HUAWEI FreeBuds 5i: Complete Guide to Controls, Gestures, and Customization

HUAWEI FreeBuds 5i: Touch Controls Overview

• 💡 Each earbud features a touch area on the back for various controls.
• 👆 By default, a double tap on either earbud plays or pauses music.
• ⏭️ A triple tap on either earbud allows you to skip to the next track.
• 🔊 Sliding your finger up or down on the touch area controls the volume.

Active Noise Cancellation and Modes

• 🎧 The press and hold gesture is used to cycle through ANC, transparency, and normal audio modes.
• 🔇 Initially, the earbuds are in normal mode; pressing and holding switches to ANC mode.
• 🗣️ Pressing and holding again switches to transparency mode, and a further press returns to normal mode.

Customizing Gestures via the HUAWEI App

• ⚙️ The HUAWEI app allows for extensive customization of earbud gestures.
• ▶️ For double press, options include play/pause, next/previous track, or activating a voice assistant (Siri, Google Assistant, Bixby).
• ⏪ The triple press can be configured to play the next or previous track, with different settings possible for each earbud.
• 🔇 For press and hold, you can select ANC mode, but you can also disable normal or transparency modes, requiring at least two modes to be active.
• 📞 The press and hold gesture on the right earbud can also be set to reject an incoming call.
• 🔊 Volume control is exclusively managed by the swipe gesture and cannot be reassigned.

Charging Case Button Functions

• 🔋 The charging case has a button for pairing and resets.
• 📶 Pressing and holding the case button until the LED blinks white initiates pairing mode for connecting to new devices.
• ♻️ Holding the button for at least 10 seconds until the LED blinks red performs a factory reset.