Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

I just upgraded my wife's iphone and within 30 minutes she came to me looking kind of sick asking me to turn off the animations. I thought they were annoying and pointless but they didn't make me sick. There should be a toggle to turn it off or speed it up enough to be instentaneous and not disturbing.

All this pairing down of the UI to get rid of useless skeumorphism (yay!) and they add useless animations. :-(

The whole upgrade is lacking and to me very childlike with all the animations. I think Apple did a "Vista" on this one. I for one am reconsidering phones for business and personal. My wife is also upset I updated the OS on her older 4S. Apple needs to acknowledge it floped on this one and just move forward and fix it. I miss Steve I am sure he would never have given this the "green" light.

The operating system is killing me. It hurts my eyes. The colors are horible. I feel like a 5 year old put this thing together. I need his to be a tool I can use for my work, not a second rate fisher price toy. I can't go back to iOS6, even when I install previous back ups before I installed iOS7. I'm ready to turn this phone in and go to Gallexy. i need a reliable, easy to use tool. I can't red my texts, note pad or understand most of my screens. Why did this happen? Was this not tested? Is this some kind of a joke? Please fix this Apple, please!!!

I have some very serious misgivings about iOS 7 and who in the world gave the go ahead to release this update without subjecting it to stringent testing needs a very serious talking to. I regretfully updated my 4G/64MB iPAD 3 to iOS 7 the other night and have done nothing but profusely scream explietives at it and the total ineptitude of testing undertaken on this software upgrade.

I have been in the Software Testing industry more years then I care to state here but am in total disbelief that on attempting to key in my 4 digit password to the new pin entry screen that it suffered keying lag/latency on a monumental scale. It now takes 5 minutes exactly, to very slowly and very carefully put 1 digit at a time in until it registers, otherwise it tells me I've keyed in the wrong passwordl! I would never have let such a fundamental flaw go to market ever... Once I am in, the new screen layout appear is brighter without adjusting my brightness level and hence, I would suggest that this would drain the battery life quicker, something I will test for sure to see if it still lives up to it's original battery life on the former operating system.

Then we come to the keyboard, again typing a simple 2 sentence status update to my facebook, where I crucified this operating system and warned all my Apple FB friends not to upgrade, it took to me 20 minutes to write the 2 sentences and some very serious keying lag was experienced. I had to count how many times I hit the backspace button to ensure I went far enough back to correct the keying that I did not make but were caused by latency issues with this new operating system and the keyboard itself registering my key strokes.

Then we go to a favourite online shoping site of mine, where the original flick scroll functionality failed miserably. The old operating system used to recognise a simple slide flick anywhere on a page as a request to scroll up or down and now it loads the detailed picture if I happen not to scroll gently with my finger in the empty space page real estate of the said page. I have never swaoe so much at a system in my life, for not performaing as expected and seriously rendering the user experience as an EPIC FAIL!

All I can say is I am glad I did not update my iPhone 5, thank the Lord but will be heading to my nearest Apple Store tomorrow to get my iPAD set back to the properly tested and user friendly iOS 6.3.1!!!!!

Apple, you seriously need to question how your iOS 7 softwareupdate was Unit, System, System Integration and User Acceptance tested and if I were you, I'd fire the lot of them and hire me to run your testing team because this just shows that you either have very poor quality gates in your SDLC or you rushed this system out without proper and thorough testing. I would recommend you run a lengthy and sringent internal pilot with the next operting system because this may be device set up specific but judging by how many people have complained on this forum it seems that's not the case!!!!!

Huffington Post got it too. You and I both made it on there with part of our posts being highlighted. I really hope that means Apple is going to realize how annoying this issue is and fix their phone that at this point is unusuable for so many of it's own customers 😟

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/26/ios-7-design-motion-sickness_n_3995898. html

The neon is what's bothering and giving headaches and hurting squinting eyes I feel like barfing the white is probably to bright the color combinations is what really doing is it really needed to use a neon green and a white this bright apple you guys need to do something

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RJV Bertin wrote:

What IS surprising is that Apple neither foresaw it nor identified the issue from beta tester feedback (or worse, failed to take that seriously). I can understand an industrial designer like Ive more used to working on physical objects could be unaware of the effects visual displays can have on people, especially if they move, but surely he must have had computer graphics experts in his team...

My guess is that most of the Beta users were developers spending most of their time working on their own app, instead of opening and closing all different apps, like an everyday regular iPhone user.

And even if 5-10% of the Beta users noted the issue, maybe Apple was not ready to implement a design change based on such a small percentage of affected users, since they put all that time and effort into creating such a "cool" animation.

I'm optimistic that we'll get this change implemented, since they already have a "Reduce Motion" option within the Accessibility menu. Maybe they were already aware and planning to add this option in the coming update?

And the description states: "Reduce the motion of the user interface, including the parallax effect of icons and alerts." So sounds like there's additional features coming, doesn't it?

realpdm wrote:

All this pairing down of the UI to get rid of useless skeumorphism (yay!) and they add useless animations. :-(

Totally agree. The irony of designing the new IOS 7 by removing shadows, bevelling, and 3D reaslistic icons -- only to add in a 3D animation where we're flying into and out of the home screen!

