How to fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones

fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones

If you are using one of these Huawei phones like the Mate 8, Mate S or Honor, Huawei P9, P9 lite, P9 plus, Huawei P20, Mate 10, Mate 10 lite, P30, Mate 20, Nova 3e, Mate 10 Pro, P30, P40 Pro or Mate 20 Pro and running Huawei’s factory UI called Emotion or Harmony OS. You will miss out on the notifications that should appear on your phone screen if there is any message or alert by the specific application. The following guide will help you fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones.

This issue might occur because of the power-saving features on Huawei’s EMUI Harmony OS. You probably wouldn’t be getting all the notifications you’re used to on other Android devices, such as WhatsApp messages, Facebook alerts, or any further push notifications.

These notifications include anything from Gmail and Outlook to text messages and even data-based messaging apps like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, Viber, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc.

If you run into this problem, we have a quick and easy fix. It will allow you to fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones. So all the missing notifications make it back to your home screen as soon as you receive any message or alert. The following guide covers the fix for this problem and explains why these notifications are missing.

Update 2024: If you are using EMUI 13 or the latest Huawei phones, you can use the MicroG method to receive push notifications on your Huawei phone. This guide also lets you access and receive notifications from Google Apps on a Huawei device.

Fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones:

The primary reason for missing notifications from commonly used apps is the default power profile is set only to keep a small list of apps and services running in the background. A battery-saving process that prevents the other applications from performing any activity on the phone unless they are running in the foreground.

Note: If you have a Huawei phone running on the latest EMUI of Android Oreo and Pie, use the following method.

To access this power profiles section and to enable push notifications on a Huawei phone, follow the steps below:
  • Go to the system settings. (which you can either find in the quick toggles portion of the notification shade by pulling down the status bar on the top part of the screen)
  • Scroll down to the Advanced Settings and head over to the Battery Manager.
  • Go to the Protected Apps selection. ( This is what you’re looking for here. This option will control what’s allowed to run when the screen is off and what isn’t.)

fix missing push notifications on Huawei smartphones

  • From here, you can pick which apps are allowed to run. Ensure your email and chat are included in the list of enabled apps.

EMUI will let you know which apps are “power-intensive” (That consume more battery power). So if those are your favourite apps and you want to receive notifications from that app, you should probably turn them on.

If you’d allow every app on the phone to run all the time in the background, feel free to check the All slider at the top. However, note that this will cause a significant battery drain compared to the default values.

Note: If your Huawei phone has issues with Google sync, the contacts, and Gmail are not synced to the cloud appropriately. Then see this guide to fix the problem.

Update (17th August 2018):

The above solution has proved to work for many Huawei smartphones, including Huawei Honor 7, Mate 8, and P9 lite. Suppose you are still missing notifications on Huawei. Then try the method below.

  • Download and install “Quick Sync Settings” from the Google Play Store on your Huawei Phone.
  • Go to Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Enable App-data Sync. Even when the app is closed, Whatsapp, Facebook, Hangout, and all other application’s push notifications will work.

Fix Missing Notifications on EMUI 8 or EMUI 9 (Android Oreo and Android Pie versions of EMUI)

Suppose your Huawei phone runs on the latest EMUI 9 or EMUI 8. Then you will find the settings to enable the background running of a specific app by following the steps below:

  1. On your Huawei phone. Goto Settings->Battery->Launch->[app].
  2. Each app will have a slider; you must disable it to manage the underlying setting manually.
  3. On your screen, you will see a prompt that says, “Manage manually.” In addition, it will have the following options:
    • Auto-launch
    • Secondary launch
    • Run in background

You will have to enable the Run in Background option for the apps that are not showing notifications or missing notifications when the phone is not in use.

Method 2 to Fix missing push notifications on Huawei P9:

If the above method doesn’t work for you, try the following method. One of our readers had a similar problem with his Huawei P9 lite. Fixed missing notification on Huawei P9 by performing the steps below:

Go to: Settings -> Apps -> WhatsApp -> Battery -> Keep running after the screen is off. Enable this, and you are good to go.

Also, make sure here that background data is enabled for the apps:
Settings -> Apps -> WhatsApp -> Data usage -> Background Data -> Enable.

Enjoy those relevant notifications again..!

