Enable or Disable TalkBack
If tapping the screen suddenly triggers spoken descriptions instead of opening apps, TalkBack is active on your Huawei phone. This screen reader changes how touch and swipe gestures work, which can make the phone hard to use if you did not turn it on intentionally. Knowing where the TalkBack switch sits helps you enable it for voice guidance or shut it off fast.
Enable or Disable Silent Mode
When silent mode is active on a Huawei phone, calls, messages and notification sounds stop playing entirely, even at full volume. Many users trigger this by accident through a side button combo or a quick settings tile, then wonder why the phone stays quiet.
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.
Choose a Print Service
When you try to print a PDF form or document from your Huawei phone, nothing happens if no print service is active. EMUI ships with a default printing option, but it stays switched off until you enable it in the system settings. Without an active print service, the print button in apps like Files or a browser stays grayed out even if a printer is already on your network or paired over Bluetooth.
Create a Photo Album
Scrolling through hundreds of unsorted pictures in the Huawei Gallery app makes it hard to find specific shots fast. Without separate albums, vacation photos, screenshots and everyday snaps all pile up in one long timeline, and older memories get buried within days.
Hide an Album in Gallery
Vacation photos or old screenshots keep cluttering the main view of your Gallery app, even though you rarely open them. Huawei EMUI lets you tuck entire albums out of sight without deleting a single file. The albums stay on your phone, just out of the default overview.
Set Priority Storage on SD Card
If your Huawei phone keeps filling up internal storage even with an SD card inserted, the camera app might still be saving new shots to the phone by default. A priority storage setting decides where single photos and videos land, but burst series and similar shots often skip that rule and stay on internal memory anyway.
Turn Off Camera Watermark
Every photo you take with your Huawei phone lands in the gallery with a small stamp in the bottom left corner, showing the device model that took the shot. This watermark gets baked into the image file itself, so it stays even if you share or print the picture later. If you want clean photos without that stamp, the watermark feature can be switched off in the camera settings.
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.
Connect to a Wi-Fi Network
If your Huawei phone shows no internet access or keeps dropping the connection, the Wi-Fi function itself might still be turned off. You need an active Wi-Fi connection before you can join a private network with a password or a public hotspot. Once Wi-Fi is switched on, your device lists every network within range so you can pick the right one.
Delete a Contact
Deleting a contact on your Huawei phone removes it permanently, even if it is synced as a Google contact. Once gone, EMUI does not offer an undo option, so a wrong tap can cost you a number for good.
Enable or Disable Mono Audio
If music, videos or calls sound the same from both speakers on your Huawei phone, the Mono audio option in the accessibility settings is likely switched on. It merges the left and right audio channels into one signal, so stereo separation disappears from movies, music and games. This is intended for listeners who only hear well on one side, but it becomes a problem when it gets toggled by accident.
Install an App from the Google Play Store
Downloading apps as APK files from random websites on your Huawei phone can expose you to malware and outdated software. The Google Play Store checks every app for security risks before it reaches your device, which makes it the safer route for almost any category or topic you are looking for.
Download and Apply a New Font
Tired of the same system font on your Huawei phone and want a different look for menus, messages, and notifications? Huawei phones let you swap the entire system font, but the option hides inside the theme store instead of the display settings most people check first.
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.
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.