Honor 20
Honor · catalog updated 2026-10-21
- Brand
- Honor
- Kind
- Android phone · released 2019-05 · last update Android 10
- Model codes
- YAL-L21, YAL-AL00, YAL-TL00
Ships with EMUI 9 (Android 9) with Google services; install the Magic UI 3.0 (Android 10) update first. No built-in gesture or key opens a chosen app on EMUI 10 / Magic UI 3: knuckle gestures (where present) only take screenshots, record the screen or split the screen, and double-pressing Volume down only takes a photo. YAL-AL00 and YAL-TL00 are the China models. YAL-L21 is also used by the Huawei nova 5T, so confirm the detected model. Release month is the London announcement; China sales began 2019-05-31.
Gestures on the Honor 20
No gesture specific to this model is known. We only list what the manufacturer or reliable sources document.
Plus what the app offers on every Android phone: In-app button, Widget, Quick Settings tile, Shake, Volume keys, Voice phrase. How to set those up
Recommended presets
- Shake ×3Sends a signal
Three sharp shakes within 2.5 s: hard to do by accident, easy to do without looking.
Shake ×3, 0.15–1 s apart · whole gesture within 2.5 s
- Widget ×2Sends a signal
Two taps on the home-screen widget within 3 s; a single accidental tap does nothing.
Widget ×2, 0.1–3 s apart · whole gesture within 3 s
Gestures are set up in the phone settings as shown, then combined into a trigger recipe in the app, where practice mode shows step by step whether a gesture would trigger.