Mute Camera Shutter Sound
Every photo you take triggers a loud shutter sound, even in quiet places like a meeting or a museum. This comes from a setting inside the camera app itself, not from your ringer or media volume. If the sound keeps playing regardless of your volume buttons, the camera has its own audio toggle that needs to be changed separately.
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.
Share a Contact
Typing out a phone number or email address by hand almost always leads to a typo somewhere, especially when copying it into a text message. Huawei phones let you send an entire contact card directly as a QR code, vCard or plain text instead of retyping every digit. Which format works best depends on the app you want to use and whether the recipient is standing next to you or on the other side of the country.
Add Members to a Contact Group
If you set up a group in Contacts but left someone out, you don't need to delete and recreate it on your Huawei phone. The group editor supports multi-select, so you can drop several people into an existing group in one pass.
Add a New User Account
Lending your Huawei phone to a family member or friend usually means they see your apps, photos and messages instead of a clean setup. Without a separate profile, everyone shares the same home screen, contacts and background, which gets messy fast. A dedicated user account keeps your data private while giving the other person their own space to customize.
Enlarge Mouse Pointer
Once you connect an USB mouse to your Huawei phone, the pointer often stays tiny and hard to track on the display. This becomes a real problem if you rely on precise cursor control or have limited vision. EMUI includes a dedicated accessibility option to fix this without extra apps.
Set Long-Press Duration for the Keyboard
If holding down a key on your Huawei keyboard inserts alternate symbols too fast or too slow, the long-press duration on SwiftKey Keyboard is not tuned to your typing speed. This delay controls exactly when a background character, like an accent mark or number, appears after you press and hold a key. The default sits at 450ms, but you can move it anywhere between 100ms and 1600ms.
Connect to Wi-Fi via WPS
Typing a long Wi-Fi password on a Huawei phone is easy to get wrong, especially with mixed-case or special characters. If your router has a WPS button, you can skip password entry entirely and pair the devices directly. This only works if WPS is enabled on the router and the phone is close enough to receive the signal.
Additional TalkBack Navigation Settings
TalkBack changes how you interact with your Huawei phone, but the default gestures do not always match your habits. If single taps feel too slow or the context menu is hard to scan, extra TalkBack settings let you adjust tap selection, menu display and touch gestures separately.
Unpair a Bluetooth Device
Old Bluetooth connections pile up fast on a Huawei phone, especially after pairing with rental cars, speakers, or a friend's headphones you only used once. If a device you no longer use still shows up in your paired list, a broken or outdated pairing can also cause connection errors with a replacement device sharing the same name. Removing the pairing clears the stored connection completely, so the phone treats it as brand new next time.
Show Week Number in Calendar
Counting weeks manually to schedule a meeting or track a deadline gets old fast. On Huawei phones the calendar app can show the week number next to each row, but the option sits buried in a settings menu most people never open.
Enable or Disable Display Animations
If your Huawei phone feels sluggish every time you open the app drawer or switch menus, the fading and blur effects built into the interface are often the reason. These animations look nice but add rendering time on every screen transition, which is noticeable on older or heavily used devices. Turning them off can make the whole interface feel snappier without changing anything else on the phone.
Merge Call History by Time or Contact
If your call log on a Huawei phone lists every single call separately, spotting all conversations with one contact takes forever. EMUI lets you merge these entries either by time or by contact, which changes how the log groups calls and where details like duration show up.
TalkBack Speech Rate Setting
If TalkBack reads screen content too fast or too slow to follow, the speech rate is still on its default value. That makes spoken feedback either rush past important details or drag out simple actions. Huawei lets you fine-tune this speed separately from language and pitch settings.
Enable or Disable Arrow Keys
Typing on a Huawei phone often means no way to move the cursor without tapping blindly at the text. That is because the SwiftKey keyboard hides its arrow keys by default. If you need precise cursor control for editing messages or code, the toggle for this sits in the keyboard typing settings.
Set a Custom Notification Sound
Every incoming message on your Huawei phone uses the same default tone, and the handful of pre-installed notification sounds start to sound alike after a while. EMUI actually lets you use any audio file already stored on the device as a custom notification sound, but the option to browse your own music library sits several taps deep in the sound settings, not in the notification settings where most people look first.
Special App Access Overview
When an app suddenly ignores battery optimization, changes system settings, or keeps running in the background without asking again, a special permission is usually behind it. These extra permissions are separate from the regular camera, microphone, or location toggles and sit in their own menu on Huawei phones. Most users never open this screen, so unwanted access can stay active for months.
Remove App Shortcut from Home Screen
If your Huawei home screen doubles as an app drawer, every icon on it is a live shortcut, not a folder tile. Deleting one only clears the icon from view, and that confuses users who expect it to behave like an uninstall. The app itself, along with its data, keeps running in the background.
Show Frequently Contacted Numbers
If you keep scrolling through your Huawei call log to find the people you actually talk to most, the frequently contacted list is easy to miss. EMUI keeps these automatically tracked contacts inside the Favourites screen, mixed in with people you pinned manually, so the two groups look the same but come from different sources.
Clear App Cache
When an app on your Huawei phone freezes, crashes, or throws error messages out of nowhere, a bloated or corrupted cache is often the reason. Temporary files pile up over time and can overlap or conflict with the app's normal data. Clearing just that one app's cache resets its temporary storage without touching your photos, logins, or settings.
Enable or Disable Wi-Fi+
If your Huawei phone keeps jumping onto mobile data even though you are sitting right next to your router, Wi-Fi+ is probably the reason. The feature watches your current Wi-Fi signal and switches connections on its own once it judges the network too weak. That can mean surprise mobile data usage or a phone that never stays on the Wi-Fi network you actually want.
Mark a Contact as Favorite
Scrolling through a long alphabetical contact list every time you want to call your partner or best friend wastes time on a Huawei phone. Marking a contact as favorite pulls them into a separate favourites list inside the call app, so frequent contacts stay one tap away. The saved contact data itself does not change, only how it appears in the call app.
Enable or Disable Mistouch Prevention
If your Huawei phone in your pocket keeps dialing numbers or opening apps on its own, the touchscreen is likely reacting to fabric or skin contact. Mistouch prevention is built to block exactly this kind of accidental input, but it can also get in the way if you actually want to use the screen while it is partially covered. Knowing where this option lives helps you decide whether to keep it active or switch it off.
Set Notch Display Areas
Some apps stretch content right into the notch area, so a status icon or a piece of text gets clipped by the front camera cutout. Other apps leave the space next to the notch pitch black, wasting screen real estate on your Huawei phone. Both issues come down to how EMUI renders the notch zone for full-screen content.