Enable or Disable Auto-align
On Huawei phones, deleting an app can trigger auto-align, which shifts every remaining icon to close the empty spot it left behind. If you have arranged apps in a specific order or grouped them by page, this automatic re-sorting can undo that layout without any extra confirmation.
Allow Calls and SMS for a Secondary User
When you add a second user profile on a Huawei phone, that account can be blocked from making calls, sending texts, or seeing the shared call and message history by default. This gets confusing fast if a family member or coworker expects to use the phone normally but calls fail silently or messages never arrive under their profile.
Set Up Captions
If subtitles do not appear automatically when you play a video, or the caption text disappears against a light background, the caption function on your Huawei phone still needs a manual setup. EMUI keeps this feature off by default, so you have to activate it, pick a language, and adjust the text style yourself. Once configured correctly, captions stay readable regardless of the video background.
Enable or Disable Dual 4G
If one SIM card on your Huawei dual-SIM phone keeps dropping to 3G while the other stays on 4G, the Dual SIM 4G option is likely switched off. This setting decides whether both cards can use high-speed data at the same time or only one of them. It matters if you split calls and data across two numbers and expect both to run at full speed.
Add Contact Shortcut to Home Screen
Every time you need to call your parents or message a close friend, digging through the Contacts app costs time. Huawei lets you pin a contact straight to the home screen as a shortcut, so a single tap opens the contact, starts a call, or opens a message thread. This works for one contact at a time, and you can repeat it for as many people as you need.
Set Video Resolution
If your recordings look blurry or take up too much storage, the camera might be locked to a resolution that doesn't match your needs. On Huawei phones, the available video resolution options depend on the exact hardware, so not every model offers the same choices.
Enable or Disable HDR
If photos taken with your Huawei phone look washed out in bright light or too dark in shadows, HDR might be switched off. When it is active, the camera shoots several frames at different exposures and merges them, which can also cause ghosting on moving subjects. Knowing when to toggle this option makes a real difference in tricky lighting.
Schedule Do Not Disturb Automatically
Manually toggling Do Not Disturb every night or before a meeting gets old fast, and forgetting to switch it back off lets notifications pile up at the wrong moment. Huawei phones let you set a recurring start and end time so Do Not Disturb switches on and off by itself on the days you pick.
Enable or Disable Banner Notifications
When banner notifications from WhatsApp or Telegram keep popping up over the status bar while you are watching a video or playing a game, they can get in the way fast. On the other hand, missing a banner because it disappeared in a couple of seconds is just as frustrating. Both issues come down to a single per-app notification setting that most people never touch.
Delete Guest Account
If a guest account is still set up on your Huawei phone, anyone using guest mode can open apps and change settings without your password. Deleting that profile wipes all its data, from downloaded apps to saved logins, and removes the option to switch back into it. This makes sense once you no longer share the phone or want to reset guest access from scratch.
Enable Developer Options
If USB debugging or other system tools stay grayed out on your Huawei phone, the hidden Developer options menu is probably still locked. This menu sits behind a hidden trigger on the About phone screen and only appears after a specific tap sequence. Without it unlocked, tasks like ADB access or app performance testing are not possible.
Enable or Disable Bluetooth Tethering
Need to share mobile data with a laptop but do not want to plug in a USB cable? On many Huawei phones, Bluetooth tethering sits hidden inside the mobile network settings instead of the usual hotspot menu, which makes it easy to overlook. Once the phone is paired with the target device, the connection works even a few meters apart, though at lower speed than a hotspot.
Volume Key Shortcut for Accessibility Features
If holding both volume buttons for three seconds does nothing on your Huawei phone, the accessibility shortcut is probably switched off or has no feature assigned to it. This shortcut is meant to give instant access to tools like TalkBack or colour correction without opening any menu. Whether it also fires on the lock screen depends on a separate switch that many users overlook.
Add Emergency Contacts
When Emergency SOS gets turned on for the first time on a Huawei phone, EMUI only sets up one emergency contact by default. If a fall or crash triggers an SOS alert later, that single contact might not be the person who can respond fastest. Many users never notice that up to three emergency contacts can actually be stored.
Colour Correction Setup
If reds and greens look almost identical on your Huawei phone, the standard display palette may not suit a colour vision deficiency. Icons, charts and notification badges that rely purely on colour can become hard to distinguish. EMUI offers several correction modes built for exactly this situation.
Restore a Deleted Photo from Gallery
A photo you deleted from your Huawei phone isn't gone right away. It sits in the Recently deleted trash bin for 30 days before EMUI removes it for good. After that window closes, the photo can no longer be recovered through the Gallery app.
Enable or Disable Auto-Sync Data
If contacts, calendar entries or app data on your Huawei phone stop updating across devices, or the phone keeps refreshing in the background and draining battery, the Auto-sync data setting for your accounts is usually the cause. This one switch controls whether every linked account pulls new data automatically or waits for a manual sync.
Raise to Wake and Mute Actions
If your Huawei phone keeps ringing at full volume after you pick it up, or the screen stays dark when you lift the device, the Raise motion settings probably do not match what you expect. This feature can lower the call, timer, or alarm volume and wake the device or display separately, but the toggles are easy to miss inside the Accessibility menu.
Remove a Member from a Contact Group
A contact group on your Huawei phone keeps growing until it includes people who no longer belong there. You don't need to delete the whole group just because one member has to go. EMUI lets you remove individual contacts from a group while keeping the contact itself untouched.
Enable Google Assistant with the Power Button
Holding down the power button on your Huawei phone should launch Google Assistant instantly, but nothing happens because the shortcut sits inside the accessibility tools and is usually switched off. Without it enabled, you always have to swipe up from the home screen or say the wake word to reach the assistant. This toggle is easy to miss since it is buried several menus deep in EMUI.
Add a WiFi Network Manually
If your Huawei phone does not list a WiFi network in the scan results, the router is usually hiding its SSID broadcast. In that case the network has to be added by hand, using the exact network name and password. Getting the SSID wrong by even one character keeps the connection from working.
Set Default Volume Button Control
Pressing the volume buttons on your Huawei phone usually adjusts the media volume, even when you want to turn the ringtone up or down. That mismatch often causes missed calls while music or video sound stays loud. The Default volume button control setting decides which audio type reacts to the hardware buttons.
Block a Contact
Getting repeated calls or texts from a number you want nothing to do with is annoying, especially when it keeps happening after you have already ignored several attempts. On EMUI, unwanted contacts stay reachable until you actively block them at the contact level, so calls and messages keep coming through by default. This applies to any contact saved on your Huawei phone, not just unknown numbers.
Delete a Keyboard Language
Once you have added several keyboard languages, switching between them on your Huawei phone gets slower and the language bar feels cluttered. Layouts you no longer type in still sit in the SwiftKey Keyboard language list and keep their dictionary data on your storage. Removing an unused language tidies up the list and frees the space its data occupied.