractions are stripped away, and it is much easier for you to focus on what really matters.

Next, let's continue to see what powerful technological functions in TECNO HiOS8.6.

1. Photo Video
Photo Video makes it easy for you to seamlessly combine your favorite photos into carefully curated videos to remind you of the good times in just a click. Just select from your gallery, pick a template and you can easily make mini blockbusters by turning your images into short videos as many times as you want. So, next time you are unsure what you want to post on social media, simply use Photo Video to create videos from your App Gallery.

2. Video to mp3
While watching a very interesting movie, the soundtrack or the music is something to fall in love with. With this feature, you can turn that interesting part of the video to mp3 and use as ringtone in just a second. Very fast and easy to use.

3. Video Editor
Contents, contents and contents is what the world is currently consuming on daily basis- most especially, video contents. On HiOS 8.6 of CAMON 19, an inexperience user can be a pro with the video editor. The upgraded feature gives users the ability to fine tune, trim, merge, add soundtrack, export in high quality while creating more and more contents on the go. The interesting part, you can choose a template and have the magic work for you. Apply different filters and it saves to draft automatically incase of any sudden interruption. This video editor has made production easy, fast and professional.

4. Camera Pro Mode
Emphasis around a creators' journey on the new CAMON 19 cannot be expantiated enough without a one on one experience.
HiOS has taken the further step by introducing the professional mode to the camera features.
This gives the user a very wide control over the camera settings from ISO, White Balance, Exposure and many more.
Enjoy seemless and precise settings according to your need, a professional experience brought by a professional camera, and maximize your talents.

5. RAM Extension
Just wow! Imagine a room where instead of taking things out to have space, you're adding more to create space.
Say no more lagging in gaming experiences, app processing and faster smart phone experience.
This feature enable users to extend the RAM size on their device and maximize the full use of what a smartphone is all about.
You can extend to a 8gig RAM, an extra 3gig to make the experience even better.

6. Smart 5G
What is technology without speed and intelligence?
On CAMON 19 comes the all powerful 5G experience. There is a significant reduction in power consumption - Intelligently select 4G/5G network based on traffic bandwidth while reducing power consumpition in the following scenarios:

-Standby mode
- Video playback
- Instant messaging
- Mailing
- Audio playback
- Web browsing

7. optmization experience in weak network
HiOS optmization experience in weak network boosts your Download speed with wifi by 300% and your internet speeds by 45%. So you can keep your momentum going and your mental reserves fresh for the task at hand. And with a 40% video playback refresh rate, you don't have to worry about video buffering or slow downloads.

8.Master of Language
HiOS 8.6 brings you the ability to read and speak any foreign language in one touch. Master of Language is your personal interpreter. A language expert you can take on your business or pleasure trips. So, whether you need help reading Asian characters on your business trip to Japan, or getting your wine refilled during your tourist vist to France, Master of Language will have you covered.

9.App Twin
App Twin is the best assistant of your social circle. With it, you can run two social accounts simultaneously and switch between different social accounts fast and smoothly. This simply means you can have both your work social media account and your private account logged in on your phone. Keeping a balance between your work and life.


10.Smart Scenes
Smart Scenes will give you updates and reminders so you can keep up with what matters to you. So while you are enjoying mum's birthday cake, you can just take a glance at your screen and Smart Scenes will give you all the match updates and statistics.Whether it is important dates, Business trips or meetings, Flight information, Birthday dates, you won’t have to manually set reminders to be reminded of what’s important. If you are traveling, Smart Scenes will be with you from the point of buying your air ticket to point of taking your flight. Reminding you of flight times, the weather, traffic situation and so on. What’s more, Smart Scenes will intelligently learn your habits and will randomly push operation skills to help you get a more efficient user experience. Welcome to the smart life!


We hope you join us to be great together and enjoy a more seamless mobile life. Let's look forward together to even more greatness from HiOS in the future. There is a lot of fun to explore in the new HiOS 8.6 and we invite you to experience it for yourself.

