However, there are some solutions that may come to your rescue.

HiSuite:

This is the ultimate tool to resolve your phone’s software update issue. Before we begin, let me share a recent experience and how HiSuite helped me to fetch new firmware.

Following the installation of the February 2023 software update. I’ve searched for the latest software update on my Huawei P40 Pro global version but it was still stuck on the previous patch.

The phone continues to show that there is no new update via phone’s updates settings. Then I plugged my device into the PC and installed HiSuite. Right after, the software collected March 2023 upgrade on the screen.

How?

HiSuite takes your phone’s device id and fetches the firmware directly from the Huawei server. It can download and install the update right away.

HiSuite instructions:

First, you need to get the latest HiSuite application from the official website (link) for your PC. You can also operate via Mac. Note that the installation procedure is simple but you need to follow the device connection steps carefully.

Connect Device:

Plug your Huawei phone into your PC via the original Huawei USB cable. Once connected, assign HDB access to move forward.

Open settings > search for “HDB” and open “Allow connection via HDB”. Follow the instructions on your PC after enabling HDB.

Once completed, the phone will start installing HiSuite mobile version. Complete the installation by accepting the terms and provide app permissions.

Now you need to enter your connection keycode from your phone to HiSuite (PC). That’s it, your phone is now connected to HiSuite app.

Check for update.

Locate the “Update” button on the bottom side of the options and tap. The software will check for new firmware and pop it up on your screen.

Click on the “Update” button to download and install the new version.

Change ID:

The secondary option in our list of solutions includes changing the region of your Huawei ID. This may resolve the issue of not receiving a new software update for your Huawei phone.

To change your Huawei ID region, open AppGallery, visit the “Me” section, and Settings. Now visit the Country/Region option on the bottom side and select a different country.

There you have it, if these things don’t work for you, visit your nearest Huawei Store and schedule a device checkup.

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The new app safety features bring you a security check for all of installing and running an app on your EMUI 12 smartphone. It’s enabled by default and scans each app using AppGallery.

To keep your smartphone safe, the feature makes a stronghold on your phone’s app installation section. You will receive a security notification, whenever you download and install an app from external sources, such as a browser.

There are various checks and actions this invisible app guard will trigger during app installations including the followings:

• If the app has passed the Huawei AppGallery security inspection, you’ll need to enter the lock screen password to install it.
• If the app has not passed the Huawei AppGallery security inspection and may feature unknown risks, you’ll need to enter the lock screen password to install it, after acknowledging the risks.
• If an app is determined to be virus-laden or risky, it means that the app features unacceptable risks. If you would still like to install the app, the app will be added to the App security center by default. When you use the app, certain risky behaviors will be restricted.
• If a high-risk app is detected, App Guard will prevent the app from being.
• If you wish to strengthen the level of protection, you can enable Enhanced protection. Once enabled, you’ll only be able to install apps on your phone that have passed the Huawei AppGallery security inspection.
• Apps that have been inspected Apps that have not been inspected by Huawei AppGallery are prevented from being installed.
• If you installed an app that had not been inspected before enabling Enhanced protection, your phone will inspect the app after Enhanced protection is enabled.
• If the app is determined to have a virus or is risky (fraud, malicious behavior, privacy issues, and more), it will not be able to run, and you will be reminded to uninstall it.

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App Drawer:

App drawer allows you to put all of your apps on a different screen while putting all of your frequently used applications on the home screen. This helps you to manage your phone’s app in a separate space for a clean interaction.

The app drawer is consist of the app search bar and the most used app suggestions. There’s also a letter-wise sorting of apps followed by an “All” apps section.

How to enable App drawer on EMUI 12:

First, open Settings, then Home screen & wallpaper and Home screen style, and tap on “Drawer” to show all apps in the drawer.

In drawer mode, you can swipe up on the home screen to display the App Drawer. Tap and hold the app you want to add until your EMUI device vibrates, and drag the app to the position your want it to be on the home screen.

Reposition your apps:

Tap and hold an app icon as your device vibrates, and select Remove from the on-screen options. This will eliminate the app icon from the screen but it won’t be uninstalled.

Disable:

To disable the navigation drawer, follow Settings > Home screen & wallpaper > Home screen style, and select “Standard” to show all of your apps on the home screen.

App Drawer is an amazing functionality and its use could simplify the way we interact with Huawei smartphones. It also helps us to organize apps and sort them out in a better way.

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Note – The installation procedure is at the bottom.

Before we begin to install Google apps on your Huawei phone via GBox. You need to understand important things about how this article will navigate:

1. What is Gbox
2. Requirements
3. How it works
4. Supported Apps
5. Precautions
6. Tips
7. Tested on
8. Installation instructions
9. Our take

What is GBox:

According to the official website, Gbox was founded in 2018 in Singapore. Born from VIRTUAL CUBE PTE. LTD. It’s described as a multi-platform instrumented application focused on Android.

This app comes with a pre-built, out-of-the-box suite of Google app services. In that case, you won’t need to install GMS services plugins or any other kind of APK files on your phone separately. To be mentioned, there’s no version rollback required as well.

