Motorola Moto G54 review – One of the best smartphones for less than 200 Euros

Motorola has equipped its midrange smartphone with Android 13, adding its inhouse MyUX user interface on top. There is only a handful of additional software apps such as the inhouse apps Moto, Moto Secure, and Family Space. Although a few third-party apps such as TikTok or Marketguru are also included, they can all be deinstalled. After the initial setup, 237 GB of the nominal 256 GB of storage are still available.

The Moto Secure app allows you to adjust your privacy settings, hide some apps and files in a secure file folder, and recognize Phishing attempts, among other things. With Family Space, users can setup a separate secure Start screen for their children, where only some selected apps are available.

The Moto app allows you to configure the Motorola-typical UI gestures that facilitate operation. For example, you get the following presets: If you make a hacking gesture with the smartphone twice, the flashlight is activated. A quick turning the phone twice will activate the camera. 

According to the manufacturer, the Moto G54 is supposed to receive Android security patches until September 2026, which is three years after its market introduction in September of 2023. New security patches are supposed to be available every two months. However, at the time of our test, the manufacturer is slightly behind schedule, since the security patches are still at the level of August 1 at the end of October, so they aren’t quite current, compared to Motorola’s own specifications.

Motorola is a little more hesitant with the Android OS upgrades than with the Android security updates. Although the smartphone is supposed to receive Android 14, the manufacturer’s website doesn’t provide any information whether there will be any additional OS upgrades in the future such as to Android 15. But usually, you can expect two OS updates with Motorola smartphones.