Enable or Disable Service Messages
Random texts from your carrier about data usage, promotions, or account balance can clutter your inbox on a Huawei phone. These service messages come through the regular Messages app and are controlled by a setting most people never touch. If you keep getting them after asking your provider to stop, the toggle inside the Messages app is usually still switched on.
Force Stop an App
When an app on a Huawei phone freezes or the app switcher does not fully close it, the process keeps running in the background. This can drain battery, block notifications from other apps, or cause the screen to stay stuck. A force stop shuts the app down completely instead of just minimizing it.
Enable or Disable Automatic Brightness
If your Huawei display stays too dark indoors or glares in direct sunlight, automatic brightness is likely fighting your manual settings. The sensor reacts to ambient light and readjusts the screen on its own, which can feel unpredictable if you prefer fixed brightness levels.
Set Default SMS Messages App
If a new messaging app you installed from the Google Play Store never actually receives your texts, the old app is probably still set as default. Huawei phones send every SMS and MMS through whichever app is marked as the standard, no matter how many others sit on your home screen. Switching that setting is the only way to make a new app take over completely.
Set Up Parental Controls with Digital Balance
If your kid is glued to their Huawei phone and homework keeps getting pushed back, screen time is probably the real issue. Huawei bundles parental control inside the Digital Balance feature, which most parents never open because it looks like a personal wellbeing tool. Without setting limits here, apps stay unrestricted and screen time goes untracked.
Enable or Disable Smart Cover Display Window
When you close a smart cover with a cutout window on your Huawei phone, the screen behind the window stays blank instead of showing the time or date. This happens because the Smart cover feature is switched off or the display window option inside it was never turned on. A related step counter toggle controls whether your daily steps show up in that same window.
Switch Between User Accounts
Managing several user profiles on a Huawei phone gets confusing once you are past the initial setup. Right after creating a new account, the phone asks directly if you want to switch, but that prompt only appears once. After that, many people end up digging through the Settings app every time they just want to swap to another profile.
Manually Select a Mobile Network
Near a border or in a rural area, your Huawei phone might latch onto a foreign network that offers a stronger signal instead of your home carrier. This happens because automatic network search always prioritizes reception over your default provider. Roaming charges or dropped data sessions are the usual result until you pick the carrier yourself.
Set Up Fingerprint Unlock
If your Huawei phone still asks for a pattern, PIN or password every time you wake the screen, fingerprint unlock probably has not been set up yet. Huawei phones require an existing backup unlock method before a fingerprint can be registered, since the print alone is never used as the sole security layer. Without that fallback in place, the fingerprint menu blocks you from adding a print at all.
Set Up or Reset APN Settings
When mobile data stays off even though your SIM is active, a wrong or missing APN entry is often the cause. Carriers usually push this configuration automatically, but a failed update or a manual change can break the connection. If your Huawei phone shows a signal but no internet access, the APN list is the first place to check.
Unhide Albums in Gallery
Albums you hid in Gallery for privacy do not vanish, they just stop appearing in the main overview. If a folder with photos or videos suddenly seems missing on your Huawei phone, it is usually parked in the Hide albums list rather than deleted.
Allow Calls Through Do Not Disturb
When Do Not Disturb is active on a Huawei phone, urgent calls can get silenced along with everything else, so an important contact never gets through. EMUI lets you carve out exceptions so specific calls still ring while the rest stays muted. Getting this wrong usually means either missed calls from people who matter or a phone that keeps buzzing during focus time.
Activate or Deactivate a SIM Card
If you run Dual-SIM on your Huawei phone, you might want to switch off one number without pulling the physical card out. A deactivated SIM stops receiving calls, texts and mobile data until you turn it back on. This control sits inside the mobile network settings, not on the SIM tray or lock screen.
Turn Vibrate on Touch On or Off
Every tap on the back button, a menu item, or a toggle triggers a short buzz on your Huawei phone, even when you just want a quiet browsing session. Or the opposite happens: you rely on that haptic click to confirm a tap and suddenly it stops firing. Either way, the setting sits inside the sound options, not the vibration settings you would expect.
Enable or Disable Speak Passwords
When TalkBack reads out loud every character you type into a password field, anyone nearby can hear your login details. This happens because the Speak passwords option inside TalkBack is switched on by default on some Huawei phones. Turning it off keeps password entries silent while TalkBack still announces everything else.
Turn Personal Hotspot On or Off
When other devices show no internet connection through your Huawei phone, the personal hotspot is often switched off or was never configured. You can also give it a custom name and password so people around you connect quickly without sharing your regular Wi-Fi.
Set Alarm Volume Separately
If your alarm sounds too quiet or too loud even after adjusting the ringtone, the problem is not the ringtone at all. On Huawei phones the alarm has its own volume level, separate from calls and media playback. Missing this setting is a common reason people oversleep or get startled awake.
Enable or Disable Dual Clocks
Travel to a different time zone with your Huawei phone and the lock screen suddenly shows two clocks side by side. That second clock reflects your home city time and keeps appearing until you switch the dual clocks feature off or update the home time zone yourself.
Add a New User Account
Sharing your Huawei phone with family or a colleague usually means everyone sees your apps, photos, and messages. Adding a separate user account keeps each person's home screen, apps, and background apart from yours. Some settings, like WiFi, still stay shared across every user on the device.
Turn Wi-Fi On or Off
If your phone keeps burning through mobile data at home or at work, Wi-Fi might be switched off without you noticing. On the other hand, a Wi-Fi radio left running all day in areas with no network drains battery for nothing. Knowing exactly where this switch sits on your Huawei saves both your data plan and your battery.
Resize the On-Screen Keyboard
If the SwiftKey keyboard on your Huawei phone feels too large for one-handed typing or too cramped to hit the right keys, the default layout is likely still active. Height, width and position of the keyboard can all be adjusted independently of each other. This becomes noticeable especially on larger displays or when you switch between portrait and landscape typing.
Fingerprint Sensor as Camera Shutter
Taking selfies or group shots on a Huawei phone often means stretching a thumb across the screen for the shutter button while the frame shifts. The fingerprint sensor can act as that trigger instead, but the switch for it lives inside a security menu, not the camera app, so most people never find it.
Show WiFi Password as QR Code
Typing out a long WiFi password for a visiting friend gets annoying fast, especially with mixed-case letters and symbols. Your Huawei phone can turn the password of a network you are already connected to into a scannable QR code instead.
Show Alternate Calendars in the Calendar App
If your Calendar app only shows Gregorian dates, religious or cultural holidays like Islamic, Hebrew, or Chinese Lunar dates stay invisible next to your regular entries. EMUI hides this option inside the Calendar settings by default, so most users never notice it exists. Adding an alternate calendar shows a second date line under each day without replacing your main calendar.