How to turn off Screen Overlay Detected on any Motorola Device

Screen Overlay Detected Solutions for Motorola Device:

Hey Guys, Welcome to EasyWebFixes! In this article, we are going to discuss the Screen Overlay Detected solutions for Motorola Device or Any Moto Device such as Moto G3, Moto G4 Plus, Moto G4 Play, Moto X, Moto E 3 power, Moto G2 or any Moto Device. We already posted about General Screen Overlay Detected Solutions working for Android Devices, But as per our readers feedback we prepared this separate guide on How to fix Screen Overlay Detected issue on Motorola Device.

This guide will help you out to fix the Screen Overlay Detected issue on any Motorola Device. Basically, we have got three solutions which will surely fix the Screen Overlay issue on your Motorola Device. First apply Solution 1, which is working for almost 90% of the Motorola Devices. If Solution 1 didn’t work for you guys then you can apply Solution 2 and Solution 3 which will surely solve the screen overlay issue on your device. Do comment which solution worked for you guys, it will help your friends to fix this issue easily.

Screen Overlay Detected Solutions for Motorola Device:

Solution 1:

How to fix Screen Overlay Detected on Motorola

You must know that Screen overlay Detected popup appears when you install any new application. Hence in this solution, we will turn off screen overlay off all apps including system apps while you install any new application to your device.

Follow this setting to turn off screen overlay all Android apps on your Motorola device:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Scroll down to Apps.
  3. Tap on Three Dots on top right corner of your mobile screen.
  4. Click on Configure Apps and then select Draw Over Other Apps
  5. Again Click on Three Dots and select Show System Apps.
  6. Now the whole list of Screen Overlay Apps on your Motorola Device will appear.
  7. Now turn off Screen Overlay of all apps one by one on your Motorola Device.

This screen overlay setting will turn off screen overlay of all apps, after which you can install any new application on your Moto or you will be able to allow permissions of all apps on your Moto.

This worked for 90% of Moto Device, if this worked for you then do let us know in comment section below. If this isn’t working for you guys or yet Screen Overlay Detected popups appear again and again then you can apply Solution 2.

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Solution 2:

Find Out Victim Screen Overlay App

As per our observation Screen Overlay Detected in many Moto devices is caused by some selected applications, so it’s better to find out which app is exactly causing this issue on your Moto Device. Further, you can uninstall or temporarily force stop app causing Screen Overlay Detected pop-ups on your Moto device. Earlier we recommended to Reset App Preferences to solve Screen Overlay Detected issue on their device but now we recommend to go for some this solution, that is to find out which major app is causing this screen overlay issue on your device. Directly you can’t point out which app was causing this issue, you need to apply some trick as below.

  • First of all, uninstall or temporarily force stop all security and booster applications from your device. Security and Booster App list consist of DU Apps, Battery Doctor, Booster, Cleaner, 360 Security and many more. They can be identified by their name itself.
  • Temporarily turn off messenger chat head.
  • Uninstall or temporarily force stop ES File Explorer.
  • Temporarily force stop all apps which can appear on top of other apps such as messenger chat head, Booster Rocket (On Home Screen), Screen Recorder, Night Mode and many such apps can appear on top of other apps.

Above measures of uninstalling some applications must resolve screen overlay detected on your Motorola device but yet if you are unable to fix this on your device then you can go for the third solution.

Above measures of uninstalling some applications must resolve screen overlay detected on your Samsung device but yet if you are unable to fix this on your device then you can go for the third solution.

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Solution 3:

Solutions Submitted by Our Readers

If above two solutions doesn;t worked for you guys then do read solutions submitted by our readers. As different Android devices have different configuration hence different solutions are working for different devices. Hence we started collecting different solutions to Screen Overlay Detected error from our reader, which worked for them perfectly.

Read Solutions Submitted by Our Readers

So these were possible solutions for Screen Overlay Detected which must solve the Screen Overlay Detected error on all Motorola Devices. Now if yet any solution didn’t work for you guys then do let us know in comment section below, we will help you to fix the issue.

9 thoughts on “How to turn off Screen Overlay Detected on any Motorola Device”

  1. Thanks, uninstalling ES File Explorer worked for me.
    Screen Overlay error was too frustrating for me, finally its gone.

  2. Rahul you need to apply solution as per my instructions.
    First apply solution 1, it will turn off screen overlay of all apps, if this doesn’t work for you then you need to find out major victim app which is causing screen overlay issue on your Motorola device as solution 2, if this also didn’t work then read some solutions which worked for our users, Hope this will work for you Rahul.

  3. Moto G3. Uninstalling, removing ES File Explorer worked for me being unable to open WhatsApp. Thank you

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