Huawei has been one of the most successful manufacturers in our country. Since operators offered mobiles such as the Huawei Ascend P7 in exchange for hiring one of their rates, the firm’s smartphones have come to occupy the space of many Spanish users.
Being one of the main telephone sellers in our country, and with almost all the terminals updated with EMUI 9 or EMUI 10 , we are going to collect all those Huawei mobile tricks that we consider essential. For this we are going to organize them between common tricks that most devices can enjoy and those secrets hidden in the different versions of the operating system of the Chinese firm.
Universal tricks for all Huawei with Android
Apps drawer
While some manufacturers have been avoiding this format of organization of apps, Huawei allows you to set all applications on the desktop or in the app drawer, bringing them all together in one place. To activate it, access:
Settings> Home Screen and Wallpaper> Home Screen Style> App Drawer
Priority notifications
You can always prioritize notifications above the rest in order to receive them in a privileged place in the notification center.
Settings> Notifications and status bar> Notification center> Priority notifications
Home screen customization
If you hold your finger on an empty space on the main screen, you will see how it gives you the option of adding pages or rearranging the icons much faster. Also this gives you priority access to the Widgets catalog, change page transitions, change the wallpaper and directly access the screen settings.
Signature on lock screen
Either because you want to put your name because you want to add some contact information or interest, you can do it from the mobile screen settings.
Settings> Home Screen and Wallpaper> Lock screen signature
Search for apps
Since EMUI is EMUI there is Hi Search. This is the function that allows you to search between the settings and the applications installed on your phone and to discover it you only have to swipe with your finger from the central part of the screen downwards. This will enable a search bar at the top.
Screenshot with two taps
If you have wet hands or are uncomfortable taking the screenshot as you normally do, you can enable the gesture of tapping the screen with your knuckle to capture what appears on the phone.
Settings> Accessibility> Control Movements> Take screenshot
Shortcuts from the lock screen
Si arrastras desde abajo hacia arriba en la pantalla de bloqueo, aparecen varias opciones. From here you can turn on the flashlight, use HiVision to recognize the world around you, enable the calculator or use the sound recorder.
Dark “forced” mode
The “pure” dark mode came to Huawei phones with EMUI 10. However, other previous smartphones can use the function of inverting colors in the accessibility menu so that all white tones become dark and vice versa.
Settings> Accessibility> Invert colors
Hang up with the power button
If you don’t want to touch the screen and want to reject a call, you can set the smartphone to hang up with the lock button.
Settings> Accessibility> Power button hangs up
Draw letters to open apps
Another of the most useful gestures that we find on our mobile is the possibility of choosing which applications we can open by “drawing” a letter on the screen. In this way, if we execute a “W” we can open WhatsApp or the camera by making the “C” gesture.
Settings> Accessibility> Control movements> Open applications
Secrets present since EMUI 9
Gesture navigation
Yes, one of the best tricks of Huawei and Honor is the use of gestures to execute different actions on the mobile, such as turning it to answer a call or making a capture with a double touch, as we said previously. Again you will find its configuration among the Accessibility settings.
Settings> Accessibility> Control Movements> Movements
Change resolution to save battery
With this version of the operating system, the quality of the screen was enhanced to expand the life of the battery. For example, if your phone is factory configured with FHD + resolution, reduce it to HD +, it can save a lot of battery.
Settings> Display and brightness> screen resolution
Use facial recognition unlock
Unlocking a mobile with a fingerprint is nice, but with our face it can be faster. You can do it by following the route:
Settings> Biometric data and password-> Face recognition
Create a private space
The place where you can store files, photos and information that only you can access, because a Pin will be required to access it. Logically, you shouldn’t use the same as to access the phone by unlocking it.
Settings> Privacy> Private space
Share your wiFi key by Qr
Do you have a visit and want to quickly share the access data to your Network so that the visitor has access? It is very easy, with EMUI 9.0 you can do it by QR code so that your friend or family member identifies it with their camera and connects automatically.
