New iOS 26 making me motion sick with all the animation and movement

christachamberlin wrote:

New iOS 26 update is making me dizzy and nauseous with all the movement and animations. Even when reduce motion and transparency is on. I can’t be on my phone for more than a few minutes without feeling motion sick. Texting is awful, so much movement and bouncing and is glitchy and slow. Going from app to app is awful with the transitions. Some of my app icons are fuzzy. Apple, will this be fixed? Please stop changing things. Nothing was wrong with the old iOS. Bring it back.

Something wrong with your screen, Texting has not changed.

Reduce motion kills many transitions, but select Prefer Cross Fade Transitions in the same settings to also alter it.

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carleen117 wrote:

I am so over all of the apple updates period! have been life long apple user but considering changing sides!

Look carefully before you leap. As already mentioned, we don't care what phone you choose. You should choose the device which best meets your needs. But you might want to visit the Android forums, where you'll see Android has rolled out Material Design 3, with many of the same animations and effects in Liquid Glass. There, you'll see Android users making the same claim that they want to "change sides."

If the animations are bothering you, turn them off, which you would have already known how to do if you followied the suggestions in this link which has been posted in this link --> https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250010041

LD150 wrote:

Reduce motion kills many transitions, but select Prefer Cross Fade Transitions in the same settings to also alter it.

"Prefer Cross Fade Transitions". Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't appear to be an available setting within iOS/iPadOS 26.x

LD150 wrote:

I assumed the OP had been in Settings/Accessibility/Motion to get to Reduce Motion.

(unless it is only available on my SE3.)

The equivalent screenshot taken from and iPhone 17 Pro...

Edit: My bad. Same screenshot with Reduce Motion selected:

carleen117 wrote:

I am so over all of the apple updates period! have been life long apple user but considering changing sides!

Instructions above will help. Maybe set your forum default sort order to "Oldest" in your user preferences to follow the thread as it was posted.

carleen117 wrote:

I am so over all of the apple updates period! have been life long apple user but considering changing sides!

You should always choose a device and platform that best meets your needs - be it Apple, Android, MS Windows or something else. At an individual level, none of the manufacturers will notice you come or go - or even care.

I assumed the OP had been in Settings/Accessibility/Motion to get to Reduce Motion.

(unless it is only available on my SE3.)

Try Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass > Tinted [Check]

Ah, that explains 👍

I am so over all of the apple updates period! have been life long apple user but considering changing sides!