How to Use Motion Snooze and Global Snooze
Learn how to use the Motion Snooze and Global Snooze features in the Ring app to disable Motion Alerts.
Motion Snooze
The Motion Snooze feature lets you silence your notifications temporarily without editing the device settings.
Additionally, the Ring app allows you to disable Motion Alerts from a Ring device for a pre-set length of time.
You can avoid excessive notifications when there is a lot of activity around your home. Cameras will continue to record and videos will appear in your Event History if you are subscribed to a Ring Protect plan.
Motion Snooze is not available when Motion Alerts are turned off in the Ring app. The screen will look like the image below when Motion Alerts are off.
To activate Motion Snooze:
- Open theRing app.
- Tap themenu(≡)on the top left side of yourDashboard.
- TapDevicesand select your device.
- TapMotion Snooze.
- Move theMotion Snooze sliderto the desired duration.
- TapStart Snooze.
This feature will only affect notifications coming from the Ring app, and not from an Alexa-enabled device.
To disable Motion Snooze:
- Open yourRing app.
- Tap themenu(≡)on the top left of theDashboard.
- TapDevicesand select your device.
- TapMotion Snooze.
- TapDisable Motion Snooze.
This feature will only affect notifications coming from the Ring app, and not from an Alexa-enabled device.
To change the duration of the Motion Snooze:
- Open theRing app.
- Tap themenu(≡)on the top left of theDashboard.
- TapDevicesand select your device.
- TapMotion Snooze.
- Move theMotion Snooze sliderto the desired duration.
- TapSnooze Motion.
This feature will only affect notifications coming from the Ring app, and not from an Alexa-enabled device.
Global Snooze
Global Snooze is a feature that allows you to temporarily disable Motion Alerts for all camera-based devices at a location with one action.
Note: You'll only have this feature if you have more than one camera or doorbell at a single location. The Global Snooze icon is a crescent moon that will appear at the top right of the screen.
When Global Snooze is active, the crescent moon icon will appear on the devices that are snoozed. Global Snooze can be activated for 30 minutes, one hour, two hours, three hours or four hours.
To activate Global Snooze:
- Open yourRing app.
- On the main dashboard, tap the crescent moon icon on the top right.
- Before Global Snooze is activated, the crescent moon icon on the top right will be white.
- Move theMotion Snoozeslider to desired time for snoozing all of your cameras.
- TapSnooze Motion.
Once Global Snooze is activated, all of your devices will display a crescent moon icon on the bottom right side of the camera preview images on the main dashboard. The crescent moon on the top right will turn blue.
To disable Global Snooze:
- Open theRing app.
- On the main dashboard, tap the crescent moon icon on the top right.
- IfGlobal Snoozeis activated, the crescent moon icon will be solid blue.
- Move theMotion Snoozeslider to desired duration you want to snooze all of your cameras.
- TapDisable Motion Snooze.
- WhenGlobal Snoozeis disabled, you will no longer see the crescent moon icon on the camera previews.