I thought Jony Ive said it's all about simplicty and removing unnecessary elements?

Oh, so now Eliza Dushku is getting sick too, that should help move matters!

Just to repeat myself:

- visual motion can induce motion sickness

- APPARENT )perceived, illusionary) visual motion (e.g. http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/looserotsnakes2.jpg or https://www.google.fr/search?q=rotating+snakes&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa= X&ei=YzBFUoGPMaGg0QXz9YCADA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1026&bih=664&dpr=1) can induce motion sickness

- making certain head movements while watching something that can make you think you're moving can induce motion sickness (coriolis effect; https://www.google.fr/search?q=coriolis+effect+motion+sickness&es_sm=93&source=l nms&sa=X&ei=QzFFUry7Jcii0QXT0YHgCw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAA&biw=1026&bih=664&dpr=1)

- even without apparent motion, image content can be stressful/obnoxious enough to provoke migraines in susceptible people. There is a neurological link between migraine and motion sickness (not yet well understood AFAIK), and of course migraine symptomes can include nausea. As to the image content in question, think things like the rotating snakes image linked to above: "aggressive" colours and colour contrasts in sufficient amounts. On computer screens one can add the moiré effects ("instability") caused by interference between image detail and the display (pixel) raster. The simple act of increasing display resolution to a point where the display raster is finer than the theoretical resolution of human vision (as measured by foveal photoreceptor density, for instance) does NOT mean that said interference can be disregarded. An inaudible high frequency sound can create perceptible interference ("beats") in audible sound, and the same can happen in vision ... and we have somehting called hyperacuity allowing us to detect things that are theoretically too small to be seen.

In short, I don't think one can explain the symptoms people are having to a single feature of iOS7. It's a combination of things, most likely quite personal (for some it's mostly the colours, for some the zooming, for some the parallax, etc), but all leading to a common set of symptoms that most researchers think are a way the brain has of telling us something is amiss with our sensory perception or the way we process that information.

In this case it's really comparable to a novel interface that generates almost instant and very powerful RSI (another of those medical conditions that took a while to be taken seriously).

As to quality control/testing that allowed this to get through ... I fear it's more likely it was pushed through, maybe even for as incredible reason that a British aristocrat with a design degree and reputation cannot be wrong ... even (or especially?) if he deviates so humongously from his usual pure and self-effacing designs. It's beyond understanding to me that there is no "graphite" theme to chose from, like there has always been in OS X, for adult users having outgrown their taste for colour candy.

Oh, and to the person who thought that it could be easier to implement a duration/speedcontrol on the animation effect rather than a switch to turn them off: I don't think so. For one thing, setting the duration to zero is one way to turn them off, but if they're implemented as a (device-specific) fixed series of "slides" it'd be harder to give (fine) control over the duration rather than just skip everything all together.

In case this hasn't been posted here before, this article in the New York Times was published on 9/23 and is reference to motion sickness in general:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/rethinking-motion-sickness/

"Anecdotal reports suggest that Google Glass and Apple’s latest software update, iOS7, can induce motion sickness."

“There has been relatively little research on nausea, vomiting and motion sickness in the modern era. Most of the research is 30 or 50 years old.”

A link to some of his studies:

http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/50/2/322

NYTimes wrote:

“There has been relatively little research on nausea, vomiting and motion sickness in the modern era. Most of the research is 30 or 50 years old.”

That's simply not true. A lot of that older research is still perfectly relevant, and of high enough impact to dominate overly simple literature searches, but research continues because of the continued importance, lack of true understanding and continuous discovery of new things that provoke kinetoses (the "official" term for motion sickness).

One of the first things I do every morning is to turn off the Airplane Mode (which I always turn on before going to sleep.)

Since iOS7 this has become a kind of horror experience which makes me feel sick every time!

As Apple always wants to make everything the best possible user experience, I don't quite understand that there isn't a way to switch these needless flying animations off. Sadly, after 6 years off a happy iPhone experience I'm seriously thinking about getting some other phone now... 😟

Bad bad Apple...!

I have enabled the reduce motion button on my iPad mini but it may as well not be there as it hasn't done anything. I am suffering from labyrinthitis and vertigo, but was improving...after the iOS 7 update I'm now suffering with so much nausea I cannot use my iPad and have to close my eyes a lot when I really need to use it as my only computer device! Making me want to change to galaxy for my phone upgrade........

Perhaps this is a question for lawyers, but is it legal for Apple to make irreversible changes to a customer's product, without fair warning?

Apple did not warn in their description of the OS7 update that their animations could make some people ill. This would not matter if the upgrade was reversible. However, given that the change is irreversible, surely Apple should have given full and fair warning of this problem so that customers could make an informed decision as to whether to upgrade?

+1...dislike this feature of ios 7... it is slow and I find myself recoiling from the screen.. the feeling does remind me of motion sickness..

the sooner this feature can be disabled or accelerated the better...

look forward to some responsiveness on this one apple