Q: Any way to turn off iOS 7 navigation animations?

Of course this is a real issue, and I'm not at all surprised it exists, given how psychedelic things look even in some of Apple's press photos. Visually induced motion sickness (VIMS) and visual stress (http://www.lucid-research.com/visualstress.htm) have become very active fields of research because of the implications in applications ranging from (FPS) video games to jet and airline pilot training through alleviating reading problems in dyslexics and enjoying contemporary art. And it happens to be one of my fields of research.

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...

This is a health issue comparable to epileptic attacks caused by certain kinds of flicker, first observed on a large scale because of a now infamous episode on Japanese TV. I think it's serious enough for Apple to provide EITHER a very rapid update that allows to disable animations or reduce their duration significantly (something I think should be configurable anyway, at least after an initial hour or so of having "admired" them ...) OR a well documented way to downgrade back to 6.1x (and sign that release again, of course).

In the meantime, the symptoms are aggravated by certain kinds of colour contrast. Without going into too much detail, it ought to help to select a very drab (grayish or with a slight tint of a colour you perceive as soothing) background, to reduce brightness and/or contrast, turn off the parallax bling and experiment with inverse video mode. These symptoms are accumulated, meaning each obnoxious stimulus will aggravate matters, and so anything you can do to reduce/remove them will be beneficial. That also means that "just don't look" when those animations happen should be a reasonable avoidance strategy ... and if indeed it is, it might be the perfect argument to convince Apple that their eye "candy" really is as bad as classical candy is for the teeth.

I presume that previous iOS generations were not or much less affected by VIMS because of the soothing and largely monochrome appearance of the glass GUI...

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.

ohhh! yes!

i was wondering why i have the described problems. now i understand. also feel bad when using ios7 on my iphone 5s too long.

apple should adapt the software to disable any animations!

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.

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.

Please, give option to return to latest os6 and we will be back as soon as tye os7 will be ready to be genuine apple.

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.

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.

oh Yes, that zooming effekt, especially after unlocking, is very annoying. Please APPLE, give us a chance to turn that off. At least, make it shorter! really makes one feel waiting until the stupid zooming is done and you can tap somthing.

Absolutely AGREE!

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.

uhm...i think the zoom effekt is worst after screen unlock, where it is centered. I think it's perceived mostly with duration and reversed acceleration. Such a useless and distracting gimmick is not what one would expect from apple....

I do have the same problem, i feel like i have to vomit after a while of using iOS 7. I really love the new iOS but it seems like it makes me feel sik.

I have a feeling of discomfort for 3 or 4 days, since yesterday I have eye pain especially in the left eye.

Really! it comes from IOS 7??