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

Here's the feedback I sent to Apple at http://apple.com/feedback :

Some feedback on the iOS 7.0 user experience. I'm a UX designer and software developer.

(1) Animations are making me nauseous, inducing vertigo, slowing my workflow, and distracting from the overall user experience. Judging by the forums and press, I am not alone. Please provide a way to disable animation.

(2) Thin black text on bright white background is difficult to read, fatiguing, and after awhile results in the allusion that the screen is vibrating. It's a poor default choice. You've ignored years of UX research that points to fatigue caused by black-on-white. Please provide a way to change this theme.

(3) The default font is a poor choice, it's too thin and delicate for a small device like a phone. Workarounds I've found are all in "Accessibility" settings (bold font, larger font, higher contrast). If people WITHOUT disabilities have to resort to using Accessibility features, you have a serious design problem. (I have excellent vision btw, and I'm having problems with the default settings.)

(4) 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.

(5) Inconsistent interface conventions. For example, in the Mail app: In one place, there is a trash can icon to delete things. In other places there is a "Trash" button.

It's amazing to me that these issues got through your beta testing process. Hopefully you will correct these via a prompt iOS 7.0.1 release.

All true. (I noticed the trash thing as well)

I won't update to iOS 7 because of this animation everywhere. Waiting for update.

I wish I had not already updated. I really want back IOS 6, so I do not have to look away from my phone everythime I do anything on it.

I was very surprised when my first look at iOS 7 made me nauseous. I suppose it's a testament to the quality of screens now that this can happen even on something as small as an iPhone. Still, it's not an endorsement that I'm happy giving. I'm even less happy to find that there's currently no way to turn it off. I liked much of the rest of what I saw in iOS 7, but that doesn't make up for feeling sick when I try to use my phone.

I've been looking at the framework for a project that's currently Android specific, with an eye to porting it to iOS. It's difficult for me to stomach doing that until this is fixed, so I'm off to shop for something else. Note, Apple, that these animations are costing you money and developer share Right Now. Please provide a way to turn them off. The "reduce motion" button is already there. Just make it more effective.

I believe you can get the 4s for free from Apple- not sure about the carriers. I would check with them about it. So sorry that many of you are having this problem.

I just updated to ios7 and 15mns later I am sick to my stomach. This is not a coincidence! I absolutely love the new interface, except for this horrible animation. Please Apple, just give us a way to turn it off! I'm shocked that it wasn't an option in the first place.

That is exactly what I ended up doing after three days of vertigo!  SO DIZZY UGH!  I got a new iPhone 4s which has the 6.1.3  and I will NEVER update until I know for sure they changed it!

Well,

Overall ios 7 is growing on me more and more. Besides few ugly icons the ios feels fantastic, once you start to feel layering effect more and more. Very modern. I hated it at first, but besides few annoyances overall feel is fantastic. :)

Love parallax effects, but minimizing/maximizing applications are making me dizzy got sure.

Just make animations faster and smoother.

I agree that there should be an option to disable the animation.  Not only would it help with the motion sickness effects, but it would speed up the functionality of the phone.  I liken it to making the setting change in Windows to "adjust for best performance."  I don't need all the fancy scrolling and animation, I just want it to be fast.

Excellent summary of what I dislike about the iOS 7 interface. Thanks.

As a 20-year Apple fan, I'd like to write about the new iOS and urge Apple to make it easier for users to tone down the parallax effect. Persons like myself who have balance disorders can't comfortably use the new Home screen any more than we can enjoy simulated rides or watch 3-D movies. Please, Apple, keep this in mind as you work on your next update, and keep up the good work.

"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."

AMEN!  chaning the direction of a swipe isn't better, it is different.  And annoying!

Parallax effect is fantastic, and you can always disable it under accessibility options.

Disabling animations is not a good option!  Apple needs to fix current animations.

Making them faster/smoother will help reducing dizziness.