Requirements:

1. HMS powered phone
2. Gbox app
3. Internet

How:

According to the app, Gbox has virtualized into a random Android device. It creates a virtual Google apps space in your Huawei phone parallel to the EMUI apps.

Also, the app installed remains within Gbox and once you uninstall Gbox, all of these Google apps vanish as well.

Furthermore, every time you launch an app, it’s solely powered by the Gbox in virtual mode. Interestingly, the app retains your last usage and could be resumed from the taskbar.

Supported Apps:

Gbox support all of the Google apps and you can install them on your Huawei smartphone but only a few (including the third party) will work well. These are

1. Google app
2. Gmail
3. Google maps
4. Youtube
5. Facebook
6. Instagram
7. WhatsApp
8. Twitter
9. Line
10. Uber

Still, there are a bunch of other apps that are supported with Gbox but we’ve not tested them.

Games: You can access all of the apps on Play Store but other than those mentioned above won’t work or crash Gbox itself. So, we suggest you get them via APKMirror, AppGallery, or any other third-party website.

Privacy and Precautions:

Gbox promises to protect your privacy and not to collect data. But there are a few things that we suggest you do if you want to use Gbox or any similar application on your Huawei phone.

1. Use a Gmail account to log in that you don’t use to share any personal, private, or official email use cases. Create a new one if you want to.
2. Gbox for permission to access sensitive data such as storage and files. These are required to install a new app.
3. Gbox will take a part of your phone’s battery life but we have not found it draining or consuming too much of cells.
4. The instructions to install Gbox are easy but we suggest you read them carefully.

Tips:

Here are the tips that need to apply for the best use cases:

1. Install apps one by one
2. Wait until an app installation finishes
3. Create an app shortcut, once it is installed from the Play Store
4. Do not open apps from Gbox
5. Launch an app from the home screen icon
6. Open an app, and let it sync the data
7. Repeat the 6th step at least four to five times
8. We won’t suggest you keep your expectation high on all GMS apps.

You can force stop Gbox from running in the background via the “Force stop” option from Apps settings.

Tested on:

We testing Gbox running on EMUI 10, EMUI 11, EMUI 12, EMUI 13. The solution is running on all of the devices including Mate 50 Pro.

Instructions:

Let’s see how to install Google apps using Gbox on your Huawei phone.

Download Gbox:

Visit the Gboxlab website and download the latest version on your device.

Note: Download only the stable version.

Install Google Apps:

These are divided into two parts, the first will show you to set up Gbox, and the second half will show to install Google apps.

1st – Navigate to Gbox app on your phone and install it.

2nd – Open the Gbox app

3rd – Agree app’s terms and disable battery optimizations (will be prompted automatically).

4th – Tap on the “Check” button in the top right corner.

5th – Enable – “Require permission” and “Battery optimization whitelist”. Once enabled, press back.

Install Google Apps

6th – Tap on any “Recommended Apps” and allow required permissions.

7th – Sign in to your Google account

8th – Tap Install to install that app.

9th – Once installed, “Add” app icon to the home screen.

10th – You can download other apps in the same way.

How to update, create icons and delete the app:

You can tap and hold any app and tap on Upgrade to update the app or create an app icon.

Change region:

You can also take on Settings and change app suggestions according to region.

Our take:

Using Gbox is simple but we suggest you follow our precaution notes. It surely works in limits but it surely installs some apps. Yet we surely want to hear from you tag us on Twitter and carefully follow the instructions to use it.

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Here you can see four step guide on how to enable face mask unlock on Huawei Mate 50 Pro.

First, you need to open Settings, and from there tap on Biometrics & password.

Second – Press the ‘Face Recognition’ option to enter, the lock screen password and enter your facial id.

Note: You will have to set up the face id if you haven’t done it already.

Third, In the face recognition settings, you will find the option of Recognition with a face mask.

Tap the slider to enable the Face Mask recognition feature with face unlock.

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There are three options to chose from, whether you chose to not show it, or show it next to battery icon or show it inside the icon. Below you can check, how to enable percentage feature and customize it on EMUI 12.

Open the Settings menu, navigate for the Battery features. Now, head towards ‘Battery percentage’ and tap on the following options:

• Do not show
• Next to battery icon
• Inside battery icon

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The Chinese manufacturer has published a post on his official Weibo channel. Celebrating the Chinese Mid-Autumn festive, Huawei come up with the reflection of clicking full moon pictures with the dynamic Mate 50 using the moon mode.

At the same time, the company thought of bringing this mesmerizing experience to its users. Hence, it shared soothing pictures of the full moon scenario on the Weibo platform. Further, it mentioned how even you can have such amazing clicks.

So let’s jump on these quick tips and understand the new and enhanced grade of photography!

Huawei Moon Mode

Before moving on to the tips, let’s understand this attractive and intelligent feature. Yes, intelligent, as it smartly recognizes more than 1300 scenarios around you. Besides, it works on improvising the details of the image so that you can take better photos.

Since the moon mode mechanism is based on AI machine learning technologies, the camera of the device identifies the surroundings as well as the subject in a better way. As a result, it flashes more focus and exposure to amplify the details. For instance, shapes, colors, highlights, shadows, and more.

