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

Actually, I don't think making them smoother would help; at least, not for me. Things zooming at me on a screen make me nauseous, regardless of the speed at which they do so. In fact, faster might make the problem worse.

The following Letter has been sent to "Apple Feedback" at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ as well as being emailed to accessibility@apple.com.

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Dear Apple

I am experiencing a problem with iOS 7.  Specifically, the thin lines (text and objects), parallax motion, and aggressively swooping animations are causing me nausea, similar to feeling "car sick."

I have turned on "REDUCE MOTION" to cut down on the parallax effect, which helps.  I have reduced the brightness.  I have turned on "bold" for my font preference in accessibility to help with the overly thin "vibrating" fonts on the screen, again, this provided some relief, but the interface is still full of objects that are composed of lines that are simply too thin, and there is way too much unnecessary motion.

Despite all the changes, I am still experiencing nausea when using my phone with iOS 7 due to the aggressive swooping animations throughout the system. My phone is a 4S, which I have had for two years, and this issue stared with the upgrade to iOS 7, it never occurred before that.  I also had a 3GS for two years before that, no problem with nausea there either.

I went to research the issue, and have been finding similar reports that many many other people are having issues with this on twitter and in the blogs. 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5322295

http://www.stuff.tv/apple/ios-7s-motions-effects-are-triggering-vertigo-and-naus ea-symptoms/news

I am writing to ask that that you consider prioritizing an update that allows us to scale back or turn off the unnecessary animations, similar to the preference that allows me to turn off the "genie" effect in the dock of an OS X Macintosh.

Thank you for listening.

Greg Gehr

shezebelle wrote:

 

Actually, I don't think making them smoother would help; at least, not for me. Things zooming at me on a screen make me nauseous, regardless of the speed at which they do so. In fact, faster might make the problem worse.

100% agreed for me as well

I think a simple enable/disable option for the zooming animation would be best.  Or even an animation similar to the ones they used in IOS 6 would be fine for me, as it caused me no issues

dated June 26th, 2013:

An open letter to Apple about motion sickness triggers in OS X Mavericks and iOS 7

Ios 6 has plenty of animations.

And if you haven't noticed before ZOOM ANIMATIONS.

There are 2 reasons why we are getting dizzy.

1. Animations are coming directly from the icon being pressed instead of the middle of the screen like with ios6.

2. Animations are twice slower, hence your eyes actually concentrate on them more (it's a natural thing to do).

Making them just smother / quicker most likely will fix the problem.

None of you requested animation disabling feature in ios 6 for some reason, and I am sure that we all have enjoyed wonderful, butter like animations in ios 6 :)

Besides that and couple of other issues ("plainish" looking messages interface, new keyboard letters being a little thin, and few others) ios 7 is really growing on me.

Setting up good wallpapers to agument tempered glass multi-layer effects  does a lot for the OS.

Love a lot of new changes. Old ios is starting to look 1999 on my girlfriends iphone after using 7 for couple of days

:)

I think I have to put the iPhone5 to the drawer and grab a Nokia Lumia or an Android from my office desk tomorrow.. :/ Incredible that the animations giving head ache did not appear in Apple's usability testing.. Or were they just ignored??

"Actually, I don't think making them smoother would help; at least, not for me. Things zooming at me on a screen make me nauseous, regardless of the speed at which they do so. In fact, faster might make the problem worse."

How did you not get dizzy with ios 6 in that case?

It had plenty f zoom animations (much faster and smoother, but plenty of them)

How did you not get dizzy with ios 6 in that case?

 

It had plenty f zoom animations (much faster and smoother, but plenty of them)

If you don't experience the headache and nausea from using iOS 7, at least try to have a little sympathy about the problem. There's no way to make you understand how awful it is unless you feel it first hand.

I've managed to trade in my old iOS 7 infected iPhone 5, for a new iPhone 5 with iOS 6 on it and it was immediate relief from the unreal motion sickness.

It's upsetting to me because I relish the new design aesthetic in iOS 7...   but at least now I'm not sick anymore.

Phasma Nemo wrote:

 

"Actually, I don't think making them smoother would help; at least, not for me. Things zooming at me on a screen make me nauseous, regardless of the speed at which they do so. In fact, faster might make the problem worse."

 

How did you not get dizzy with ios 6 in that case?

 

It had plenty f zoom animations (much faster and smoother, but plenty of them)

In reading all these different forums and posts, it seems that most of us posting did not have any problems with the IOS 6 animations, including myself.

This is a new issue that came with the upgrading to IOS 7 just 5 days ago.

There is something inherently different about the IOS 6 vs. 7 app zooming animation that is causing problems that didn't exist for many us before.  Personally, I don't think speeding up or smoothing will alleviate the problem.  Best if Apple would just disable it and/or switch back to the IOS 6 animation.

Frankly, the iOS 6 animations bother me, too, but not nearly enough to render the device unusable.

The iOS 6 app transition animations all come from the same place on the screen; much less dizzying than the centered-on-the-app-icon animations of iOS 7. 

Yes!  EXACTLY!  Very well said!

The iOS 7 rendered my phone unusable for me.  It made me so physically sick, that after three days of the constant dizzyness and nausea, I ended up buying another iPhone 4s that had the iOS 6.1.3 on it and I will never upgrade to the iOS 7, not until I know for a fact that Apple has made the changes that will allow all the customers with neurological issues, to use it without the ill side effects.

I guess I'm in the same boat to sick town with this. It's so bad that I can barely read this discussion board. My eyes have been crossing all day. I am nauseous and have a headache like I've never had. It's so bad I might just have to buy a new phone tonight because I don't think I can look at it one more time. I have the mostion and zoom off, so for me I think it's the colors and gradients and white space. So MUCH white space. Also, the thing is slow as ****, particulary with typing.