How to Snooze motion notifications

You can pause motion notifications on your mobile device using Snooze. Your notifications will automatically resume once your selected time period ends.

Your camera continues recording during Snooze if you have: 

With a Blink Subscription Plan, you can use Custom Snooze to pause notifications anywhere from 1 minute to 24 hours. To learn how, see the "Custom Snooze" section below.

  1. On your camera's thumbnail, tap More (...). 
  2. Tap the Snooze button and then select how long you want the Snooze to last.
    • Select 30 minutes (default) or up to 4 hours. If you want to cancel, tap the back arrow.
  3. Once you've chosen your snooze length, tap Start Snooze. 
    • If you'd like the Snooze to apply to all of the cameras in your system, check the box next to Apply to all devices.
    • When your camera's notifications are being Snoozed, the Snooze icon  will appear to the left of Motion Detection .

To end an active Snooze early, tap the solid blue button. A confirmation message displays the amount of Snooze time remaining.

  • The Snooze icon will switch back to gray.
  • Tap the Apply to all devices checkbox to end Snooze for all cameras on the system.

Snoozing motion alerts from a notification

You can quickly snooze motion alerts directly from a motion notification:

  1. To snooze motion alerts:
    iOS - Press and hold the Blink notification sent to your mobile device.
    Android - Tap the Blink notification sent to your mobile device.
  2. In the quick action menu that appears, select either Snooze: 1 hour or Snooze: 4 hours.

For additional snooze durations, follow the steps in "Turning on snooze in the Blink app" above.

Alexa Snooze Notifications

Alexa will continue announcing events even if you have turned on Snooze notifications for your camera or system. To turn off Alexa Motion Announcements, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Alexa app.
  2. Go to Settings > Device Settings.
  3. Select the device you want to stop the announcements for.
  4. Under ANNOUNCEMENTS, turn off Motion Announcements

If you want Alexa to resume announcing motion notifications, you must turn on Motion Announcements in the Alexa app.

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Setting custom snooze notifications

When you have a Blink Subscription Plan or trial, you can set a Custom time frame for snoozing your motion notifications and enter any time increment from 1 minute and up to 24 hours. Learn more about Blink Subscription Plans.

  1. Tap More (...) on the Home Screen and then Notification Snooze.
  2. Tap Custom.
  3. Select the amount of time to Snooze your notifications and then tap Start Snooze. Choose any time from 1 minute to 24 hours to pause notifications. Your set custom Snooze time will then appear as a notification on the Home screen.

To start receiving notifications again, tap the solid Snooze icon. It turns gray when off.


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