Raise to Wake: Enable or Disable Screen Wake by Lifting
If your Huawei screen stays dark when you pick the phone up, or it keeps waking on its own during normal handling, the raise to wake behavior is likely set the wrong way. This function reads the motion sensor and turns the display on the moment the device is lifted or tilted. Even when raise to wake is active, a lock screen still needs a PIN or password before you get past 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 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.
Set Screen Timeout
If your Huawei display locks itself just seconds after you stop tapping it, or stays lit far too long and drains the battery, the Sleep setting is probably not matched to how you use the phone. This value decides when the screen goes into standby, anywhere from 15 seconds to 10 minutes of inactivity. If a password, PIN, or fingerprint is active as the unlock method, every standby also means unlocking again for the next tap.
Enable or Disable Dark Mode
Bright white screens can feel harsh at night or in dim rooms, and many Huawei users want a darker interface instead. Dark mode is meant to reduce that glare, ease eye strain, and cut down on battery use, but it is not always obvious where the toggle sits or why it seems to have no effect in some apps. If your screen still looks light after a system update or a reset, the setting has likely been switched back to its default.
Add a Bookmark to the Home Screen
Digging through a long list of saved bookmarks every time you want to check a specific website gets tedious fast. On Huawei phones, the browser keeps bookmarks buried inside its own menu instead of putting them within reach on the home screen. If you visit the same page daily, that extra detour through the app adds up.
Enable or Disable the Camera Assistive Grid
Photos with a tilted horizon or an off-center subject are a common problem when the camera app gives you no visual reference. Huawei phones include a 3x3 assistive grid for the camera, but it sits inside a settings menu that many people never open. Once it is active, lining up buildings, horizons and portraits gets noticeably easier.
Enable or Disable Screen Saver
If your Huawei phone's display stays completely black while charging instead of cycling through photos, the screen saver feature is probably switched off. Even when it's active, a missing picture source or a short playback duration can make it look like the feature isn't working at all.
Create a Folder on the Home Screen
When your Huawei home screen fills up with scattered app icons, finding the app you need turns into a scroll-and-search game. Grouping related apps into a folder clears space and keeps similar tools together. EMUI builds this folder automatically once you combine two app icons.
Delete a Folder from the Home Screen
A folder full of apps still sits on your Huawei home screen and there is no obvious delete option in the long-press menu. EMUI treats folders as containers, not standalone objects, so the delete function only kicks in once the folder is almost empty. If you just want the group gone without losing any apps, the trick is moving apps out one by one.
Delete a Theme
If the Themes section on your Huawei phone is packed with old designs you tried once and forgot about, finding the one you actually use gets tedious. Every downloaded theme keeps taking up storage and clutters the 'Me' tab until you remove it by hand.
Show or Hide Carrier Name in Status Bar
If the carrier name keeps showing up next to the notch on your Huawei phone, the status bar can look crowded fast. On Dual SIM devices both operator names stack on top of each other, making the display area feel even tighter. This setting controls whether that label appears at all.
Apply a Downloaded Theme
Downloading a wallpaper pack or icon set from the Huawei theme store does not change your home screen by itself. If your phone still shows the old layout after a download, the theme sits unapplied in the theme library and needs one more step to take effect.
App Icon Badge Display Mode
Notifications on your Huawei phone show up as a small red marker above the app icon, but it is not always obvious whether you are looking at a plain dot or an actual unread count. If the badge style does not match what you expect, the badge display setting is simply set the other way round. Switching between Numbers and Dots changes how much detail you get before you even open an app.
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.
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.
Rename a Home Screen Folder
If every folder on your Huawei home screen still shows a generic label, finding the right group of apps takes longer than it should. A folder full of shopping, banking or gaming apps only makes sense once it carries a name you actually recognize at a glance. This mix-up gets worse the more folders pile up on your screen.
Add a Widget to Your Home Screen
If your Huawei home screen only shows app icons, you are missing out on live information like stock prices, weather updates or calendar entries. EMUI hides the widget picker behind a long-press gesture that many people never discover. Without it, every app stays closed and your screen only shows static icons instead of updated content.
Home Screen Loop: Enable or Disable
Swipe past the last home screen page and land right back on the first one instead of stopping at the edge? That is Home screen loop, a setting that makes your pages cycle in an endless circle. It gets confusing fast if a widget or app group suddenly seems to vanish mid-swipe, when in reality you just looped back to the front page.
Switch Between Standard and Drawer Home Screen Style
On Huawei phones every installed app lands directly on the home screen by default, which fills your screens with icons fast. If you want a cleaner look and prefer to open all apps by swiping up on an app drawer instead, your phone is likely still set to the Standard style. Switching this setting also changes how new app icons behave after every install.
Add a New Home Screen Page
Running out of room on your Huawei home screen because every page is packed with icons? EMUI has no dedicated 'add page' button in settings - a new page only appears once you drag an app icon far enough toward the screen edge. If you only see icons snap back to the same page instead of a fresh one appearing, the drag distance or drop zone is likely off.
Change Home Screen Layout
If your Huawei phone only shows a 4x6 icon grid, you might be running out of room for apps without extra scrolling. Huawei lets you switch to a denser 5x5 or 5x6 layout on many models, but the exact options depend on the phone you own. Some devices show fewer grid choices or hide the setting under a slightly different name.
Move a Widget on the Home Screen
When a widget lands in an awkward spot on your Huawei home screen, it can block app icons or throw off your layout. Many people assume they have to remove the widget and add it again to fix its position. The widget can actually be repositioned directly, without deleting it first.
Remove Google Search Bar from Home Screen
Right after setting up a new Huawei phone, a Google search bar sits fixed on the home screen and eats up space you could use for apps or a wallpaper. Many people try to drag it away like a normal icon and end up moving other widgets instead. It behaves like a widget, so it needs the same long-press-and-remove approach, not a simple delete swipe.