By default, all your apps are shown on your home screen on the Huawei Mate 9. But it's easy to enable a more traditional Android app drawer.
Gone are the days when using a phone with Huawei's EMUI software meant having to choose between and iOS-like home screen setup — where all your apps are shown on the home screen — and using a custom launcher. The latest EMUI 5 software, included on the Huawei Mate 9, makes it easy to keep your home screen relatively uncluttered, leaving less-used apps in the app drawer.
Enabling this option is easy — in fact, it's a top-level setting in EMUI 5.
- Drag down your Notification shade and hit the cog icon to go to Settings.
- Tap Home Screen Style.
- Select Drawer.
You'll then be kicked back to your home screen, complete with your handy new app drawer. (Note that you'll need to re-arrange things in the new launcher view, as app and widget placements won't carry over.)
That's it. Enjoy your new app drawer!
Reader comments
How to enable the app drawer on the Huawei Mate 9
Will this work on the p9?
It should when it's updated to EMUI 5 (Nougat).
Alex, any news on UK availability? Can't find any info.
Same here, dying to upgrade from my deceased Note 4 to it. But can't find no UK release data
Note 4 here as well 😀
Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.
Wish Xiaomi had the same feature. I guess a launcher solves the problem anyway.
Good tip, but I always install Nova Launcher first thing on a new phone. This gives you an app drawer immediately on all Chinese phones - all of which cover up the app drawer in an effort to copy Apple.
Gonna order mine today hopefully. So excited!
Been using this for over a month now in UK, brilliant phone, came from Nexus 6p much better than 6p. Got mine from alza.uk
Do you have any regrets on screen resolution or audio quality from headphone jack?
Hope this makes its way to the MediaPad M3. I tried 4.0 for a few days before giving up and returning to Nova.
I hope
Would be nice to have this option in MIUI (Xiaomi phones).