Huawei P30 series starts receiving stable HarmonyOS 4.0 software update

Huawei P30 series is now getting the stable HarmonyOS 4.0 update after a long beta journey. The Chinese tech giant is rolling out the new version in batches and it would take some time to cover all the eligible units in the native region.

According to the official inputs, Huawei P30 series users can identify the stable HarmonyOS 4.0 update with the 4.0.0.121 build number. While the same version has been available during the testing phase, Huawei has confirmed it to be an official build.

“Note: Version 4.0.0.121 is the official version. Since the unlimited upgrade has not been enabled before, the official version has not been shown to the outside world.” – wrote Huawei.

Eventually, the company opened the stable rollout on a wider range and it will soon reach your device. Till then, let’s explore the changelog and compatible models.

Adaptable Models:

• Huawei P30 (ELE-AL00)
• Huawei P30 (ELE-TL00)
• Huawei P30 Pro (VOG-AL00)
• Huawei P30 Pro (VOG-AL10)
• Huawei P30 Pro (VOG-TL00)

Note that the general consumers who have not participated in the beta testing phase must have the baseline version 3.0.0.168 to download the upgrade efficiently. You can check the complete changelog below.

HarmonyOS 4.0 Changelog

Personal theme:

Brand-new personalized themes, providing rich theme templates and stylized layout design. For example, the theme of the user of art supports a one-click cutout, and can freely shape the image of the “user” with the background of artistic texture. It also supports icon color selection and is easy to play with the personalized home screen.

Interactive theme:

Interesting mood theme, rich and vivid Emoji expression system combined with mood, creating exclusive mood wallpaper, the expression “Little Soybean” on the wallpaper has a soft pressure-sensitive visual dynamic effect, making the home screen and lock screen full of fun.

Panoramic weather theme, real-time perception of weather changes, vividly presenting the real world’s cloudy, sunny, rainy, and snowy on the screen, combined with gravity sensing, it will also vividly display the different visual effects of the weather under looking down, looking up, and looking up, bringing an immersive experience Interactive Experience.

Live window:

Immediately grasp the latest progress of the task, from turning off the screen, and locking the screen to unlocking and presenting it on time. It resides in the upper left corner of the home screen and hence, is intuitive and convenient.

Notification Center:

The notification messages clusters and partitions, sorts reasonably according to importance, and the notifications of the same application are aggregated into dynamic cards, folded, and presented, the information structure is more refreshing, and thus, the priority is clear at a glance.

Application Control Center:

The card-based design is more visible and convenient, proactively controls risky applications, restricts access to sensitive permissions, hides real user data, restricts the use of system capabilities, as well as creates a pure application operating environment.

Application Tracking Management:

The privacy center supports application tracking activities to be refined to specific applications, and you can turn off the tracking ability of specified applications.

Children’s Remote Guardian:

Through the family sharing function of the HUAWEI ID, you can view the location of multiple devices of your child, and pay attention to the safety of your child in real-time. Finely control the duration of device use, and support multiple parents to jointly protect children’s health and use the device.

Elderly Care:

The company has optimized the enlarged display effect and added the harassment interception setting function. Further, it supports the third-party application care mode to open the linkage and provide the elders with a simpler as well as safer computer environment.