Method 3 to Fix Missing Notifications on Huawei phones:

If you’re not receiving push notifications on your Huawei smartphone like P40 or P50, you can try the following steps :

  1. First, check the app notification settings: Go to Settings > Apps & notifications > App info, find the app that’s not sending notifications, and make sure that the app has permission to show notifications.
  2. Disable battery optimization: Go to Settings > Battery > More settings > Battery optimization. Find the app in question and select “Don’t optimize.”
  3. Check network connectivity: Ensure your device is connected to a strong and stable network, Wi-Fi or mobile data.
  4. Sometimes, a simple restart can fix the issue.
  5. Ensure the app is updated by checking for updates in the Google Play Store.
  6.  If the previous steps didn’t work, you could try uninstalling the app and reinstalling it from the Google Play Store.

If this guide does not work for you and you are still not getting the notifications, try changing the launcher to Nova. You can download it from the App Store.

If you have any questions regarding the guide above to fix missing push notifications on Huawei phones, please ask me in the comments. Also, if you are confused regarding any step above, we are here to sort it out for you.

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56 COMMENTS

  2. Clearly this not working. I have 2x P9 Lite phones, the settings is identical but still not receiving any messages except when the phone is being used / unlocked.

  5. I have a P9 lite and after suffering for along time found a working solution, notification works when enabling VPN apps like Opera Max, etc… so thats the only way to get notifications at the moment. In case it’s important i used to get notifications on Wifi my problem was with mobile networks. Hope this helps you guys.

  6. This didnt work for me… even tried the updated one… didnt really do it… im on the mate 8 and the only notifications i get are texts and snaps…

    At least its a small problem that just annoys me, before this phone i got all my stuff but now… nope

    • I’m having the same problem with my Huawei phone. It’s a P8 though..
      I already tried everything I guess and the funny thing is, that the issue just comes and goes. I can’t pinpoint a time where it doesn’t work or where it does work.

      BUT: I won’t install any apps to help the notifications going since I think this is an elementary aspect of a smartphone.
      I contacted Huawei (Germany) and I’ll hand the phone in.
      While I don’t think they will fix this (since it is a known problem for years I guess), I have to go that route to have a chance of refund…

  7. Hi.
    Tried all the above, no joy.

    Then discovered that there is a hidden default setting in the gmail app itself which was preventing notifications!

    Go into your settings in the app, and into your account, go to “inbox sound and vibrate” and check.the “notify for every message” option…!

    Hope this helps, it worked for me.

  9. Not working on P8 lite, whatsapp notifications do not show up on notification bar and the phone does not vibrate. The phone works perfectly for half the day then, notifications stop getting through, only thing that solves this is restarting the phone, but this only works temporarily, after a while it happens again

  12. Hi guys
    I have deleted my deezer account by acident on my P9, how can I get it back without going throug tedious of deleting and downloading it again. Is there a easier way???

  15. For the people who have this problem, I was have the same problem (P9 Lite)
    Go to: Settings -> Apps -> WhatsApp -> Battery -> Keep running after screen off
    Enable this, and you are good to go 🙂

    Also make sure here:
    Settings -> Apps -> WhatsApp -> Data usage -> Background Data
    Is enabled

  17. I was having trouble with not being notified of text messages on my new Huawei P8 Lite. Then I found a preinstalled app called “Phone Manager” (green icon) that helped me. In the app, go to “Notification Centre” and in there you can access notification settings for all your apps including messaging. It turned out that mine was set to restricted.

  18. I have P9 Lite and I tried all the solutions I saw on the Internet. I installed “Push Notification Tester” and when mobile data is being used I always get an error in “Register for Push Notifications”. However, when I use WiFi I don’t get such error. So the problem is related to push notifications when WiFi is off, but I just don’t know what else to try.

  19. download pm plus will apper icon in phone manager (auto lanch apps) and chek to keep apps auto lanch it workin wery realy 😀

  20. Hi guys so I’ve done everything listed here and more however I still struggled with getting my notifications on my lock screen. After many investigations and research lol I will tell you how I got mine to work. You can do the above as well however what you need to do is set your theme to magazine lock. This can be done by going to themes – me – customize and then apply magazine lock. After this, go to settings and go to screen lock and passwords, then enable “show detailed notification Info” (this means it will.show the message details on the lock screen) and also enable “notifications turn on screen”. This worked for me and I probably went on 10 different sites trying to make this work. Hope it helps.

