The Washing Machine That Texts You When Your Laundry’s Done
Xiaomi’s new Mijia washers let you start a load from your phone and finish it just as you walk in the door.
As the rains ease into the ber months, many homes are catching up on a monsoon’s worth of laundry, with the sun finally back to help things dry.
Perfect timing to meet two machines built to clear that pile for you. The Mijia Front Load Washer 9kg and Mijia Top Load Washer 13kg come from Mijia, Xiaomi’s home-appliance line, carrying the same smarts as the brand’s smartphones, wearables, and Smart TVs. Each tackles a different laundry headache, and each is made to take the chore off your hands, not just get it done. Which one is yours? That depends less on your budget than on your home and the life inside it.
For the full house: Mijia Top Load Washer 13kg
This one is for the busy, full households: growing families, multigenerational homes. Also ideal for anyone whose weekend hamper overflows and who wants laundry day done in as few rounds as possible.
The Mijia Top Load Washer 13kg (with 80-liter drum) swallows a pile most machines would need two or three rounds to finish. It fits six sets of floor-length curtains, five bedding sets, or 56 T-shirts in one go. A 4-stage 3D water flow system ensures a load that big washes properly. With this machine, fewer rounds also mean less electricity used over the week.
The Top Load targets dust mites, which love the warm, humid air of a tropical home and settle happily into bedding. Its Tide Mite-Removal Wash uses triple water flow to clear them, with Xiaomi reporting a removal rate of up to 100% in lab conditions, and gentle enough, the company says, for sensitive skin and baby clothes. A tub cleaning mode keeps the machine itself fresh, so the machine washing your clothes stays clean too.
Part of Xiaomi’s HyperOS ecosystem, it works through the Xiaomi Home app, so picture this: before the morning rush, you load the clothes and set the wash from your phone, or with a quick “start the laundry” to Google Assistant. All day, you can check or reschedule it from anywhere. By the time you’re home at nine, it’s done, spun so well it’s practically ready for the line, and with today’s sun, it’ll dry in no time.
Designed to sit out in the open, it features a rounded, all-white minimalist body suited for modern spaces. It also caters to Filipino preferences for fresh laundry with fabric softener support and long-lasting fragrance care.
The quiet, hygienic upgrade: Mijia Front Load Washer 9kg
This one is built for a different kind of home: couples and DINKs, young families with one or two kids, and condo dwellers.
The Mijia Front Load Washer 9kg brings in steam, which Xiaomi says clears up to 99.99% of bacteria, exactly what you want for the towels, sheets, and baby clothes that take the hardest daily use.
The washer’s inverter BLDC motor keeps things quiet and power-efficient. That means a cycle won’t wake the house even when the machine sits just outside the bedroom, and it won’t shock you on the next bill. The 9kg drum swallows family-sized loads, and a brisk 1,200 rpm spin leaves clothes only lightly damp, so they dry quickly – a godsend in a condo with no sampayan, where the drying rack by the window does all the work.
Because it belongs to the same Xiaomi ecosystem, it also connects to the Xiaomi Home app: set a load going from your phone as you head out, timed to finish the moment you’re back, so nothing sits wet for hours. Not keen on apps? Everything you need is spelled out on the machine’s bright touch panel. Just tap and go.
Price and availability
Both washers offer Xiaomi-backed smart technology to streamline laundry, save you time, and stop eating up your whole weekend, so the choice comes down to your home and preferred lifestyle.
The Mijia Front Load Washer 9kg retails for PHP 20,999, while the Mijia Top Load Washer 13kg is priced at PHP 16,999. Both are available through the Official Xiaomi Store (mi.com/ph/store) online, the availability is only at Xiaomi’s official stores on Shopee (shopee.ph/xiaomiofficialstore.ph) and selected Xiaomi’s physical stores nationwide.
