[Huawei Mate 40 Pro Guides, News, & Discussion] bontabela73:
My Huawei Mate 40 Pro received the EMUI 13 update in early November 2023 and I thought I would write a review about my EMUI 13 experience after nearly 3 months. Before the update my phone was running on EMUI 12 (August 2023 security patch level, no EMUI 13 beta).

All in all, I quite like the new, Amdroid 12-based system.
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The UI seems to be faster and smoother (launching apps, fingerprint and face unlock).​

I found many of the new service widgets very handy.​

The battery life is more or less the same as before.​

Huawei’s native call recording app (version 11.0.0.109) is still working.​

I could not find any changes in the Camera app, the pictures are still sharp and look great (AI is turned off).​

Pairing Bluetooth devices seems quicker and smoother.​

With the new Turbo-charge turned on, the battery is charged a little faster but the phone does not get any hotter.​

After the first big update (the package was more than 6 GB in size), there was another update which installed the October 2023 security patches. A few days ago, the January 2024 update arrived too.

After the installation of the EMUI 13 update, I noticed that 1 app was removed. When I tried to re-install this app, the installation failed because the app was incompatible with the new version of the OS. Apart from that, all the other apps were running perfectly and smoothly.

I found two cases where the system seems to prefer the use of the pre-installed stock apps. These are the browser and the email apps. In case of the browser, I used Chrome and Brave on EMUI 12. On EMUI 12, it was possible to disable the Huawei Browser app, now it is not an option anymore. So, you may install a different browser but the default Huawei Browser will keep running in the background. This is why I decided to start using the pre-installed efault browser and I have been using it ever since. I do not much browse on my phone but for the little browsing I do, the Huawei Browser is perfect. Also, I found a very strange issue in case of Chrome and Brave. These two browsers are unable to play back the video content on some websites and an error message is displayed saying that a part of the file is missing or the file may be corrupted. Edge browser, however, did not produce this issue.

In case of the email app, I was using Outlook and Spark on EMUI 12. On EMUI 13, these two apps could be set up without a problem. However, after a short period of time, I noticed that these apps failed to display any notifications when there were new incoming emails. All this happened in spite of the fact that I used the same app launch settings as before. Setting these apps to ’Not allowed’ in the battery optimization settings did not resolve the issue either. The Spark Mail app displayed an error message when I tried to re-configure the notification settings. The message said that the notifications got disabled.

I reported the above-mentioned two issues (browser and email) to Huawei Support and they replied that they had forwarded my report to the developer team.

On the other hand, the stock email app works perfectly, the motifications are displayed properly, so I have been using the stock Email app ever since the update.

The HiSuite program offred an option to roll back the sofware to EMUI 12 but I am staying on EMUI 13.​