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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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Oct 1, 2013 3:32 AM in response to pixelzoom

"Gratuitous interface changes are interrupting my workflow. Millions of iOS users are conditioned to 'swipe right' to delete something (eg, an email.) For some reason you changed it to 'swipe left', which I found only by doing a Google search. This and other changes have me wondering... why take something that works so well and change it? You didn't make it better, you just made it different."


In iOS 6 and previous versions you could swipe either direction to delete a [mail] message. So the right-to-left swipe isn't really new or changed, they just altered the left-to-right swipe and made it a completely different (system wide) gesture.


Oddly, I always swiped right-to-left to delete [mail] messages, so I didn't have a problem; however I've had to help out a couple of people that are in the same boat as you. The one that gets me is the iMessage where you have to hold down on a message to get the delete option. This is a good example of being inconsistent in the design and control aspects.


As Steve would have said, you are swiping wrong. Swipe the other direction, it isn't a big deal.

Oct 1, 2013 5:46 AM in response to stmcgill

I had Labyrinthitis over two years ago and still suffer minor effects. I can no longer use my iPhone after upgrading to iOS7 and am looking for alternatives today. I am in disbelief of the attitutes of those that can't get their tiny brains to understand that just because they don't have a medical issue - doesn't mean that no one else could possibly have the issue. I just can't get the logic. I wish a horrible case of Labyrinthitis on them.

Oct 1, 2013 8:10 AM in response to kgeter

I just sold my Apple shares because of this issue. I figure they are in for a drop as OS7 is so universally disliked, and Apple seem to be stubbornly ignoring all the complaints. I regard it as their "Vista" moment - Microsoft took too long to publicly acknowledge the frustrations of its customers and Apple seem to be falling into the same arrogant trap.

Oct 1, 2013 8:17 AM in response to Ensorceled

According to Apple support:

Additionally, you can Increase Contrast and enable Bold Text - some users have informed us that that has helped them reduce the perception of motion they encounter in iOS 7. They are under the Accessibility menu.


I also significnatly decreased brightness and that helped.


it is helping, but its still bad for me.

Oct 1, 2013 9:53 AM in response to Richatom

so you just sold your apple shares because of this?? wow....couldint wait or what......2 weeks in and you expect apple to just jump.....do you really think apple had talked to doctors to see if an app zooming out was going to cause vertigo to an extremely small amount of people?? whats with this sense of entitlement for something you get for free??? people are just so self absorbed in themselves and think everyone owes them something... its about time people take resposibility for their own lives... maybe all you vertigo sufferers should of went down and looked at the new ios7 like i did and see it before you blindly download something thats FREE and then complain about it!!! grow up people....stop making excuses for the crap that happens in your life... never in my 48 years of life have i seen such a swing in attitude that individuals are OWED somethng..... gonna go sell my burger king shares now because i dont like the taste of the coffee...cheers 😉

Oct 1, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Mark1965

iOS 7 isn't free- it is an OS you install on an expensive phone or laptop and then cannot remove. For those of us with a 5S, it has been a very expensive mistake.


"maybe all you vertigo sufferers should of went down and looked at the new ios7 like i did and see it before you blindly download something thats FREE and then complain about it"


I don't think any of us expected this to happen and I don't think Apple did which is understandable, but you have to remember that we are left with expensive devices that cause us problems. It has nothing to do with entitlement, it is to do with software that brings on bad symptoms for many people. Is Apple at fault? I don't believe the company is, but I do expect the situation to be fixed because I for one cannot use my iPhone or iPad currently. I am not bring dramatic about it, but until you experience the problem it is hard to judge how serious it really is.

Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

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