Our Huawei and Honor smartphones incorporate a pedometer (step counter) into their newer smartphones. Today we are going to see how we can activate and visualize this function or, on the contrary, deactivate it completely.
The smartphone has become another tool to know how and how much we move in our day to day. With the number of steps we can measure the activity we have carried out and have a more or less detailed follow-up.
Make it appear or disappear from the lock screen
By default, the steps are displayed on the lock screen of our Huawei and Honor smartphones. If we want to remove it from the middle we will have to follow the following steps:
- Let's go to the "Settings" application of the smartphone.
- Click on the "Main screen and wallpaper" option.
- In the last option we have "Show step count".
- If we have this function activated, it will show us, on the lock screen, the steps we have taken during the day and it will eliminate the number if we deactivate it.
This is a small patch so as not to visualize it, but if what we want is to root out the fact that the smartphone acts as a pedometer we will have to be more expeditious. We explain it in the next section.
How to root out the step counter
As we mentioned in the previous paragraph, we are going to see the steps we have to follow so that the smartphone stops collecting this information.
- We located the Health application among our installed applications.
- We left our finger pressed on it.
- With a brief vibration, the smartphone will notify us that a small menu has been displayed. In it we see the Uninstall button.
- Click on "Uninstall", accept the warning and the application will be removed from our device forever (or until we want it to measure our steps again).
In previous versions (a few years ago) of EMUI, the user was allowed to disable the built-in pedometer. With the latest updates it seems that this option has been removed so the only way to completely disable the steps is to remove the Huawei Health app.
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