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.
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.
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.
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.
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.