Android 17 is rolling out to over 50 Motorola phones: Here’s the full list and all the features - Android Police
Over 50 Motorola phones will get Android 17. You can now stack widgets, combining multiple widgets into a single block on your home screen. Instead of sending multiple notifications, an app can now continuously update a single live snippet in your status bar or notifications.
Android 17 is rolling out to Motorola phones this month and it brings with it a slew of new features.
The full list is up on Motorola’s India site, and it brings stackable widgets, more organized notifications that highlight personal messages, improved cross-platform file-sharing, and scam detection for messages.
Over 50 Motorola phones will get Android 17. The list was revealed on Lenovo’s Spanish blog.
Motorola has a reputation for poor software update support. That’s often reflected in even getting a straight answer about what phones will receive an update, so the list is welcome to many.
Motorola’s flagships are included, with some people reporting that the Motorola Edge 2025 has already gotten Android 17.
You can now stack widgets, combining multiple widgets into a single block on your home screen.
Instead of taking up several grids on your home screen for your weather, calendar, battery and music player, stack them and swipe the stack to switch between them.
You can now use an icon theme that coordinates with your overall theme. Touch & hold a blank space on your Home screen, then tap Home settings > Themed icons.
Hide quick setting labels when using Classic style
If you're using Classic style for quick settings, you can now hide labels on the settings tiles. Hiding them frees up screen space if you already recognise the icons.
Live updates let apps to display real-time, ongoing data. Instead of sending multiple notifications, an app can now continuously update a single live snippet in your status bar or notifications. You can turn these on or off.
You can now peek at your notifications for a one-sentence summary of a lengthy group chat or a rapid-fire thread from messaging apps (like WhatsApp or Messages).
Your phone now organises your notifications to separate your personal messages from clutter and automated alerts. It uses machine learning to screen lower-priority notifications and bundles them into separate, quiet folders under the Silent section of your notifications.
Enhanced HDR brightness control
When you view HDR content – like an Ultra HDR photo in Google Photos, a HDR video on YouTube or an HDR feed on Instagram – your phone's display automatically sets brightness to its highest limits to make the highlights pop.
You can now limit this brightness to a more comfortable level by adjusting the intensity of Enhanced HDR brightness or turning it off to force HDR photos and videos to play at a normal brightness level.
There are two new ways to share in Settings > Connected devices:
Android system upgrades add more than new features. Using the latest Android update provides other improvements such as: