Motorola is the latest Android OEM to dive into the AI space with its own collection of features in its Moto AI suite. While these aren't the first AI features launched by Motorola, these features under the Moto AI suite aim to help users navigate their lives by improving photo quality, remembering/summarizing content on their devices, generating images, and more.
Motorola phones have access to some of the best Google AI features, like Circle to Search and Ask Photos, but Moto AI is the company's own take on some popular features specific to Motorola phones. The features are actually built using Google's AI, including Google Cloud Vertex AI, Gemini, and Imagen, thanks to a multi-year partnership between the two companies.
Moto AI: Availability
While some Moto AI features are widely available across various flagship Motorola phones, select core capabilities of the Moto AI suite are only available on certain devices. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, the following devices:
- Motorola Razr 2026/Razr 70 series
- Motorola Razr 2025/Razr 60 series
- Motorola Razr 2024/Razr 50 series
- Motorola Edge 70 series
- Motorola Edge 60 series
- Motorola Edge 50 series
- Motorola Signature
Of course, we can expect support for the Moto AI suite to expand to more flagship devices as they become available.
Moto AI features are only available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
Moto AI: Features
Similar to Galaxy AI, Moto AI is the backbone of several features on Motorola phones. These can be accessed throughout the OS but are easily found in the Moto AI app, which acts as a hub for all the features and settings.
Moto AI also includes features that enhance image capture on select devices. It powers the Photo Enhancement Engine on devices like the Razr series, which improves photos by preserving RAW image data when enhancing them after they're taken.
Moto AI features
- Ask or search: Fast access to advanced global search on your phone. Can search for information online or search your phone for settings using natural language.
- Catch Me Up: Moto AI will summarize missed calls and messages from messaging apps like Google Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more so that you can quickly understand the gist of what's happening in conversations you may have missed. Also available on the Moto Watch.
- Remember This: Save screenshots, notes, and images to your Memory with AI-generated summaries and object recognition technology so that you can recall them later.
- Pay Attention: Records conversations, then transcribes and summarizes them. These are saved to the Moto Notes app.
- Next Move: Uses contextual information based on what's on your screen to help you decide what to do next.
- Playlist Studio: Describe the kind of playlist you want, and Moto AI will generate one for you. Only works with Amazon Music for now.
- AI wallpaper (Moto Watch): Lets you create a wallpaper by describing what you want. It will then be sent from your phone to the watch.
- Image Studio: acts as a somewhat separate hub, with a focus on generating images using various tools:
- Create an Image (formerly Magic Canvas): Let users create images using a text-to-image generator that can be used as wallpapers.
- Sketch to Image: Draw something, and Moto AI will generate the image in different styles.
- Style Sync: Generates a pattern that matches the color and style of images you take or upload.
- Create a Sticker: Make fun stickers using a text-to-image generator, then save them to your gallery.
- Create an Avatar: Take or upload a photo of yourself, and Moto AI will generate a cartoon avatar.
- Imaging: Motorola uses Moto AI to enhance photos or provide new ways to capture images:
- Action Shot: Detects a moving subject and adjusts shutter speed to ensure a clear, blur-free image.
- Group Shot: Similar to Best Take on Google Pixel phones, Group Shot will take multiple images of a group of people and blend them together to ensure everyone's eyes are open.
- Signature Style: Processes images with a "unique Moto color style." Users can also customize color styles for different subjects, such as food, portraits, and landscapes.
- Frame Match: Lets you create a frame guide. Then, when you hand the phone to someone to capture a photo of you, they'll be prompted to align their shot with the guide overlay.
Moto AI: Settings
Launch gestures: There are various ways to evoke Moto AI on a Motorola phone. Some of the methods are exclusive to newer phones like the Razr Ultra 2025, while some are available across various devices
- AI Key (Razr Ultra 2025/2026):
- Press & hold: You can use this to pull up the Moto AI search bar. You can also adjust the press & hold duration.
- Double press: Gives you access to more specific Moto AI features, including Catch Me Up and Pay Attention.
- Look & Talk (Razr Ultra 2025/2026): When in Tent or Stand mode, simply look at the Razr Ultra, and it will begin listening to you.
- Power Key: If your phone doesn't have an AI Key, you can use this option to turn on Moto AI by utilizing the press & hold gesture.
- Quick Launch: Lets you double-tap the back of the phone to launch Moto AI. You can also adjust the tap strength to make it easier to detect or more difficult if you want to avoid accidental launches.
- Approach (Motorola Razr series): When the phone is in Stand or Tent mode, approach the device by briefly flashing your hand in front of the display to launch Moto AI from the cover screen.
Actions: This is where you can adjust settings for certain Moto AI features. For Catch Me Up, this lets you select which supported apps you want Moto AI to summarize for you and toggle the option to clear summarized notifications.
