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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 2:39 AM in response to Ensorceled

The zoom feature is really unwanted and unecessary. Its nly slowing down the entire experience.


For Example. If I want to check the battery percentage when the phone is locked. I press the home button and I want to screen to appear snap like it did in previious iOS version. Now the zoom animation kicks in and takes it takes a while before the entire screen lights up.


Second example is blatant slowly down of the experience is when I minimize the app and open a new different app. The zoom animation is totally unnecessary and I don't want to see the apps open. I just want to them open. This along with the parallax is bit of a gimmic. Parallax was fun for two minute before I disabled it, shame we can't disable the zoom feature.


Apple, give an option to disable the zoom feature. Its different from people moaning about changes being made to facebook or gmail which are free services. In this case, I've paid £549 for a this device. iOS 7 more so feels like version 1 of a OS.


Sep 26, 2013 4:56 AM in response to sk84

One more post agreeing with most everything others have said. Vertigo, unnecessary fluff, gratuatous changes that have little practical use, alterations in the left and right swipe functions after millions have "learned" the one and now must "re-learn" the opposite, thin and difficult to read and use fonts and on and on and on.

Please Apple, make some changes and become the company that you once were.

Sep 26, 2013 5:06 AM in response to agpetdoc

Yes, apple, please - you made me a great fan of your support page, you did it, in one simple moment - i never wrote in forums before. I do not need another way of swiping, i do not need hudge flying graphics. My child prefers it all only in gaming, but not in os and work applications. Please, make your future the same bright by as it was. No falling of stock prives, you really do not need it. And we customers will never need to look and chose beween two similar devices. And we will continue to pay in app store for responsibly made and doublechecked apps for our convenience and prosperity. Just do what you know best.

Sep 26, 2013 5:20 AM in response to SaturtA

Imagine, what could it luke like if you will make this support page look lije new os7? RIDICULOUS! It will not serve the goal. The colourf design is for fun time, not for everyday. I would prefer gray scale at all. And you see, the unity of design in os7 struggles as well. Just make better hardware, and i will purchase the new high end - i promisse.

Sep 26, 2013 6:00 AM in response to Ensorceled

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.

Sep 26, 2013 6:34 AM in response to bb9193

I believe the dizziness experienced is because of two things:

1. The zoom animation is not centered on the screen.

2. The animation is too drastic in terms of the size difference between the beginning and ending of the zoom


If the zoom came out from the center and faded in at the midway point (or larger), this would take care of the problem

This is how the previous iOS functioned.

Sep 26, 2013 9:17 AM in response to RJV Bertin

Thanks for the information! I've been trying to figure out why I'm getting the feeling of nausea while using IOS 7 and I'm glad people are researching this. I can't use my phone or iPad for more than a minute or two before feeling sick. I haven't had this kind of reaction since the early days of 3d games where some of them made me nauseated. Never had a problem with iPhones since version one until now.


I hope they add some kind of switch to turn off all the animations and other bits that are causing it.

Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

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