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Huawei: Enable or Disable Smart Cover Display Window

When you close a smart cover with a cutout window on your Huawei phone, the screen behind the window stays blank instead of showing the time or date. This happens because the Smart cover feature is switched off or the display window option inside it was never turned on. A related step counter toggle controls whether your daily steps show up in that same window.

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Enable or Disable Smart Cover Display Window auf Huawei

Huawei phones with EMUI recognize compatible smart covers that have a small cutout window. Once the phone detects the cover, a dedicated Smart cover menu controls what appears through that window.

If the window stays dark after closing the cover, the feature itself is usually turned off, or it is active but the display window sub-option was left disabled. The step counter works independently from the clock display, so you can show one, both, or neither.

To adjust this, go to Open the settingsTap on Accessibility featuresTap on Smart cover. From there, use Activate or deactivate Smart cover to turn the whole feature on or off.

Once Smart cover is active, use Activate or deactivate Use display window or Show step count to choose whether the time and date appear, whether your step count appears, or both at once.

If your cover has no cutout window at all, this menu has no visible effect since there is no window for the phone to drive. Battery drain from a lit display window is minimal, since the panel behind a smart cover only shows a small always-on style overlay rather than the full screen.

Frequently asked questions

The Smart cover option only appears once EMUI detects a compatible cover with a magnetic sensor. Covers without this sensor or without a cutout window will not trigger the menu, even if Accessibility features are otherwise available.