Rename SIM Card
On a dual-SIM Huawei phone, both slots often show only the carrier name, which makes it hard to tell your two lines apart at a glance. This gets annoying fast if one SIM is for work and the other for personal calls. A custom label fixes that without touching your carrier settings.
Add a New Fingerprint
Only one fingerprint saved on your Huawei phone means unlocking fails whenever you use your other hand or someone else needs quick access. EMUI actually supports several stored fingerprints, but the option to register another one sits deep inside the Biometrics and password settings and is easy to overlook. Renaming an existing entry is optional and can be done later.
View Call History for One Contact
Your Huawei call history mixes every call together, so tracking how often you have talked to one specific contact means scrolling through the entire list. Instead of filtering manually, the Phone app can pull up a focused call log for that contact. This same screen is also where you clear that person's call records without touching the rest of your history.
Simple Contact View
If your contacts list is cluttered with profile pictures, company names and extra fields, scanning for a phone number takes longer than it should. Huawei devices include a simplified view that hides everything except the core details. This is especially useful if you mainly need quick access to numbers rather than full contact cards.
Enable App Lock
Anyone who picks up your Huawei phone while it is unlocked can open messaging, banking, or gallery apps without any extra check. App Lock adds a second PIN or password on top of your screen lock, but only for the apps you choose to protect.
Choose Which Contacts Account to Display
If your contact list on a Huawei phone mixes SIM entries, Google contacts and messenger numbers into one messy view, the display setting is set to show every account at once. This makes it hard to find people saved only on your SIM or only in Google, especially after switching phones or adding a new account. You can limit the list to a single source instead of scrolling through duplicates.
Block a Phone Number from Call History
If the same unknown caller keeps turning up in your call log, that's rarely a coincidence. Many of these numbers belong to fake contests, surveys or robocall campaigns that dial repeatedly. Huawei lets you stop this directly from the call log entry, no separate blocklist app needed.
Enable Desktop Site in Browser
Websites open in a scaled-down mobile layout on your Huawei phone, and some buttons or menus stay hidden because of that. Online banking portals, admin panels or older shop systems often only show their full feature set once the desktop layout loads. The browser normally switches back to mobile view on its own after you close the tab or leave the page.
Turn Mobile Data On or Off
If apps stop loading data outside Wi-Fi range or your phone shows no internet connection away from home, mobile data is likely switched off or an app is blocking background data. Huawei phones separate the mobile data toggle from Wi-Fi, so turning it off cuts cellular internet access completely once you leave a Wi-Fi network. A missing or wrong APN can cause the same symptom even when mobile data is already turned on.
Enable App Lock
If anyone can open your banking, messaging, or gallery app just by unlocking your phone, that app has no protection of its own. Huawei phones let you add a separate passcode or fingerprint check to specific apps, but the option is easy to miss because it sits inside the general security settings rather than inside each app.
Enable or Disable Advanced Visual Effects
Menus that fade in and out, icons that bounce, apps that animate on launch - these transition effects look nice but can make a Huawei phone feel sluggish, especially on older models. If your device lags while switching between screens or opening apps, the Advanced visual effects setting is often the reason.
Change the AP Band for Mobile Hotspot
Your Huawei phone hands out its mobile hotspot on 2.4 GHz by default, and that works with almost any WLAN device but slows things down once several gadgets share the same channel. Laptops, tablets or streaming sticks that support 5 GHz stay stuck on the slower band until you switch it manually. This shows up as sluggish transfers or buffering whenever more than one device connects to your hotspot at the same time.
Enable or Disable Object Tracking in Camera
When you tap a moving subject on the viewfinder and the focus box does not follow it, object tracking is likely switched off. With this option active, the camera keeps focus locked on the tapped subject even while you move your Huawei device or the subject shifts position.
Enable or Disable Flip to Mute
If a call or alarm keeps blaring while you are stuck in a meeting, Flip to mute can silence your Huawei phone the moment you turn it face down. The setting is not all-or-nothing though, since you can limit it to incoming calls, extend it to timers and alarms, or turn the whole motion control off. Get the toggle wrong and you either lose that quick silence trick or end up muting alarms you actually wanted to hear.
Set Screen Resolution Manually
If photos, videos, or text look softer than they should on your Huawei phone, Smart resolution is likely lowering the display output to save power. This automatic setting is on by default and can leave a high-resolution panel running below its real sharpness. You can override it and pick a fixed resolution yourself instead of letting the system decide.
Ringtone Volume Settings
If your Huawei phone rings too loud or too quiet compared to media playback, the ringtone volume runs on its own slider. This also affects notification sounds for incoming SMS or WhatsApp messages, so a wrong setting can mean missed calls or overly loud alerts.
Add a New Browser Tab
Comparing gadget prices or checking multiple news articles usually means closing your current page just to open another one. On Huawei phones the Browser app lets you keep the page you are on running in the background while you open a fresh tab for research. Many users overlook this because the tab controls sit in a spot that is easy to miss on first use.
Set Separate Volume for Media, Ringtone, Alarms and Calls
If your ringtone blasts at full volume while alarms barely wake you up, or media volume drowns out an incoming call, the four sound categories on your Huawei phone run on separate levels. EMUI keeps Media, Ringtone, Alarm and Calls as independent sliders, so turning down one does not touch the others. Getting a balanced setup means checking each slider on its own.
Add Calendar Account
If your Huawei calendar only shows events from one source, you're likely missing a second sync account like a work inbox or a personal Google calendar. The Calendar app supports several account types side by side, but each one has to be added manually, and picking the wrong type (Exchange, Google, or Corporate) can lead to sync errors or missing invites.
Filter Call List by Missed Calls
When your call log on a Huawei phone fills up with dozens of entries, spotting the calls you actually missed gets tedious. The Phone app can switch between showing every call or only the missed ones, but that toggle is easy to overlook if you have never used it before.
Delete a Photo
When storage on your Huawei phone runs low or a shot simply didn't turn out right, removing single pictures from the Gallery app is the fastest fix. Many users hesitate at the delete confirmation because it's unclear whether removing an image locally also wipes the cloud backup. Knowing what the 'Also delete from Cloud gallery and synced albums' toggle actually does prevents losing photos on other synced devices by accident.
Pair Messages for Web with a PC
When a text comes in while you are working on your laptop, reaching for the Huawei phone every time gets old fast. Messages for web only works once the phone and the browser tab have been linked through a QR code scan, and that pairing session can drop if the phone loses network or the browser tab closes. If the scanner window on the computer stays blank or the code never gets recognized, the two devices are usually not on the same Wi-Fi network or the phone camera has not been given permission.
Remove an Assigned Number from Speed Dial
When every speed dial slot on your Huawei phone is already taken, adding a new contact means one of the existing entries has to go first. Many users only find the option to change or delete a slot after the assigned number, not the contact itself, gets edited.
Pin the Keyboard to One Side
Typing one-handed on a large Huawei phone usually means stretching your thumb across the full keyboard width, which is slow and often triggers typos. The Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard built into EMUI has no dedicated one-handed switch, so the keyboard stays centered and full-width by default. Resizing it manually is the only way to shift it to one side.