Number Position in Number & Symbols Keyboard Layout
Switching to the number and symbol layout on a Huawei keyboard usually puts every digit in one row at the top, mixed in with punctuation. That works for quick typing, but it slows you down when you enter phone numbers, PINs or amounts often. SwiftKey Keyboard lets you swap that row for a numeric keypad instead, aligned to the left or right side of the screen.
Enable or Disable Auto-Rotate Screen
When you tilt your Huawei phone sideways, the screen sometimes stays locked in portrait instead of switching to landscape. This usually happens because Auto-rotate got switched off, either by accident or through a stray tap in the quick settings panel. Without it active, apps like your gallery, browser or video player will not adjust to how you actually hold the phone.
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.
Move the Default Home Screen Position
On a Huawei phone, the first home screen page is fixed as the default one, even after you add several more screens. If you want a different page, like the third one, to open first when you press the home button or add new app icons, you have to reposition that page manually instead of just rearranging widgets on it. This trips up a lot of people who build a five-screen layout and then wonder why apps keep landing on the wrong page.
Show or Hide Carrier Name on Display
If the carrier name of your SIM card keeps showing up next to the signal icon on your Huawei phone, that comes from a display option tied to your SIM setup. Some people want that label visible to tell dual-SIM slots apart at a glance, others find it clutters the status bar. Either way, the toggle sits in a display menu that is easy to miss.
Resize a Widget on the Home Screen
A widget that takes up half the screen or shows too little information usually just has the wrong size set. On Huawei phones this happens after moving a widget between home screens or after a system update resets its layout. Adjusting the size fixes cramped text and oversized tiles without removing and re-adding the widget.
Home Screen Wipe Effects
If swiping between home screens always triggers the same left-right slide, the transition assigned to your home screen is locked to Standard. Huawei lets you swap this animation for a different visual style, but the setting sits inside a long-press menu most people never open. Until you change it, every screen swap looks identical no matter how many home screens you use.
Change the Wallpaper
If your Huawei phone still shows the wallpaper it came with, or the lock screen and home screen no longer match a picture you saved, the wallpaper settings are easy to miss inside the display menu. Many people only find the gallery picker or the preinstalled wallpaper collection by accident. Knowing where EMUI separates lock screen, home screen and combined wallpaper options saves a lot of tapping around.
Delete a Widget from the Home Screen
A Widget stuck on your Huawei home screen keeps eating battery or mobile data long after you stopped using the app behind it. Outdated content, a cluttered layout, or a Widget that refreshes constantly in the background are common reasons to get rid of it. Removing it does not delete the app itself, only the shortcut tile on your screen.
Change Themes
If your Huawei home screen still looks the same after picking a new wallpaper, you are probably in the wrong menu. Icon shapes, lock screen style and color accents on Huawei phones are controlled together by one dedicated theme setting, not by the wallpaper picker alone. This guide points you to the exact screen where you apply or customize a full theme.
Adjust Display Size
If icons, menus, and text look too small or too large on your Huawei phone, the display size setting is probably not matched to your eyes or your screen. Resizing screen elements can shift app shortcuts to a different spot on the home screen, which makes apps seem to have vanished. This is a scaling setting, not a broken app or missing icon.