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.
Rename SIM Card
On a dual-SIM Huawei phone, both slots often show only the carrier name, which makes it hard to tell your two lines apart at a glance. This gets annoying fast if one SIM is for work and the other for personal calls. A custom label fixes that without touching your carrier settings.
Add a New Fingerprint
Only one fingerprint saved on your Huawei phone means unlocking fails whenever you use your other hand or someone else needs quick access. EMUI actually supports several stored fingerprints, but the option to register another one sits deep inside the Biometrics and password settings and is easy to overlook. Renaming an existing entry is optional and can be done later.
View Call History for One Contact
Your Huawei call history mixes every call together, so tracking how often you have talked to one specific contact means scrolling through the entire list. Instead of filtering manually, the Phone app can pull up a focused call log for that contact. This same screen is also where you clear that person's call records without touching the rest of your history.
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.
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Downloading apps as APK files from random websites on your Huawei phone can expose you to malware and outdated software.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.
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.
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.
Block a Phone Number from Call History
If the same unknown caller keeps turning up in your call log, that's rarely a coincidence. Many of these numbers belong to fake contests, surveys or robocall campaigns that dial repeatedly. Huawei lets you stop this directly from the call log entry, no separate blocklist app needed.
Enable Desktop Site in Browser
Websites open in a scaled-down mobile layout on your Huawei phone, and some buttons or menus stay hidden because of that. Online banking portals, admin panels or older shop systems often only show their full feature set once the desktop layout loads. The browser normally switches back to mobile view on its own after you close the tab or leave the page.
Turn Mobile Data On or Off
If apps stop loading data outside Wi-Fi range or your phone shows no internet connection away from home, mobile data is likely switched off or an app is blocking background data. Huawei phones separate the mobile data toggle from Wi-Fi, so turning it off cuts cellular internet access completely once you leave a Wi-Fi network. A missing or wrong APN can cause the same symptom even when mobile data is already turned on.
Enable App Lock
If anyone can open your banking, messaging, or gallery app just by unlocking your phone, that app has no protection of its own. Huawei phones let you add a separate passcode or fingerprint check to specific apps, but the option is easy to miss because it sits inside the general security settings rather than inside each app.
Enable or Disable Advanced Visual Effects
Menus that fade in and out, icons that bounce, apps that animate on launch - these transition effects look nice but can make a Huawei phone feel sluggish, especially on older models. If your device lags while switching between screens or opening apps, the Advanced visual effects setting is often the reason.
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.
Enable or Disable Object Tracking in Camera
When you tap a moving subject on the viewfinder and the focus box does not follow it, object tracking is likely switched off. With this option active, the camera keeps focus locked on the tapped subject even while you move your Huawei device or the subject shifts position.
Enable or Disable Flip to Mute
If a call or alarm keeps blaring while you are stuck in a meeting, Flip to mute can silence your Huawei phone the moment you turn it face down. The setting is not all-or-nothing though, since you can limit it to incoming calls, extend it to timers and alarms, or turn the whole motion control off. Get the toggle wrong and you either lose that quick silence trick or end up muting alarms you actually wanted to hear.
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.
Ringtone Volume Settings
If your Huawei phone rings too loud or too quiet compared to media playback, the ringtone volume runs on its own slider. This also affects notification sounds for incoming SMS or WhatsApp messages, so a wrong setting can mean missed calls or overly loud alerts.
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.
Add a New Browser Tab
Comparing gadget prices or checking multiple news articles usually means closing your current page just to open another one. On Huawei phones the Browser app lets you keep the page you are on running in the background while you open a fresh tab for research. Many users overlook this because the tab controls sit in a spot that is easy to miss on first use.
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.
Set Separate Volume for Media, Ringtone, Alarms and Calls
If your ringtone blasts at full volume while alarms barely wake you up, or media volume drowns out an incoming call, the four sound categories on your Huawei phone run on separate levels. EMUI keeps Media, Ringtone, Alarm and Calls as independent sliders, so turning down one does not touch the others. Getting a balanced setup means checking each slider on its own.