All you need to know about the new HiOS8.6 can be found in the link below
https://www.tecno-mobile.com/hios/

On June 8, 2022, TECNO held the global launch for its all-new HiOS 8.6 via an online pres conference, bringing exclusive and customizable design, rich features, strong performance and the latest Android 12 update to global users. With its "Be Great with HiOS" concept, HiOS 8.6 builds upon TECNO's ethereal, fluid and smart brand aesthetic "Stop at Nothing", reinforcing TECNO’s commitment to exploring more possibilities in the fusion of technology, innovation, and design. Every aspect of the new software update strives to inspire users to push the limits to achieve greatness, while also providing the rich UI customization sought by TECNO global users.

Aesthetically smart design to challenge the conventions of greatness
HiOS 8.6 offers a fully upgraded experience together with a refreshing UI and a great set of new features. Based on the Android 12, HiOS 8.6 brings a more well-rounded experience that fuels users' creativity and lets them challenge the conventions of greatness whether in work or life. Users are provided witha visual aesthetic that brings harmony to their screen. The innovative interface redesign brings the awe and grandeur of nature to lie. Users can essentioally flow from one screen to the next with heightened enjoyment with enriching icons, graceful contours, and immersive themes.The finely tuned gradients creates a perfect sense of depth in the display, while the integrated Blue engulfs the user in a panoramic view much like an idyllic lake.

HiOS 8.6's focus on UI customization is rooted in the customer's desire for a less distracting and unique phone experience," The HiOS team has heeded the user feedback for less distractions,offering a minimalistic design and refreshed animation effects that reflect a life-like response to touch with gravity and superb animation effects. From everyday uses like messaging and browsing the web,to playing immersive high-quality games, all distractions are stripped away, and it is much easier for users to focus on what really matters.HiOS 8.6 users will be even more comfortable and effortless for all the things that they love to do on their TECNO devices.

Tuned to catch the greatest moments of life

HiOS 8.6 delivers a sleuth of features that combines style and performance with an elevated photographic experience. Among them is the Camera Pro Mode that eases a creators' journey on the new CAMON 19. HiOS has taken the further step by introducing the professional mode to the camera features. This gives the user a very wide control over the camera settings from ISO, White Balance, Exposure and many more. Enjoy seemless and precise settings according to your need, a professional experience brought by a professional camera, and maximize your talents.
Video Editor is another great content creation tool that makes the life of a creator easier. On HiOS 8.6 of CAMON 19, an inexperience user can be a pro with the video editor. The upgraded feature gives users the ability to fine tune, trim, merge, add soundtrack, export in high quality while creating more and more contents on the go. The interesting part, you can choose a template and have the magic work for you. Apply different filters and it saves to draft automatically incase of any sudden interruption. This video editor has made production easy, fast and professional.

Photo Video makes it easy for you to seamlessly combine your favorite photos into carefully curated videos to remind you of the good times in just a click. Just select from your gallery, pick a template and you can easily make mini blockbusters by turning your images into short videos as many times as you want. So, next time you are unsure what you want to post on social media, simply use Photo Video to create videos from your App Gallery.

While watching a very interesting movie, the soundtrack or the music is something to fall in love with. With the Video to MP3 feature, you can turn that interesting part of the video to mp3 and use as ringtone in just a second. Very fast and easy to use.

Powerful technological functions for greater efficiency

HiOS 8.6 is equipped with robust features that improve work and life efficiency and makes users achieve greatness in a seamless way when dealing with different tasks. Lightning Multi-Windo is a feature that allows you to switch seamlessly between two Apps. This feature creates a floating window of your main screen app giving you an opportunity to juggle between multiple Apps at the same time.
Imagine a room where instead of taking things out to have space, you're adding more to create space. Thanks to the new Ram Extension feature on HiOS 8.6, say no more to lagging in gaming experiences, app processing and welcome to faster smart phone experience. This feature enable users to extend the RAM size on their device and maximize the full use of what a smartphone is all about. You can extend to a 8gig RAM, an extra 3gig to make the experience even better.