The Moon Mode particularly enriches the close-up takes without requiring any additional equipment. And now this feature has taken a more advanced avatar with the Mate 50 series.

Few easy steps for taking Pro-Like pictures of the moon

Firstly, prepare yourself and wipe the lens with alcohol, cotton, or glass cloth. Ahead, use the bracket to fix the phone and prevent the handshake. Now open the camera of your device and turn on the AI photographer feature.

As soon as you will point the camera at the moon, the phone will recognize the subject and will enable the moon mode. You can extend the focal length until you grab a clear and bright image of the phone.

Aside, you can also use the professional mode by modifying the focal length (can extend up to 50 times), sensitivity, shutter, and other functionalities.

As for the shooting skills, you can take the help of Voice-activated photography, or Screen Composition. These tools will help in preventing the phone from shaking. However, you need to feed the identifying words in Settings before using them.

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Huawei provides special touch screen events including pinch, double-tap, scroll, long press, and flinch. By applying them you will easily return to the previous screen, back-to-home screen recent tasks, and more with a simple touch respectively. The aim of these gestures is to maximize on-screen reachability.

What are Huawei system navigation gestures:

The system navigation let you operate the phone with gestures rather than buttons, this builds an immersive experience to handle your smartphone. The gesture navigation patterns proliferate on handheld devices.

If you are unaware of such a feature in your Huawei phone, then here can check some easy guides to use system navigation gestures.

Below you can check the guide to navigate system gestures:

• Step 1: Open the Settings app on your phone

• Step 2: Click on System & updates

• Step 3: Search for System navigation
• Step 4: Make sure that Gestures is selected

After applying the System navigation gesture on your phone, here the question arises that how it works:

• For the return to the previous screen: Swipe in from the left or right edges to return to the previous screen
• For back to the home screen: Swipe up from the bottom to go to the home screen
• Recent tasks: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and hold to view recent task
• Close an app: When viewing recent tasks, swipe on an app preview to close the app
• Switch between apps: Alide across the bottom edge of the screen to switch between apps.
  • Before using this gesture, touch Settings on the System navigation screen, and ensure that Slide across the bottom to switch app is enables
  • Swipe across the bottom of the screen in an arc to switch between apps

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On the flip side, Google boasts you access to check whether your Android device is Play Protect certified, to ensure the security and device compatibility to run apps, and also to maintain your device consistency and security Google.

In other words, if your device has a Google Play Protect certificate, then it shows only the licensed apps for Google with passed Android compatibility testing. Notably, the certified smartphone is compatible with Google apps like the Google Play Store, Gmail and more.

If you’re using an unauthenticated device, Google will not verify that your device’s app is fair. In addition, devices are vulnerable to security risks because they cannot receive system or app updates. This also means that your data will not be backed up and synced with Google services.

On the other hand, if you are using the latest Huawei smartphone then you will not find the Google Play Services. This is due to the partnership breakup between Huawei and Google, which prohibits Huawei from using GMS. For Huawei users, the Chinese tech giant launches its own Mobile Services HMS in replacement of GMS but it’s still under development.

Here you can check the guide to see if your Android device is Play Protect Certified or not:

• Launch the Google Play Store app

• Now click on the profile icon

• Go to settings
• Under About scroll down to find Play Protect certification

If you find ‘Device is Uncertified’ then contact your device manufacturer immediately and ask for a fully tested and Play Protect certified device. Google Play Protect certificate helps your device secure it from all threats.

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• Open the Setting app
• Then Battey or Optimiser
• Now you can view
  • View power consumption details and learn about power consumption and usage ranking of apps
  • Touch the time slot on the battery level chart to learn about the power consumption of the battery level chart.
  • Touch the app to see battery usage details, or touch Kill to close the app.
    Some pre-installed apps cannot be closed

How to enable Power Saving Mode:

Alongside checking the battery consumption Huawei is also offers you a power-saving mode, it generally used when you then low battery life it helps to run your phone on low battery for more and more.

You can enable the power-saving mode when the battery level of your phone is low but using the following mentioned steps:

• Go to settings
• Then Battery or Optimiser
• Now enable power-saving mode

How to enable performance Mode:

Performance mode changes the power settings to provide ultimate performance. In particular, using a graphics-intensive app will drain your battery faster. You can try this mode to try something new with your Huawei phone via below mentioned steps:

• Go to settings
• Then the Battery or optimizer
• Now enable the performance mode

A meter time icon will appear in your display of the status bar, notably this feature is limited to some Huawei devices. Do check and if available then must try to operate this on your Huawei phone.

How to enable Smart Charge:

Smart Charge learns charging habits intelligently and manages the charging process. This feature reduces the time the device is fully charged, reduces battery wear levels, and extends battery life. You can apply this feature to manage the activity.

Especially if you charge your phone overnight, this feature will stop charging when the battery capacity reaches a particular level over time. Your smartphone will continue to charge until your device is fully charged before you wake up in the morning.

• Open the setting app
• Battery option
• Then more battery setting
• Now enable the Smart Battery Capacity feature

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