About the Moto app

The Moto app groups together features and settings that help you customise the way your phone looks, sounds and behaves. Several of these features are available only on Motorola phones.

In the Moto app, tap to access these features and settings:

Personalise
Change your phone's layout, fonts, icon shapes, themes and wallpapers.
Gestures
Control your phone with simple motions, like using a karate chop motion to turn on the torch.
Moto Secure
Manage network security, control app permissions and create a secret folder for your most sensitive apps.
Tips
Learn more about your phone with a guided tour and demos of favourite features.
Display
Control what is shown on your lock screen. Keep your screen on when you're looking at it (Attentive display).
Play
Adjust display and sound features for immersive, refined and uninterrupted entertainment experiences. (Gametime and Dolby Atmos)

Turn Gestures on/off

Perform everyday tasks with quick motions.

You turn each gesture on/off independently.

Tap ‘Learn more’ links to learn how to use and turn gestures on/off.

Double-tap the back of your phone for shortcuts (open a selected app or perform action). Learn more.
Swipe in from the edge of your phone for a pop-up menu of your favourite apps. Learn more.
Twist your wrist twice quickly to open the Camera from any screen. Learn more.
Make a karate chop motion to turn the torch on or off. Learn more.
Use three fingers to take a screenshot. Learn more.
Unlock by lifting your phone and looking at it. Learn more.
Set your phone face down on a surface to start Do Not Disturb mode. Learn more.
Pick up your ringing phone to silence it and switch to vibrate. Learn more.
Swipe back and forth to use split screen. Learn more.

Get help with other features and settings

For information about other features or settings on your phone:

  • To search Help, at the top of this screen, tap and type keywords.
  • To browse the entire Help menu (table of contents), at the top of this help screen, tap your phone's model.