Moto My UX, all the secrets and most useful functions of your Motorola smartphone

Moto My UX

Our journey continues to discover the various software customizations of smartphone manufacturers in the Android field. Today's protagonist Motorola that, with its customization Moto My UX similar to stock but still equipped with some peculiar features, has been able over the years to build a name by now established in the software landscape of the green robot. Let's go today to rediscover the peculiar and best options on board your Motorola smartphone.

⚠ Attention: Today's guide was created thanks to the use of a Motorola Moto G50 smartphone updated to the version of Android 11. Based to the version of Android on board your Motorola device, as well as based on the presence of some hardware peculiarities, some functions may or may not be present on your terminal, or be graphically different.

Index:

Display Change the refresh rate Change the style of your smartphone Change the color calibration Activate the dark theme Camera Use the sample color mode Activate portrait mode Activate night vision Battery Activate the adaptive battery mode Motorcycle customizations Set various intelligent gestures Leisure mode

Display

Even Motorola smartphones try to keep up with the competition, implementing many functions and customization options, aesthetic but also functional, as regards the panels.

Changing the refresh rate

For example, going to be able to change the refresh rate of your display (i.e. the frequency with which the contents are updated on the panel), being able to choose values ​​higher than canonical 60Hz. If your smartphone was therefore equipped with a panel with support for 90 or 120 Hz, what you have to do to activate this option is simply to follow these steps:

Open the Settings Select the Display item Click on Advanced Finally find the menu Screen refresh rate Thanks to this menu you can then choose whether to let the smartphone decide independently which speed to set, or choose you by blocking it directly on that that you prefer, according to your needs.

Changing the style of your smartphone

The display is the element with which the user interacts the most while using his smartphone . This is why knowing that you can count on various aesthetic customization options is a fundamental element for each of us, in order to make your device always pleasant and never banal.

Motorola knows this well and therefore puts it to us available a very pleasant tool (migrated from the stock customization of Android 11) as easy to use, in order to quickly change many graphical elements of the UI.

In order to enter this software area, you must always go to the Settings menu, always in the display area, but this time in the Styles sub-section. From here it will be possible with a simple tap to change the main colors of the notification curtain, as well as the system font and the shape of the icons.

Change the color calibration

After a purely aesthetic section , we return to a customization always linked to the display but clearly more based on the hardware functionality of the panel. In fact, if the color calibration chosen by Motorola is not to your liking, and you would like to change the contrast or the liveliness of the colors reproduced by your smartphone, know that you can do it without problems thanks to a dedicated software option.

In fact, through the color management in the display area you can choose between three distinct settings, able to cover all your viewing needs. So whether you are more fond of strong contrasts, as well as looking for a display that is less tiring for your eyes, here you will find the right customization option for your display.

Activating the dark theme

A now essential feature, and in fact placed in the foreground of the settings display area, is the one linked to the activation of the Dark mode (i.e. with dark shades instead of white by default), able to present a more youthful look in the various software areas (as well as in the enabled third-party applications) of your smartphone.

The option is not only selective based on the activation / deactivation by the user, but can also be left on automatic and set autonomously from the smartphone according to the time of day.

Camera

Hardware area increasingly important for users, Motorola also tries to make its photographic sector ico more and more professional and fun. If for the first aspect the final result is almost totally linked to the hardware chosen by the company, for the second theme you know that regardless of the optics on board your smartphone, you have many nice options available to take unique shots with yours. Motorola smartphone.

Using the sample color mode

A feature that I love and that very few other competing software in the Android field offer by default. It is the possibility, once a scene has been framed, to take a photograph with only one predominant color, with all the others reproduced in black and white. A special function that will allow you to give a touch of uniqueness and sympathy to your photos.

To activate this function you must:

Open the Camera app Click on the three horizontal lines in the lower area to the shutter button Choose the sample color mode Drag the pointer to the color you want to see kept in your photos

Activate portrait mode

Still in the same interface where you can activate the sample color mode, you can then choose to use Portrait mode.

As the name suggests, this is the ability to blur the background behind our framed subject for real artist photos. Thanks to the Motorola software you will not only be able to choose the level of blur during shooting, with the live preview then, but also in post production once you have taken the shot home.

Activate the vision night

Another mode that can be activated in the camera area, also a must-have of every self-respecting modern smartphone, is that linked to night vision. As the name suggests, it is the possibility of being able to obtain better shots in low light conditions, thanks to the realization of more shots at the same time of the same scene.

Battery

Software area where Motorola plays a little more conservatively than other competitors, but without forgetting to offer users options.

Activating adaptive battery mode

Function migrated directly from Google software stock, allows the smartphone, once you understand our usage and charging habits, to set performance levels automatically thanks to artificial intelligence. Function therefore suitable to be able to preserve more autonomy on board our smartphone, which can be activated and managed through these steps:

Open Settings Go to the Battery section Here you will find the item Adaptive Battery

Motorcycle Customizations

The real gem of Motorola smartphones is undoubtedly the Moto application. Through this application, installed by default on all the company's smartphones, you can not only find quick access to almost all the functions described above in this content (therefore with the ease of grouping and selection), but you can take full advantage of all the various extra options designed by the company for your smartphones.

Set various intelligent gestures

Whether you want to start the camera with a quick gesture, as well as activate the flashlight with a simple movement of the wrist, through this option you can choose and define many quick gestures to activate settings and applications in a very fast and intelligent way on your Motorola smartphone.

To define and set the behavior of this aspect on your device you will have to:

Open the Moto app Scroll to the Gestures section Activate the quick links that seem most useful for your use by tapping on them

M leisure mode

Not just intelligent gestures, however, in the customization motion application. In fact, there is an entire section dedicated to entertainment, in order to fully exploit the gaming potential of your Motorola smartphones.

You can then activate aesthetic options related to the world of gaming, with a dedicated sidebar that will help you with tools during your gaming sessions, as well as defining the behavior of the system sounds, with a dedicated equalizer.

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