IIRC this used to be a thing on older versions of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich, etc.) but they restricted it to media only in later versions for security reasons.
Someone please correct me if I'm misremembering!
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for security reasons.
AKA to boost sales of new devices by making old devices unusable faster by preventing the user from upgrading storage.
Yeah in hindsight I should've put 'security reasons' in inverted commas
it worked on Lollipop but not later versions of android like marshmallow etc. Mind you I ran marshmallow and later as a custom ROM
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Yes. It seems that MIUI has this feature disabled (at least, I can't find it), though I think there's a developer option about that. Anyways, I'm thinking of installing a custom rom because MIUI is cool but has a lot of problems. I'll update if I find the developer option I was talking about.
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So they did bring it back, I guess Android 6-8 didn't really get it working properly