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.
Show Frequently Contacted Numbers
If you keep scrolling through your Huawei call log to find the people you actually talk to most, the frequently contacted list is easy to miss. EMUI keeps these automatically tracked contacts inside the Favourites screen, mixed in with people you pinned manually, so the two groups look the same but come from different sources.
Clear App Cache
When an app on your Huawei phone freezes, crashes, or throws error messages out of nowhere, a bloated or corrupted cache is often the reason. Temporary files pile up over time and can overlap or conflict with the app's normal data. Clearing just that one app's cache resets its temporary storage without touching your photos, logins, or settings.
Enable or Disable Wi-Fi+
If your Huawei phone keeps jumping onto mobile data even though you are sitting right next to your router, Wi-Fi+ is probably the reason. The feature watches your current Wi-Fi signal and switches connections on its own once it judges the network too weak. That can mean surprise mobile data usage or a phone that never stays on the Wi-Fi network you actually want.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set a Timer in the Clock App
If you need a countdown instead of a fixed alarm time, the Timer function in the Clock app on your Huawei phone does exactly that. It counts down from a time you set and triggers an alert the moment it reaches zero. Getting the exact second right can be fiddly if you are not used to the swipe-based time picker.
Exit Simple Mode
If your Huawei home screen suddenly shows oversized icons and a stripped-down layout, Simple mode is active. This view limits app grouping and hides several settings that are normally visible on the standard home screen.
Add Calendar Account
If your Huawei calendar only shows events from one source, you're likely missing a second sync account like a work inbox or a personal Google calendar. The Calendar app supports several account types side by side, but each one has to be added manually, and picking the wrong type (Exchange, Google, or Corporate) can lead to sync errors or missing invites.
Configure Personal Hotspot Name and Password
If your personal hotspot still broadcasts the factory-set name and password, anyone nearby can recognize your phone and try to connect. A weak or default password also makes it easy for strangers to guess their way onto your data plan without asking first.
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.
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.
Enable or Disable Flash Notification Light
If your Huawei phone stays dark when a message or call comes in, the flash notification light might be switched off. This feature blinks the camera flash for incoming alerts, but it is buried deep in the notification settings and not every Huawei model supports it.
Make a Phone Call
If you just switched to a Huawei phone, the dialer layout can look unfamiliar compared to other Android phones you have used before. Contacts, recents and the keypad all sit inside one Phone app, and it is not always clear where to type a number and how to start the call.
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.
Enable or Disable JavaScript in Browser
If buttons, forms, or interactive menus stop working in the Huawei Browser, JavaScript is often switched off for that site. Pages can also feel sluggish or burn through extra data when scripts run constantly in the background. Turning the setting on or off fixes broken pages or lets you cut data use and reduce tracking on sites you trust less.
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.
Home Screen Loop: Enable or Disable
Swipe past the last home screen page and land right back on the first one instead of stopping at the edge? That is Home screen loop, a setting that makes your pages cycle in an endless circle. It gets confusing fast if a widget or app group suddenly seems to vanish mid-swipe, when in reality you just looped back to the front page.
Answering an Incoming Call
When a call comes in on your Huawei phone, a single tap on the screen does not answer it. Instead of a fixed accept button, the lock screen shows a draggable circle icon, which confuses anyone expecting a simple tap-to-answer control.
Swipe to Go Forwards/Backwards in Browser
Swiping in from the left or right edge of the screen in the Huawei Browser app suddenly jumps to a different page, even when you only meant to scroll. This happens when the built-in 'Swipe to go forwards/backwards' gesture is active and reacts to touches that start too close to the edge. Turning the feature off or back on resolves the conflict without touching any other browser setting.
Clear Browser Cache
If web pages in the Huawei Browser load slowly, show outdated layouts, or old form data keeps reappearing, a bloated cache is usually the cause. Cached pages pile up in the background and are rarely cleared automatically. This mostly affects the built-in Browser app, not other apps that store their own cache separately.