Preview notifications when screen sleeps

About Moto Display notifications

When your screen is off, battery-friendly notifications fade in and out, lighting only the pixels needed and showing notifications delivered since you last woke your screen. You can select which apps show notifications and limit content to control your privacy.

These notifications aren't displayed:

  • When the phone is in your pocket or purse
  • When the phone is lying face down
  • When you are on a call
  • When Do not disturb is on

Respond to Moto Display notifications

Check for notifications

If you haven’t seen activity for a while, to wake your phone, bump it.

View more and take action

From these notifications, you can:

  • Preview a notification. Touch & hold its icon.
  • Reply directly from a notification. Drag the notification icon to an action icon like , then enter and send a reply. (You can enable/disable this in Moto Display settings.)
  • Open the related app. Drag your finger up to the preview (then unlock if using a screen lock).

  • Dismiss a notification. Drag down to remove a notification.

  • Ignore for now. Drag your finger to the right or left edge of the screen to stop notifications from flashing until the next one is delivered.

Change Moto Display settings

  1. Open the Moto app.
  2. Touch Moto Display.
  3. Do any of the following:

    • To stop specific apps from showing these notifications, touch Block apps > and touch the app's name.
    • To allow text or voice replies from the Moto Display screen without unlocking the phone, check Quick Reply. To require unlocking to reply, uncheck it.

Stop Moto Display notifications

  1. Open the Moto app.
  2. Touch Moto Display.
  3. Turn Moto Display off .

To restart the notifications, turn Moto Display on .