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.
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.
Show Week Number in Calendar
Counting weeks manually to schedule a meeting or track a deadline gets old fast. On Huawei phones the calendar app can show the week number next to each row, but the option sits buried in a settings menu most people never open.
Enable or Disable Arrow Keys
Typing on a Huawei phone often means no way to move the cursor without tapping blindly at the text. That is because the SwiftKey keyboard hides its arrow keys by default. If you need precise cursor control for editing messages or code, the toggle for this sits in the keyboard typing settings.
Enable or Disable Mistouch Prevention
If your Huawei phone in your pocket keeps dialing numbers or opening apps on its own, the touchscreen is likely reacting to fabric or skin contact. Mistouch prevention is built to block exactly this kind of accidental input, but it can also get in the way if you actually want to use the screen while it is partially covered. Knowing where this option lives helps you decide whether to keep it active or switch it off.
Enable or Disable AI-Lens
If your Huawei camera keeps popping up code reader, translation, shopping or calorie icons you never asked for, AI-Lens is running in the background. It scans whatever the lens sees to identify objects, translate text or check nutrition info, and that constant scanning also adds a small delay to the viewfinder. Switching it off - or back on when you actually need it - only takes one tap.
Disable Personalized Ads
Seeing promotional banners that match your recent searches or app usage a little too closely usually means personalized advertising is switched on. Turning this off will not reduce the number of ads on your Huawei phone, it only stops them from being tailored to your habits.
Scan a Business Card into Contacts
Typing out a new contact from a paper business card takes time and often ends up with typos in the phone number or email address. Many Huawei phones can read the printed text directly through the camera and turn it into a contact entry. The feature sits inside the Contacts app rather than the camera app, which is why most people never find it.
Set Touch & Hold Delay
If a long-press on an app icon or menu item reacts too slowly or triggers by accident, the touch & hold delay on your Huawei phone is set to the wrong level. This timing controls how long you need to keep pressing before actions like moving a shortcut or opening a context menu start. Short, Medium and Long each feel noticeably different in daily use.
Read Text on Images: Enable or Disable
If your Huawei phone stays silent when you point the camera at a sign or open a photo full of text, the Read text on images option inside Select to speak is probably switched off. This feature can read printed text aloud from photos and the live camera viewfinder, but it only works once the right accessibility permission is granted. Since it is still an experimental function, results can be inconsistent depending on lighting and text clarity.
Enable or Disable Keypad Tones
Every tap on the on-screen keyboard triggers a click or tone on some Huawei phones, and that sound can get annoying fast in quiet rooms or during calls. The feedback comes from a separate keypad tones setting that is independent from your general ringtone or notification sound. If typing suddenly sounds different after a system update, this setting is usually the reason.
Smile Detection Auto-Capture Toggle
If your Huawei camera keeps snapping photos on its own, Smile capture might be quietly working in the background. This feature scans faces in the viewfinder and fires the shutter the moment it spots a smile, even when you did not plan to take a picture. That behavior gets annoying fast during group shots or when you just want to frame a scene without triggering random captures.
Clear Browsing History in the Browser App
If your Huawei browser keeps suggesting sites you visited weeks ago, the address bar is pulling from stored browsing history. Clearing it removes every visited page from the record, not just a single suggestion.
Stopwatch: Start, Lap and Reset
If you need lap times on your Huawei phone, the Clock app's stopwatch often gets confused with the timer. It can record a single lap or several laps in a row, not just stop the clock once. Missing the right tap for lap tracking versus a full reset usually means a lost lap history.
Show or Hide Public Holidays in Calendar
If your Huawei calendar is cluttered with public holidays you never asked for, or missing the ones for your own country, the Calendar app treats national and regional holidays as separate settings. Some users only want to turn off regional dates while keeping national holidays visible, which is not obvious from the main calendar view. The toggle sits inside the app settings rather than the calendar display itself.
Enable or Disable Auto-align
On Huawei phones, deleting an app can trigger auto-align, which shifts every remaining icon to close the empty spot it left behind. If you have arranged apps in a specific order or grouped them by page, this automatic re-sorting can undo that layout without any extra confirmation.
Set Up Captions
If subtitles do not appear automatically when you play a video, or the caption text disappears against a light background, the caption function on your Huawei phone still needs a manual setup. EMUI keeps this feature off by default, so you have to activate it, pick a language, and adjust the text style yourself. Once configured correctly, captions stay readable regardless of the video background.
Enable or Disable Dual 4G
If one SIM card on your Huawei dual-SIM phone keeps dropping to 3G while the other stays on 4G, the Dual SIM 4G option is likely switched off. This setting decides whether both cards can use high-speed data at the same time or only one of them. It matters if you split calls and data across two numbers and expect both to run at full speed.
Enable or Disable HDR
If photos taken with your Huawei phone look washed out in bright light or too dark in shadows, HDR might be switched off. When it is active, the camera shoots several frames at different exposures and merges them, which can also cause ghosting on moving subjects. Knowing when to toggle this option makes a real difference in tricky lighting.
Colour Correction Setup
If reds and greens look almost identical on your Huawei phone, the standard display palette may not suit a colour vision deficiency. Icons, charts and notification badges that rely purely on colour can become hard to distinguish. EMUI offers several correction modes built for exactly this situation.
Raise to Wake and Mute Actions
If your Huawei phone keeps ringing at full volume after you pick it up, or the screen stays dark when you lift the device, the Raise motion settings probably do not match what you expect. This feature can lower the call, timer, or alarm volume and wake the device or display separately, but the toggles are easy to miss inside the Accessibility menu.
Remove a Member from a Contact Group
A contact group on your Huawei phone keeps growing until it includes people who no longer belong there. You don't need to delete the whole group just because one member has to go. EMUI lets you remove individual contacts from a group while keeping the contact itself untouched.
Change Text Size
If small letters make you squint or large text pushes words off the screen, the font size on your Huawei is set wrong for your eyes. EMUI lets you scale text independently from icons and layout, but many people never find the right slider. Getting the size wrong also throws off how much content fits on a single screen.