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A major change in Apple’s iOS 7 update was its sleek, minimal aesthetic; however, the amount of motion now found within is anything but minimal.
The net result: “It feels to me like the whole screen is moving, and it generates a sort of motion sickness. I feel dizzy and can feel the very beginnings of nausea kicking in.”
It’s not as bad as full on motion sickness for me but I do find the animations to be annoying eye candy I wish I could toggle off.
You can toggle them off
Settings, general, accessability, reduce motion
Also helps to make the iPad mini much more snappy on ios7
Yeah, I am surprised he did not know about this.
No, you can’t. “Reduce” is not “off”.
I’m surprised you think reduce = off.
Have you tried “reduce”?
sure turns the parallax off. Not sure how much more “off” you could get. Clearly he’s just talking about the parallax.
“Reduce motion” is not enough. It disables the parallax effect, but does only little on the real culprits: Opening and closing animations for apps. I’ve tried it, not enough.
I noticed this effect the moment I installed iOS 7 on my iPad mini. Apps or folders “exploding” in my direction make me uneasy at least. It is disconcerting for me.
The effect is much stronger on the iPad mini than on the iPhone (I updated it to see if I guessed right) – and this may be the reason this effect on some people got by unnoticed before (nearly all reviews were with the iPhone, the iPad was widly ignored in the months since WWDC).
I’m definitely not going to update my iPad 4. I couldn’t stand it, because the effect would be even stronger than on the iPad mini …
Some of you folks must’ve had real fun with lenticular greeting cards.
I can see the parallax being a problem for some people and has been pointed out, there is a solution for that.
I found on my iPad that the animations were at first troublesome also. But now that I have been using it for a few days, I find myself not minding them nearly as much. While, yes, they may be partly eye candy, they do serve a purpose of guiding your eye and brain, just like the shrink to the dock on OS X.
Reading all the great reviews compared to the initial cries of failure after WWDC, I am suspecting that this is more a matter of our brains being so used to the old functionality that it will take a bit to re-wire ourselves for the new way.
Since I am already adjusting I am willing to give it a bit longer before I think about complaining or asking for options to turn everything off.
As has also been pointed out, “reduce motion” is NOT a solution.
Just because you personally don’t mind it doesn’t mean it’s not a very real issue for some people.
parallax not the issue. it’s vertigo/nausea from the animations. I have it too. never get seasick or carsick, but Half Life 2 did cause the same thing. it’s pretty extreme and there is no way to turn it off. not sure what I will do with the phone.
He said “solution for that.” He then went on to discuss his feelings on the other aspects that were not solved by reduce motion. You misread his entire post.
I won’t take the role of a victim blaming him/herself for being abused. Why have I to “re-wire” my brain to be able to use something like an iDevice comfortably? This is not what iPhone and iPad were meant to be in the first place: Devices I have to get used too.
If those affected (who often seem to be otherwise quite “normal” people) have to train themselfs to use the device without greater discomfort – then there’s something wrong with the device, not with those users!
Apple should be interested in getting to the root of these reactions. For me it looks like they moved into some sort of “uncanny valey of on-screen animations”. They can have no interest in alienating a portion of their existing customers and potential new customers that try their devices in the stores before bying (or not, because they feel uncomfortable).
Everyone affected should report to Apple so that they can get a broader picture and dig deeper into it.
“Just because you personally don’t mind it doesn’t mean it’s not a very real issue for some people.”
It’s a real issue for people…I can validate that!
If iOS7’s “aggressive” animations, transitions have triggered vertigo, dizziness, nausea, etc. in users WITHOUT vestibular or balance disorders…..
Imagine what’s happens to a person WITH a vestibular(balance) disability, that’s exposed to, as Mashable states… “unnecessary movement”!
It’s a real issue affecting REAL people. It’s not unreasonable to ask for additional accessibility settings to address this issue. Thanks for this post!
Wow, I was not aware that it had this reaction on certain people. I guess Apple needs to have a way to tone it down as a setting for those affected.
The laggy zoom in and out when you launch/close apps.
I’ve been having this problem too for the last week. Headaches and nausea. Reduce motion doesn’t solve the problem. I’m going to be forced to not use my iOS devices except in very small doses until there is some sort of fix.
I also feel dizzy. It unfortionate, I was a hue apple fan. Because of the dizziness I’m selling all of my devices…..soo bumbed
I don’t know where to type this, but here seems a good a place as any.
I find that accessing the homescreen from the multitasking screen to be less jarring in comparison to merely clicking the home button, (mainly on the iPhone, since multitasking is a small “zoom out” motion, while on the iPad Mini, it’s a weird zoom out and shift right, so that’s jarring in a different way).
Hopefully this will provide some relief to people experiencing motion sensitivity.
“Double click, swipe, tap” might be more complicated than just clicking the home button and blink slowly, but extra steps for the extra sensitive.
I’m not surprised that you assumed that I meant “off”