What is technology without speed and intelligence? TECNO CAMON 19 comes with the all powerful Smart 5G. There is a significant reduction in power consumption. Intelligently select 4G/5G network based on traffic bandwidth while reducing power consumpition in the following scenarios:
-Standby mode
- Video playback
- Instant messaging
- Mailing
- Audio playback
- Web browsing

We hope you join us to be great together and enjoy a more seamless mobile life. Let's look forward together to even more greatness from HiOS in the future. There is a lot of fun to explore in the new HiOS 8.6 and we invite you to experience it for yourself.

Today, TECNO is known as one of the most recognized smartphone manufacturers and its value-for-money offerings have made huge inroads in the global emerging markets. Another incontestable fact is that HiOS, the software that runs on TECNO phones, constantly upgrade its design and features, which is increasingly elegant, smart, intelligent, and constantly pioneering and touching the human spirit.



Between the first version of HiOS and now (the operating system is now in its 7th generation with the latest iteration being the HiOS 7.6), a lot has changed and HiOS is no longer just an android skin. It is a full-fledged operating system full of innovations that’s on millions of devices out there and it also happens to be amongst the most feature-rich. Aside from the fact that the latest HiOS update from TECNO is based on Android 11, the latest Android version, it also comes with a refreshed look and rich features that put you at the heart of the digital experience.

So, in case you have got a TECNO Camon 17 or are just curious about what HiOS 7.6 has to offer, here are 10 features that you should know about.

1. Refreshed UI

HiOS 7.6 comes with an all-new design using the new Cosmos Blue structured with ocean elements, recreating the feeling of the tender breeze of everything in the universe. The blue is comfortable and pure, reminding you of the sky and sea; It is also elegant and intriguing, for your peaceful pondering of nature. Cosmos blue is shown in graded saturation, manifesting strong vitality with dedicated color transitions. It’s so ethereal, dazzling, and mysterious.
The brand-new zero screen is now Imbued with smart squares, a modern and elegant layout that will largely contribute to your daily-life convenience and work efficiency.
With Minimalism immersed in every move, the new version is characterized by symmetry in golden ratio, plenty of blank space, unity of screen elements for a more balanced HiOS visual experience while making sure the key contents stand out.

2. Custom Timing Dark Theme
Dark Mode was first introduced with Android 10 and now it’s available on Android 11 too. If you’re a fan of dark themes, you’ll be glad to know the scheduling of this UI change has been improved with Android 11.

With HiOS 7.6, you get the option to schedule when your smartphone automatically switches between dark and light mode. According to your taste, your HiOS will automatically switch to the dark theme at sunset and return to the standard theme at sunrise. This is a solid solution, especially for those that wake up in the middle of the night to check their phone.
Insomniacs around the globe rejoice–no more unlocking your phone, only to be blinded by the glow of the light theme.

3. Peek Proof
With privacy being a top concern in tech circles, it is great to see an OS that actually works in users’ favor. HiOS 7.6 features one of the industry’s best solution for providing comprehensive security protection for users with its Za-Hooc security solution. Peek Proof protects your screen information from prying eyes when in a public place. It provides an adjustable darkened screen whereby only a highlighted portion of the screen is visible to those trying to peep into the screen. Neat indeed!

4. Vault 2.0
From Privacy Protection and Harassment to Fraud Prevention among others, the options to safeguard users’ privacy are a top feature of HiOS. HiOS 7.6 brings with it an improved Vault 2.0 as part of its Za-Hooc security solution.
This feature provides special security for apps and even your gallery for unauthorized access on your device. It just simply makes them vanish completely from your device without a trace. Of Course, only you can bring them back by filling in some security information. It is highly recommended to use this feature to secure banking and personal apps as well as your investment apps. This feature comes in handy in a lot of situations where someone you don’t trust has your phone, or even in a family with a communal phone, and where everyone maybe does their tasks on the same phone. Your privacy will be maintained with this feature, and your apps will stay locked, no matter what happens or whoever uses it.

5. Pic Film
Looking for an easy way to turn your photos into a captivating video? HiOS 7.6 provides an effortless way to turn photos and memories into a video with stylish transitions and music for any occasion.

With the Pic Film feature, you only have to select a few of your photos, and you have a blockbuster in your hands. Want to create special memory for your best friend or relative? Select photos where you are together, and you have a blockbuster of your time together. Creating an unforgettable gift for a special person in your life has never been so easy. No video editing experience necessary!

