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Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache. It's exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to read in the car.


How do I turn them off? Do I have to revert to 6?

iPhone 4

Posted on Sep 18, 2013 4:59 PM

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Sep 26, 2013 3:13 PM in response to Ensorceled

This happens to me idk what it is but after awhile I'm squinting my eyes my head hurts and can't see anything I ended up getting so sick from it it to bright the neon is horrifying I love the change but it could probably cause a brain aneurism a stroke, seizures or blindness I have to put on polarized sunglasses so my head won't hurt when looking at the screen

Sep 26, 2013 4:36 PM in response to Ensorceled

Good morning!
New Design iOS 7 just ****. Absolutely not read the font on the keyboard. Icons on the desktop just as bad read. Color schemes, as cheap Chinese phones. The overall feel of the look of iOS 7 - nasty color, poor design.
Buying a phone for $ 900 (in Russian), I bought not only the appearance and reliability, I have bought and convenience iOS!!!


Please return the ability to downgrade to iOS 6 or add another color and desktop themes!

Sep 26, 2013 4:47 PM in response to Ensorceled

Just another once-happy-iPhone-5 user chiming in with the same disappointment and nausea from the newest update. Unfortunately the "reduce motion" option really doesn't give relief to my weary/spinning head. Without trying to be overly dramatic, I can't stand looking at my phone any more...sad. It stinks but it seems the only solution is to try and find another smartphone that either doesn't have such unnecessary movement or at least lets you choose to have it or not. For the price one pays you'd think the user could have more control over the experience.

Sep 26, 2013 7:46 PM in response to Ensorceled

Just to be clear and this is only my personal feelings. Motion sickness is 100% real. I dont play first person video games due to it and have never had a problem with any computer, tablet or phone. I have a iPhone 5, iPad mini, and iMac. All with no problems until upgrading my iPhone 5 to iOS7, the next day I woke up super dizzy and nauseous. Luckily I was able to revert back to iOS6 just in time. To be clear: I love iOS7. I like the flat design, the new features and everything. Its literally just the zooming in and out when opening and closing apps. The colors are fine, the design is fine for me. Its just that one feature that sets off psychical sickness when using. I'm not "whining" or crying I'm simply asking Apple to allow either a way to turn off the zoom or some sort of option to "Enable Classic Annimations" which could animate like iOS6.


BTW: Another story about the problem: iOS 7 motion sickness is real. What’s Apple going to do about it?

Sep 26, 2013 8:49 PM in response to bb9193

"If the animations were sped up I think it would not only help the phone seem more responsive, but would also help with the motion sickness issues. At their current speed, its just slow enough for your eyes to track the movement which I think is what is causing all the naseau. Any faster and it would just zip by without your eyes trying to follow the icon movement. As has been noted, there were animations with iOS6, but they were much faster.


I'm no developer, but I would think from a programming standpoint it would be much easier to increase the speed of the animations already in place, rather than rewrite a new button to "disable animation" and work it in to all areas of the OS."


Could not agree more. Why do I have to disable all "eye candy" effects? Speeding them up will do the trick. Even zooming to a particular icon on the screen should not be a problem once speed/smoothness of animations are tweaked.


What makes me really wonder is how come a freaking richest company in the world did not test this????!!!!


Who are their QAs????


How come nothing like this happened when Steve was around.


I am forever grateful to Apple for changing our lives forever in the way we did not know was possible, but come on!!!!


Get your **** together Apple!


I'd rather switch to android and customize it to my liking :)

Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

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