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 Display Animations
If your Huawei phone feels sluggish every time you open the app drawer or switch menus, the fading and blur effects built into the interface are often the reason. These animations look nice but add rendering time on every screen transition, which is noticeable on older or heavily used devices. Turning them off can make the whole interface feel snappier without changing anything else on the phone.
Merge Call History by Time or Contact
If your call log on a Huawei phone lists every single call separately, spotting all conversations with one contact takes forever. EMUI lets you merge these entries either by time or by contact, which changes how the log groups calls and where details like duration show up.
TalkBack Speech Rate Setting
If TalkBack reads screen content too fast or too slow to follow, the speech rate is still on its default value. That makes spoken feedback either rush past important details or drag out simple actions. Huawei lets you fine-tune this speed separately from language and pitch settings.
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.
Set a Custom Notification Sound
Every incoming message on your Huawei phone uses the same default tone, and the handful of pre-installed notification sounds start to sound alike after a while. EMUI actually lets you use any audio file already stored on the device as a custom notification sound, but the option to browse your own music library sits several taps deep in the sound settings, not in the notification settings where most people look first.
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.
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.
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.