I've just updated to iOS 7.1 and I had thought that there might be an option to turn off only the parallax effect while keeping all the home screen animations (the zooming effects) effective?? Is there a way to do that, or are the parallax effect and the animations come together under the "Reduce Motion" option?
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4, Windows 7
Use the Settings app.
Settings > Wallpapers and brightness > either choose a new wallpaper or tap one of your existing wallpapers > you can then turn on or off Perspective Zoom > tap Set
This only impacts the parallax effect and does not stop other animations.
Use the Settings app.
Settings > Wallpapers and brightness > either choose a new wallpaper or tap one of your existing wallpapers > you can then turn on or off Perspective Zoom > tap Set
This only impacts the parallax effect and does not stop other animations.
Thanks for the reply. But it still didn't work. In short, what I want to do is:
• Turn off the Parallax Effect
• But at the same time, experience the zooming effects(Animations)
Thanks again for your reply Ralph :). I think I should wait for iOS 8 for such type of setting. :(
This is exactly what I was looking for also and the main reason why I kept to 7.0.0 until now.
In 7.0.0 when you enable "Reduce Motion", only the parallax effect was turned off. After 7.0.1, this option turns off the zooming animations as well.
I have noticed on a friends new iPhone 5s that the parallax effect only was turned off by either not calibrating the compass and being disabled in privacy. I'm not sure if this was only a glitch, but after he restarted the phone and calibrated the compass for the first time, the parallax effect was turned on.
I have not been able to replicate that effect on my iPhone 5 yet.
Would love to see an option to disable only the parallax effect.
P.S. I don't know if it's just me, but I've noticed that the zooming animations in 7.1 are faster, which actually are kind of dizzying. I'm starting to think to disable them altogether.
Thank you very much Ralph! Your genius answer really solved my issue now. Not actually an issue, but the addition of the new option in iOS 7.1, as suggested by you, made my wish complete 🙂
Regards,
Paneesh.
Now I'm enjoying the zooming effects(animations) while at the same time, extending the battery life to some extent by doing some little settings! Thanks to the valuable answer provided by Ralph (see above).
The procedure is:
Settings > Wallpapers and brightness > either choose a new wallpaper or tap one of your existing wallpapers > you can then turn on or off Perspective Zoom > tap Set
(If you turn Perspective Zoom OFF, you won't be getting the parallax effect or vice versa)
And after you complete the above steps successfully, you can say Goodbye to the useless (to me lol) and battery hungry parallax effect and enjoy the zooming (pretty amazing thing which looks good while working) at the same time!!!
But even after doing that, you can notice some parallax effect left over in the home screen, but I think that's normal (Or maybe even a bug lol). And the best part about that new option introduced in iOS 7.1 is, you can choose where you want the parallax effect to work (I mean you can either experience parallax effect in the lock screen or in the homescreen or both) It's your wish, buyt while doing the above steps, turn "OFF" the Reduce Motion in Settings>General>Accessibility>Reduce Motion>OFF
Try it @GetVladimir.com !!!
Regards,
Paneesh.
Thank you @Paneesh Stride and @Ralph9430!
I have been playin around with the Perspective Zoom option and even though it doesn't turn off parallax motion, it does reduce it. Since I have been using the default iOS 7 "stars" wallpaper, every little motion is noticable, so with Perspective zoom: Off, the vertical movements are gone and the horizontal are barelly noticable.
I don't know how and if it has any effects on battery or usage of the gyro, but is a lot closer to iOS 7.0.0 "Reduce Motion" option.
To make things more easy, I have made a YouTube video tutorial about How to reduce the Parallax Effect without turning off any other animations and effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXQ4awesT0
Thanks goes to Ralph9430 and Paneesh Stride 🙂
You might also have to turn off Reduce Motion.
Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
If this is on the the animation of opening apps, etc. will be off.
Your welcome.
Thank you so much @GetVladmir.com!! This really helps me and the people who has similar questions!!!!!!!!
Thank you, Paneesh Stride! I'm glad if you liked it 🙂
Any way to turn off only the parallax effect while enabling the home screen/folders zoom in/out animations?
