What are Image Notifications?

Image notifications send you a snapshot image of what’s happening in front of your Blink camera, so you can easily see activity without opening the Blink app. With a quick look at your notification, you can know immediately if you need to open up Live View to take a closer look, or wait and review your video later. Learn more about how to receive notifications of motion detection.

In order to view image notifications, your Early Notification camera setting must be disabled. Learn more about Early Notifications.

Note: Image notifications are not available for the Blink Mini 2, Outdoor 4, Wired Floodlight, and Video Doorbell. Since the Video Doorbell has Early Notification enabled by default, image notifications cannot be viewed.

If you are using Local Storage to save clips, image notifications will not be displayed, as thumbnails are not generated. Learn more about using Local Storage.

iOS

When you have motion alerts enabled on your iOS device, you will see a motion detection notification on your home screen. 

Tapping a notification on your home screen, will take you to the clip list in the Blink app with that saved clip. When you "long press" on a notification, you will see a larger snapshot of your detected motion. Image notifications also display when you are within the Blink app.

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Android

When you have motion alerts enabled on your Android device, you will see a motion detection notification on your home screen. Swipe down on the screen from the top to bottom to see the notification list. 

Next, tap on the down arrow to view a snapshot of your detected motion. You can also view multiple snapshots by expanding additional items in your list.

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