6. Chat Bubbles
Notifications in prior Android versions have been very good, but in Android 11, Chat Bubbles were introduced to keep important chat/messaging notifications on the forefront.
On HiOS 7.6, when you get a text, WhatsApp message, or anything else like that, you can now turn that regular notification into a chat bubble that floats on the top of your screen. No matter what you are doing on your phone, chat bubbles ensure you always have easy access to that conversation.
With Chat bubble, you can create a bubble-like effect of your open chats and conversation. That way, you do not need to ever leave your current app to respond to a message. You just tap on a bubble to continue your chat.

7. Voice Changer
It will not be a HiOS upgrade if Social Turbo, the WhatsApp Assistant Box with multiple features to help you enjoy chatting with your friends, does not get an innovative addition.
So, you want to switch things up with your friends and prank call them by disguising your voice, but you know no matter how naturally hard you try, they will easily catch on because your voice is a dead giveaway. So how do you go about it?
HiOS 7.6 Voice Changer feature is what you need. It supports many effects, including a woman, man, girl, boy, old woman or a baby, that allows you to change your voice. Now you can add effects to your voice in real-time during chat calls and sound like the real thing. This would make chat calls much more fun and interesting. Change your voice in real-time and have fun with friends. A perfect way to disguise your voice! Let the fun begin!

8. Video Assistant
Video Assistant is easily one of the most useful features introduced with HiOS 7.6. The Assistant is basically a side panel that provides easy access to many useful utilities such as WhatsApp, chrome and tools like screen recording, screenshot, message don’t disturb, etc.

But what makes this feature cool is the ‘Background Play’ option highlighted by an ear icon. This little utility does exactly as its name indicates. You can listen to video audio while the screen is locked or off.
You can turn on the feature in 1 second while watching a video. For example, you can quickly reply important messages or browse through plot of the video on your browser without having to leave your video screen.

9. Document Manager
With its built-in Document manager, TECNO has introduced Document auto-rotate manager with HiOS 7.6 to push the paperless revolution.
Document manager is an innovation that allows you to rotate bent or out of shape documents using advanced edge detection technology and helps you straighten them so it’s easier to read.
So next time you are in a hurry for a meeting, and you cannot wait to take a picture of the contract document properly to read inside the car, don’t worry, Document Manager makes sure everything is well straightened and legible for you to read at your convenience.

10. Phone Cloner
When it is time to switch from your older phone to a new one, you’ll want to make sure all of your data makes its way across safely. Thankfully, HiOS 7.6 makes it extremely convenient to migrate your contacts, photos, videos and more to your new phone seamlessly.
Phone Cloner is a convenient data migration feature provided by TECNO for users to easily transfer the contacts, SMS, call logs, notes, recordings, calendar, photos, music, videos, documents and applications of your old phones to new TECNO smartphone. No more rigorous exercise when moving files from your old phone to a new phone.

Mobile gaming is fast becoming a thing in the gaming world, thanks to better-improved gaming graphics over the years. Gaming has moved from 2D adventures like Mario and packman to 3D gaming like Need for speed, mortal combat, etc.

But gaming didn’t just stop there. There are now hyper-realistic games where users can interact with objects like entering a building, driving a car, or picking up an object making gaming much more immersive than it has ever been. These improvements have led to the springing up of more mobile gamers who spend as much time as PC gamers spend on their PC.



One thing gamers have in common is, they don’t like to be interrupted during intense gaming. When gaming on PC, this is quite easy and achievable. All you need to do as a gamer is to lock up yourself and put off your mobile device or silence them.

But when gaming on mobile, you still have other things running in the background. You have various notifications and phone functions running. This is one of the reasons Game mode was created on TECNO devices. It has so many features so users can experience gaming, uninterrupted.

One of such features is the floating window. The floating window is a feature on the Game Panel that allows you to have another window open in the game, without closing the game screen.

