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

I've had to make the font bold and bigger and reduce the brightness to mitigate the "vibration" effect of the horrible default fonts. 

My phone now looks like an old persons or kiddie phone with big fonts and bright colours.  I no longer feel professional when I take my phone out. I have 20/15 vision and amazing acuity but I have to enable multiple accessiblity low vision options to not get headaches.  My email shows half the text it used to on iOS6,  I'm processing email half as fast.  The big fonts also cause problems with notifications and other popups since some of the text is often hidden.

I see a lot of people saying they like the overall design of iOS7 but basically the awful font choices make this a train wreck for me.  Even if a "turn off zooming" option becomes available, I'm still stuck with essentially a half size screen because of the size of the text shown.  Increasingly, apps will follow Apple's design lead and one by one my apps will also become unusable unless they follow Apple's accessiblity options (many don't).

Yesterday I found out from my employer that they will pay for a phone.  I'm going to get an Android and switch to that as my primary device.  I'll keep my iPhone for development and wait and see if they fix iOS7.

What I need is new heavier weighted fonts *and* the zooming turned off.

I'm still dumbfounded at why they picked a thin weighted font and added useless animations.  It makes no sense from a design or a usability standpoint.   It's almost like this UI was designed for print,  like the user interface mockups we used to get from designers in the 90's.

christianfromhessen wrote:

 

I think you should apple know about this. Write them at www.apple.com/feedback, so they can see

I have left feedback about the zooming and fonts.  I called customer support, was escalated and the escalations specialist told me "you upgraded at your own risk" and that he would "talk to engineering about it".

I'm not holding out hope here despite the thousands of dollars I've invested in iPhones, apps and iTunes.  Apple is famous for turning their back on markets and users; I think, for the first time, they just turned their back to me.

My greatest fear is that this design "aesthetic" will make it's way into Mac OS X as well ... that would be far more problematic.

The other thing that this drives home ... I'll never, ever upgrade to an Apple x.0 release ever again.  For any product.  They have abused my trust.

jefffromwilliamsport wrote:

 

I'm sorry, but I don't get how this is such a hot topic.  I have had zero such issues and of the many people with whom I've discussed iOS 7, none of them have as well.  I don't doubt that some of these complaints are legitimate (and my apologies to those who are truly suffering) but the fact that this forum has been overwhelmed with such complaints, along with the fact that this has gotten so much press coverage, makes me wonder if some of this hasn't been planted by Apple's competitors.

Oh please.  Check out my history.  I've been using Apple products for years and have had this account since before the iPhone had competitors or even *existed*.

Do you think the moon landing was faked?

Do you scoff at handicapped parking spaces as well?

iPhone236545 wrote:

 

I guess I am a little confused. Did you have problem with the zooming in iOS 6. I just tested out the animation in iOS 6 and it is exactly the same, it just comes from the center of the screen. Please let me know if you had the problem in iOS 6, if not what do you think is different that is causing the problem?

You and me both.  I had no such problems with any previous iOS at all,  the headaches and nausea took me completely by surprise. I have had problems with certain computer games and I get instant headaches if I try to watch somebody else play FPSs.

I've actually come to believe it's the fonts that are a big part of my problem.  The bolding and resizing seems to have helped a lot, at least moving all my apps out folders and looking away during switching didn't make the headaches go away completely.  Unfortunately the big fonts make the phone's screen size even smaller and, as I said early, make the phone look like the Mickey Mouse Watch version of a smart phone.