You said "it just closes that settings app without commiting the change", that sounds like a crash.
You did not attach any log or crash summary.
You can always try setting with ADB.
adb shell cmd package set-home-activity <package-name>/<activity-name>
Normally system apps load native libs directly from the APK, but they implemented it poorly so it's looking for it in nativeLibraryDir (/product/app/MiMediaEditor/lib/arm64/libFaceBeautyWrapper.so) instead of letting Android resolve the correct path automatically (which then would be...
Like I said, it's not our problem.
Beautify in video editor is crashing on some devices, but not on others.
Example: on Xiaomi 14 it works fine, on POCO X7 Pro it crashes.
It's a native library crash, not something we can change.
Because Google services have nothing to do with this thread, nor is it our responsibility to hack around it.
There are plenty of discussion threads in Mi General and Q&A subforums, don't pollute this thread.