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Whenever I use COMMAND+TAB on my M1 MacBook Air to jump from one app to another, the latest version of macOS Big Sur throws in a sliding effect that wastes my time and-- worse!-- makes me almost throw up from motion sickness.
Has anyone figured out how to defeat this motion-sickness-inducing, time-wasting "feature"?
Dialabrain, Thank you very much. I submitted the following to Apple:
Hi,
When I use COMMAND+TAB to go from one app to another, instead of jumping to the second app, I see this motion-sickness-inducing, time-wasting sliding effect. I HATE IT!!!!
In my design work, I use animation techniques. I frequently need to see if the positions of elements on one screen exactly match their positions on another screen. Your motion-sickness-inducing, time-wasting sliding effect makes this impossible to do. To do what I need to do, I have to make screen captures of both screens, layer them into PhotoShop, and click the visibility of the top layer on and off. What a waste of time!
To grasp the idiocy of this feature, imagine if it were even worse. Imagine instead of a quick, sickening slide, the effect were a 5-second venetian-blind effect. Users would migrate to PCs.
Jeffreythefrog,
You're a genius!
Yes, "Reduce motion" gets rid of the sickening slide. It's still not a jump. It's now a slow dissolve. But your solution helps enormously. I can stop throwing up!
Thank you ever so much!
have you tried going to SystemPreferences > Accessibility in the "Display" tab and put a checkmark in "Reduce motion"? does that stop it?
To add a little clarification here: you are not just switching to a different application, you are also switching to a different Space.
Spaces are "arranged" side by side.
Reducing motion was a great idea, but if you don't want any of this, you could simply not use different Spaces. If applications live in the same Space, there is no "transition"!
To get them all in the same Space, just open Mission Control and delete all Spaces but one.
(Note: this does not work for "fullscreen" applications, as each fullscreen application gets its own Space)
FWIW, it has nothing to do with M1's. Has the same behavior on Intel Macs.
You can let Apple know it causes your Dramamine bill to increase here…
Mine doesn't work any differently than it always has.
M1 Macs run macOS.
i needed to add a screenshot to previous reply.
you're welcome. i'm always happy to help. :)
Luis,
Fascinating! Thank you very much!
Even so, I am a full-screen kinda guy. (I use the MacBook Air screen, so it's a little small to have lots of screens open.)
How to defeat motion-sickness-inducing, time-wasting "feature" in new M1 IOS?