For Playlist Studio, you can select which music provider you want to use when creating playlists. For now, the only music streaming service that's supported is Amazon Music.
History: View a history of your conversations with Moto AI. You can also delete them here.
Personalization and Memory: Allows Moto AI to tailor responses to you based on what it learns from you over time. Here, you can manage your Memory or things Moto AI has recorded for you. Items from Remember This will be placed in Memory so Moto AI can recall them later. You can remove individual memories or delete all of them at once. Memories can be synced to your Google account.
Language and Voice: Select your preferred language and voice. There are two available voices for Moto AI, one that is more female and one that is more male.
Show on Lock Screen: Toggle on to allow Moto AI on the lock screen.
Local Models: Lets you manage models and set download settings for local, on-device AI models.
Moto AI: Models & integrations
Motorola integrates various AI models from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Perplexity into Moto AI so that it can use whichever model is best suited for the task. Tasks will either be handled by the AI model, or users can specify that they want to use a certain model when asking a question.
Google AI and Gemini: Google's AI helps power Motorola's AI features, such as Catch Me Up, Pay Attention, and Remember This. While some data is processed on-device, Moto AI may also send some data to Google's AI Vertex to generate summaries based on audio recordings.
Gemini is also preinstalled on the latest Motorola devices, with the company highlighting features like Google Photos integration and Gemini Live for seamless conversations.
Perplexity: The Razr 2025 series is the first smartphone to integrate Perplexity. Perplexity powers features such as Next Move, which helps users figure out what to do next based on contextual information. The company also teases the ability to perform actions on a user's behalf. Users can tap "Explore with Perplexity" when asking questions to get more insight directly from Perplexity.
The Perplexity app is also preinstalled on the latest Motorola devices, so users can go directly to the app for more.
Meta and Llama: Llama uses on-device capabilities to help power Catch Me Up. This way, users can find summaries of notifications involving Meta apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
Microsoft and Copilot: Users can tell Meta AI to "Ask Copilot" when asking questions. Moto AI also gives users direct access to Copilot Vision, allowing them to use the cameras and speak to Copilot in a natural way as it responds to what they're showing it.
Moto AI: Privacy
As far as data and privacy, Motorola states that your personal data is saved on-device, but some of it may be shared with the cloud and "into an LLM," noting that the data is encrypted. Here, it will be processed to help generate summaries and descriptions, which will be sent back to the device where it is stored locally, privately, and securely.
Motorola ensures that the data is not saved in the cloud after it's processed and that it "will only retain your personal information as long as necessary to achieve proper performance of the product or service or other compelling purposes, and to securely delete personal data when those purposes of use have been satisfied."
More specifically, in regard to integrated AI models such as Microsoft Co-Pilot, Llama, and Perplexity, Motorola provided Android Central with the following statement regarding data and privacy:
"Moto ai keeps user data private on the device. While most advanced features are cloud-based, the connection to the cloud is always encrypted, and personal information is always stored directly on the device. Motorola does not share user data with 3rd party AI assistant apps.
For Perplexity specifically, Motorola [gives] the user the ability to 'explore/research' more with Perplexity and surface to them recommended queries based on what's on their screen, but no data is shared with Perplexity until users are within the Perplexity app. For more detail on user data collected within the app, please see Perplexity’s privacy policy."
You can visit Motorola's device Privacy Statement for more details.
Moto AI: Large Action Model
In addition to the Moto AI features currently available, Motorola has also shown off its concept for what it's calling a "Large Action Model" or LAM. As demonstrated at Lenovo Tech World 2024, the LAM learns a user's behavior and preferences so that it can perform actions with very little input from the user.
For example, when prompted to order a coffee, the LAM will automatically locate a nearby coffee shop and go through the motions of ordering your preferred drink. The only input from the user will be to confirm the order. You can also prompt the LAM by telling it where you want to go, and it will order an Uber.
As of 2026, the LAM is still just a proof of concept for the company, and Motorola has not disclosed if or when it will launch on devices. As the new suite of Moto AI features, we can probably expect this to land in beta before becoming more widely available.
In the meantime, Gemini Screen automation can perform similar actions with little user input, although it is not yet available on Motorola devices at the time of writing.
Motorola Qira: The evolution of Moto AI
Motorola announced Qira in early 2026, teasing it as essentially the next stage of the company's AI ambitions. This combines efforts across Lenovo products into a unified AI experience that works seamlessly among these devices.
It aims to be context aware, so that as you move across Lenovo and Motorola devices, Qira will move with you, letting you continue where you left off.
Qira will come with a revamped UI on smartphones with a bar that lets user chat, talk live, catch up on conversations, record, and more with the tap of a button. It will also suggest actions for you, turning Moto AI into a more proactive and adaptive assistant.
