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Motorola has been pushing AI pretty hard on its smartphones over the past couple of years, and some of its newer phones, like the Razr Ultra, even come with a dedicated AI key. However, if you don’t use Moto AI very often, then that button can end up feeling a bit wasted. Thankfully, an unofficial app called MotoKey Plus lets you remap the AI key to something else entirely, making the button much more useful.
While the app has been around for a bit, the latest update added support for three different gestures on the key, making it even easier to customize (via Android Authority). You can set one action for a single press, another for a double press, and a third for a long press.
You can connect it to your flashlight, open screenshots, launch Google Lens or Gemini, and even bring up media controls. And if you want, you can even have the button pull down the notification shade, open your phone’s Quick Settings or open any app of your choosing. Motorola does allow some minor customization of the AI key by default on devices like the Razr Ultra (2026), but it’s nowhere near the options MotoKey Plus offers. With this app, you can use the AI key more like the iPhone’s Action Button, which has also continued to get powerful upgrades with iOS 27’s release in 2026.
You’ll have to sideload MotoKey Plus for now
The biggest thing to keep in mind before you try MotoKey Plus is that the app isn’t available on the Google Play Store at the time of this article’s writing. That means you’ll need to sideload it if you want to try it. The developer says they plan to bring it to Google Play, and in late September even said a Play Store release could happen in the next month or so. However, no official updates have dropped just yet.
If you’ve never sideloaded an app before, it isn’t hard, but you’ll want to be careful where you get the APK. MotoKey Plus also isn’t open source right now, though the developer says that will change in the future. Additionally, Google has already started rolling out new rules for sideloading Android apps from unverified developers in a handful of countries, with a global rollout planned for 2027, so sideloading could change drastically in the coming months or even weeks, depending on where you are.
Several people are reported to be getting the app to work on their Motorola smartphones, though how well it works may vary from device to device as the app is still in active development. You’ll need to download the APK from the developer’s official GitHub, and there is even a Telegram group chat for those who want to stay up to date.