    • Thank you Lee-Ann D you are the real MVP, I could not fix the problem, I felt hopeless, until I saw your comment, it fucking worked dude! thank you very much!.

    • Hi Lee-Ann, I changed to Magazine lock, on my P9, but I could not find these options: enable “show detailed notification Info” and also enable “notifications turn on screen”
      did you do it on a P9 or some other model?

    • Hi again Lee-Ann, I forgot to tell, that I get most notifications.. but not always.. and that is frustrating.. it is mostly from Snapchat that I miss notifications.. half of the time :-/

  24. Well this methods works, but only if you let apps open in background, once you clean the background, none of apps are sending notifications!

    Usually in every samsung or Iphone, even if you clean the background opened apps, you will still receive notifications, but in Huawei P9 when you close apps, and clean the background you won’t receive any notifications.

    Its perfect smartphone, with perfect futures but this notification thing got me irritated .

    I hope someone did found any solution about this notifications thing!

  25. I had this no notification issue, and finally figured it out, my mate 8 has the settings ->sound ->SYSTEM -> “Default notification tone” set to ‘None’, selected one of the tone options, and now it beeps when there is a message. Hope this helps.

  26. I’m using Honor 8. Same problem. Nothing seems to work. Whatsapp and fb messenger don’t come through when screen is closed for some time.

  27. Just found that on Mate 8, when you click the Messaging, in More->Settings ->’Ringtones and vibration’, you can switch the vibration which needs to work with the main ‘Settings’ ->Notifications & status bar -> Notifications management -> Messaging configuration.

    So if you like your Mate 8 vibrate on message receiving, both settings should have vibration on.

  28. Same problem on my Huawei mate 9. I tried every option but problem still there.
    When I uninstall whatsapp and reinstall it, for few days there is no problem, then again it come out of no where.

  30. Hi there! There’s another way to try on P9 lite. Go to “Settings” > “Advanced Settings” > “Battery Manager” > “Optimize” and let the process run. Once completed, scroll down and look for “Auto-sync is turned off”. Turn it on and the Whatsapp, FB Messenger etc. notifications should push through like normal! Good luck!

  31. Hi there! There’s another way to try on P9 lite. Go to “Settings” > “Advanced Settings” > “Battery Manager” > “Optimize” and let the process run. Once completed, scroll down and look for “Auto-sync is turned off”. Turn it on and the Whatsapp, FB Messenger etc. notifications should push through like normal! Good luck!

  32. After making all these changes on the Mate 9 and Honor 8, it still was not working. What I have found that is needed in addition to the other changes is:

    Settings –> Apps –> Settings –> Special Access –> Exempt from battery optimization –> Find your app. click it and set it to allow.

    • this helped me. I had managed to get my Viber and Messenger to push notifications doing all of the above – allowing background data, not closing the app when screen locked but my mail accounts still needed the special access tip. Now they are getting through. I guess it should work as long as I don’t close or restrict the background data, which is smth that I might do by accident 🙂

  33. P9 Plus with EMUI 5.0
    my phone work fine with the notifications. however, when I add a user, the user do not get twitter or snapchat notifications. I did everything, still no luck.

    any extra suggestion for added user (not main user)?

  34. Testedt on Huawei LUA-L01.
    This only works when the app is running in the background. The fix is that it works when the screen is locked, OK.
    But when you kill the apps, it simply doesn’t work!

    • Same here, and even at that it only works for a few minutes. Wish I would have found all this out before I got this phone…

  35. Hi new to Huawei Honor 6 my email app is showing mail but when I open it no messages showing . Please help !!

      • Hello Abjullah Akbar Shafi, what does “Boss” mean? Can I ask you a question?

        It is this – my Honor Note 8 on Nougat and EMUI 5 does not recognise Outlook’s app. I install the Outlook app and it works fine, but when I look at my accounts, it is not there. I wouldn’t care except that because EMUI can’t see it, it won’t sync the Huawei or any other dialer with the Outlook contacts.

        I’ve always used the Outlook app in Android because it keeps me synced with any changes I make in Outlook on my PC.

        Have you heard of this? Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

  36. What a mess. Try this. Try that. Sure. How about trying a different OS. I’m very close to that “solution”.
    Honor Note 8

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