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.
Change Text Size
If small letters make you squint or large text pushes words off the screen, the font size on your Huawei is set wrong for your eyes. EMUI lets you scale text independently from icons and layout, but many people never find the right slider. Getting the size wrong also throws off how much content fits on a single screen.
Add More Details to a Contact
If your contact list only shows a name and phone number, you are missing space for details like birthdays, addresses or website links. On Huawei phones, this extra information lives on the same contact card, but the fields for it stay hidden until you open edit mode. Many users never notice they exist.
Set Up Gesture Input
If the SwiftKey keyboard on your Huawei phone still forces you to tap every single letter, gesture input is either switched off or set to the wrong mode. Huawei offers two swipe based typing styles: Flow lets you glide from letter to letter to form whole words, while Gestures maps swipes to quick actions like deleting a word or hiding the keyboard. Mixing these two modes up usually explains why swiping feels unpredictable while you type.
Set the Calendar Start Day of Week
If your Huawei calendar always opens with Sunday as the first column instead of Monday, that setting was locked in during the initial region selection when you set up the phone. You do not need to change the region or reset the device to fix this. The Calendar app has its own setting for this that overrides the regional default.
Adjust Display Brightness
If your Huawei screen looks too dim outdoors or way too bright at night, the brightness slider is simply set for the wrong situation. Auto-brightness can fight against manual changes too, snapping the screen back to a level you did not pick. Getting this right matters because the display is one of the biggest battery drains on any phone.
Location Scanning via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Even with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched off, your Huawei phone can still run short scans of nearby networks and devices to pinpoint your location. This happens whenever an app with location permission asks for the most accurate fix available, no matter what your radio toggles say. The scanning behavior sits in a separate setting from the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switches themselves, which is why turning those off doesn't stop it.
Add a New Contact
Adding a contact on your Huawei phone with just a name and number skips details like birthday, address, or a relationship note. Many people also miss the option to set a custom ringtone for a single contact right when they create it. Those extra fields exist, they just sit one step further than the basic form.
Enable Complex Calculator Functions
The default calculator on most Android phones only handles basic arithmetic, so many users search the Play Store for a scientific calculator app just to get functions like sine, cosine, or logarithms. On Huawei phones running EMUI, that extra download is unnecessary, but switching to the extended mode is not obvious if you only ever use the calculator in portrait orientation. The trigger sits in how you hold the phone, not in a hidden menu.
Enable or Disable Wi-Fi Calling
If your Huawei phone shows only one or two bars indoors, regular calls often drop or sound choppy even though your Wi-Fi connection is fine. Wi-Fi Calling routes voice calls through your wireless network instead of the mobile signal, which fixes exactly this kind of dead-zone problem. Before you turn it on for the first time, it helps to know that emergency calls are not supported over Wi-Fi Calling.
Rename a Paired Bluetooth Device
Bluetooth headphones or speakers often show up in your paired devices list with nothing but a cryptic model number. Once you have paired several accessories on your Huawei phone, telling them apart becomes guesswork. A custom name for each device fixes this without any extra app.
Change Voice Command Language
If your Huawei phone still listens for commands in the language you picked during setup, giving instructions in a different language often gets ignored. Voice control stores one fixed language and does not follow your device's system language automatically. That mismatch is why commands get misheard or simply do nothing.
Enable or Disable Location Tag
If your camera app is not saving where a photo or video was taken, the location tag is switched off by default on most Huawei phones. Without it, sorting or searching your gallery by place becomes a lot harder, especially once your library grows. Turning the tag on lets you find shots again just by the location where you took them.
Set Up Face Unlock
Typing in a PIN every time you pick up your Huawei phone gets old fast, and many owners never notice that face recognition sits ready to take over. The front camera can store your facial data locally and use it not only to unlock the screen but also to open individual locked apps. Getting the feature turned on means digging through the Biometric and password menu, which is easy to miss on first look.
Set Time Zone Manually
If your Huawei phone shows the wrong hour after switching networks or SIM cards, the automatic time zone detection is picking up incorrect network data. This mostly happens on Wi-Fi-only devices, in areas with weak signal, or with local SIMs that report the wrong region. As long as automatic detection stays active, any manual change gets reset right away.