Settings> Wi-Fi> Choose the Network you want to share
See battery percentage in notification center
The display of the battery percentage is quite useful as it reveals when you should charge your mobile instead of relying on a small icon.
Settings> Battery> Battery percentage
Change the text size
EMUI 9.0 cuenta entre sus novedades con la posibilidad de cambiar el tamaño de las pantallas de texto independientemente del tamaño de la fuente.
Settings> Display> Text size and display
Use two applications at the same time
A really useful thing about EMUI is being able to start different sessions in the same application thanks to the App-Twin function, compatible with apps like WhatsApp or Facebook. In this way you can have 2 WhatsApp on the same mobile. A really useful thing about EMUI is being able to start different sessions in the same application thanks to the App-Twin function, compatible with apps like WhatsApp or Facebook. In this way you can have 2 WhatsApp on the same mobile.
Settings> apps> Twin app
Block apps access to your information
By managing EMUI 9 permissions you can prevent apps from accessing certain sectors of your phone. To do this you must choose the app and review, one by one, the permissions to which it has access.
Settings> Applications> Permissions
Use the virtual navigation button
Since EMUI 8.0 there is the possibility to operate the device with a button that can be moved freely, but in EMUI 9.0 it improved significantly. It’s called NaviDot and it’s a button that can be moved freely on the screen. If i touch the button once you can go back or, if you hold it down, you can return to the home screen. To search in
Settings> System> System navigation> Navigation dock
Tips and tricks for mobile with EMUI 10
Optimize battery
Optimizing power consumption automatically will give you a series of tips to extend the battery life of your smartphone. Best of all, you only have to press a couple of buttons to configure it perfectly:
Settings> Battery> Optimize power consumption
Tara is optimization, you will be given a series of tips that, you can follow or not, so that the mobile lasts on longer.
Activate real dark mode
EMUI 10 already includes Dark Mode at the system level, this means that all Huawei applications and menus are perfectly adapted. Huawei indicates that instead of reversing the black and white color, laboratory tests have been carried out to select the most comfortable gradation and color contrast for the human eye.
Settings> Display and brightness> Dark mode
Limit mobile usage time
Do we spend too much time on the smartphone? You can control the time you or your children spend with your mobile phone with the new Digital Balance tools that you can find among the smartphone settings.
Remove ads
EMUI 10 has a new tool from Huawei to remove all traces of personalized ads on the mobile. This way you will stop seeing so much advertising in some system apps.
Settings> Privacy> Ads & Privacy> Disable custom ads
Say goodbye to the notch
You can hide the notch on your phone or, better said, touch it up optically. In the end, the status bar stretches down and everything on top turns black.
Settings> Display & Brightness> More display settings> Notch
Automatically turn the phone on and off
EMUI can automatically turn off the device at a certain time and then restart it at a certain time. EMUI 10 has the novelty that by doing so, the mobile alarm will not go off.
Settings> Accessibility> Scheduled on / off
Record screen with sound
Among the shortcuts of your Huawei mobile you will now find a screen recorder. It automatically collects all the audio captured by the microphone, so all you have to do is worry about turning up the volume and keeping quiet if you want to record the sound of mobile apps.
Accelerates animations
Activating the developer options (pressing repeatedly on the mobile’s compilation number, from Settings> About the phone, we activate the developer options. They give us access to functions to improve the performance of the smartphone with reducing time or animations so that it seems that the mobile works faster.
Settings> System and updates> Developer options> Scale animation window
HiVision and camera AI
When accessing the renewed EMUI 10 camera app for Huawei mobiles, you will find an icon to the left of the whole that enables the smart functions of the smartphone to interact with the world around us.
Among the options and functions that we can find are the identification of objects, the counting of calories, the possibility of finding articles in online stores, simultaneous translation and scanning of QR codes.
Dolby Atmos equalizer
Dolby Atmos compatible mobiles can activate different audio modes to enjoy movies or music but also allow you to configure an intelligent mode that establishes the best sound according to what we do with the mobile.
Similarly, EMUI 10 offers different preset equalizers for you to choose the sound that you like the most.
Settings> Sounds and vibration> Dolby Atmos