Take, for example, you are playing Call of duty and we know it’s a live game, no option to pause the action, then this very important WhatsApp message pops up, all you need to do is just open the Game panel and tap on the WhatsApp icon. A floating WhatsApp window opens on a part of the screen while your game is still running actively. You can respond to the message using the floating screen and close it when done without closing or minimizing your game.

Another example is, you probably got stuck on a level in The Wolf Among Us and you don’t know how to pass that stage. You have tried every skill and tricks you know, it’s still not working. All you need to do is open the Game panel and open the browser. This opens without closing your game. You can then google the solution while still active in the game.

Have you ever tried the game mode?

Are you tired of the boring home screen, or too used to the same design and Colour on your TECNO smartphone screen? Do you want something stylish and cool, worry no more for there is a special feature that will help you change the look of your phone which includes the theme, wallpaper, font, and even DIY?

Have you heard of Hi Theme, or have you used it before? below are info and tips on how to achieve the maximum aesthetics of your mobile phone through the use of Hi Theme.



What is Hi Theme?

This is a feature of the HIOS launcher which controls the look, feel and design of the apps, wallpaper, and fonts of a mobile phone. With its functions, users can get to change the theme, wallpaper, and fonts of their phones with ease. Hi Theme provides users with tons of Wallpaper, themes, and fonts to choose from.

When you open the Hi Theme app it has four Categories;

1) WEEKLY: under the weekly category is made up of themes, wallpaper, and DIY ready for different week, theme and wallpaper are been selected as best for each week and displayed in the weekly category to enable the user to see the best theme and wallpaper for the week and also download it to use for the Particular week, they are in.

2)WALLPAPER: The wallpaper categories are made up of series and different types of Wallpaper ranging from nature to technology, business, fashion, sports, etc. The Wallpaper section has other sub-features to enable users to choose the right and perfect wallpaper easily and fast.

They include;
• Ranking icon
• Category
• Local

~The Ranking feature: you get to see the wallpapers that are ranking highest either for the week or total.

~The Category feature: arranges wallpaper according to different genres and types, we have different categories like business, fashion, technology, animal, car, photograph, etc. So you get to choose which category you like the most, for instance, you want to have wallpaper this is a photo of a grasshopper, the easiest way to get that Wallpaper is by going to the nature category and look for it there...very easy and fast.

~The third sub-feature which is the Local, helps you see your phone's internal wallpaper and also downloaded wallpaper and also live wallpaper if you have any.

To set any wallpaper of your choice, click the Particular image and download it, and after downloading you can now set it as your wallpaper, either as home screen wallpaper or lock screen wallpaper, or both.

Hi THEME wallpapers remain the best and have the most beautiful collections of wallpapers of various kinds and categories, so I recommend Hi Wallpaper for you.

3)THEME: Themes beautify the appearance of a phone screen, it makes a phone appealing to the eye, changing the designs of the application icons and even the wallpaper too. The difference between a wallpaper and a theme is, a wallpaper describes only the background say, of your phone screen while a theme is a broad color/style scheme that affects not only the wallpaper (background) but the color of app folders, the search engine, and your layout, overall fitting the whole aesthetic of your device into one style

There are hundreds of themes in the Hi theme store where you get to select the best theme appealing to you. The theme is grouped into the ranking and the category sections where you have, romance, technology, nature, etc., and they are ranked weekly and Total.

Still, under the Theme section we have the DIY button, (DIY meaning DO IT YOURSELF) is a special feature that allows you to create your own theme from your collection, you have the opportunity to choose the icon style and the wallpaper you want to enable you to create your own theme. The DIY feature has to do with Creativity where you are allowed to create any theme you want using your downloaded collections. You also have the opportunity to upload your DIY to the Hi theme store for other users to download.

You can also click on the Local Icon on the Theme section to access the themes you have downloaded and also the internal themes and from there you can apply them to beautify your phone.

4)FONTS: All most everyone is tired of their default font or system font, but you can make your phone look stylish with the Hi fonts from the Hi Theme App. Fonts styles also add to the aesthetics of a phone, it makes the phone look cool. So to change your font style open the Hi Theme and Click on the font icon and select the Font you want, download it, and apply it. Voila, your phone becomes classy.