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Do you have Reduce Motion on?

You do you have Reduce Motion toggled on for your iPhone?

  • Yes

    Votes: 223 60.3%

  • No

    Votes: 147 39.7%
  • Total voters
    370
Vanilla35

Vanilla35

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Hey everyone. I don't really prefer to have the parallax feature on in iOS7 so I decided to test out the Reduce Motion option under accessibility in the general settings section. I noticed immediately that this also gets rid of the unlock animation, and also changes the zooming in and out of apps when being opening and closed - replacing them with a subtle fading animation instead.

At first I found this to be a blessing - because the unlock animation was cool the first few times but was really starting to become one of those things that irks me as I want to swipe to the next page but always have to wait longer because I'm forced to let the animation finish. Also, the zooming in and out of apps is something I enjoy visually, but (and this is the only thing that does this) it gives me a very slight nauseous feeling when it happens - kinda just like adding one more tick of stress to my mind (but in this case body) if you know what I mean.

I actually prefer the fading animation a little because it's quicker, and the unlock animation (also fading) is sooo much quicker when using Touch ID if you have Reduce Motion toggled on. I've been using it for a few days and all in all I think it is a better experience for me with it toggled on. I only have a slight feeling in the back of my head that I kind of miss the in and out of app zooming animation, so I just wanted to get an idea of how many people have this toggled on and off in general.

Sorry for botching the grammar in the poll

Thanks for reading :apple:


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I actually liked parallax :(

It's the zoom animations that I think are too flashy. The fade effect is great and 100% in line with what I want from a phone: speed and efficiency.

Nothing wrong with making speed and efficiency look good, which is why I thought parallax was good :(
 
oh wow, i have not toggled reduce motion on since the initial release of iOS 7, or maybe it was the beta's before that. But it never used to get rid of that fade in and fade out like it does now did it?

I like this much better, those fade in/out animations are garbage.
 
iSocialista said:
No.

I swear it feels like I'm the only person on earth who loves the parallax effect.
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I also love parallax. I only enabled this feature to get rid of many of the other animations. If they'd split it out separately, I'd have parallax enabled, and animations disabled.
 
I like the parallax but also like the fade that reduced motion brings. It would be nice to have the fade plus the parallax.
 
Shockwave78 said:
oh wow, i have not toggled reduce motion on since the initial release of iOS 7, or maybe it was the beta's before that. But it never used to get rid of that fade in and fade out like it does now did it?

I like this much better, those fade in/out animations are garbage.
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I think the new "tweaks" to Reduce Motion came with the 7.0.3 update

andyw715 said:
I like the parallax but also like the fade that reduced motion brings. It would be nice to have the fade plus the parallax.
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Yeah I thought it might have been cool to have each of the 3 changes (parallax, unlock animation, app opening and closing animation) able to be turned on and off individually - but the reason for Apple to even add this Reduce Motion option was because a certain portion of the demographic was actually having major problems with the animations. So I actually am grateful for those people - because I like this better :)

Maybe now I can consider myself handicapped, because I have an "accessibility" feature turned on :D
 
Parallax is neat, but I found that I forgot about it and simply didn't care for it.

And the animation zooming I hated, so I have reduce motion on. The fade in animation is much more pleasing to the eyes and seamless and less jittery looking.

Plus, I turn off anything that can use battery life unnecessarily, even if it's the most minor consumption.
 
I like the responsiveness of the UI when motion is off, but I like the animations and the parallax effect, even if they are slower. What I would like is faster animations. I think the animations make the whole OS look more polished.
 
Definitely happy with Reduce Motion on.. just wish things were like iOS6 snappy, especially multitasking. There's a little delay before you can start doing anything when you switch applications.
 
kramjam said:
Definitely happy with Reduce Motion on.. just wish things were like iOS6 snappy, especially multitasking. There's a little delay before you can start doing anything when you switch applications.
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I feel ya man. I have a 5S and the animations basically make the phone's performance over the 4S or 5 useless when it comes to general browsing/navigating. I feel like the animations should be scaled to performance - not as they seem to be; which is a static number that all iPhones from the 4 up to the 5S share.

Also I definitely have that slight delay (only every once in a while) when switching applications. iOS7 has so many little bugs it's not even funny haha. I just want them to fix the 100+ little tiny bugs and quirks that keep happening all over the place. They're not so much functional flaws as they are gaphical mishaps. I'm sure those will be fixed over the next year though
 
Voted: Happier with Reduce Motion on.. :rolleyes: prefer performance and battery life over bells and whistles.
 
kramjam said:
Definitely happy with Reduce Motion on.. just wish things were like iOS6 snappy, especially multitasking. There's a little delay before you can start doing anything when you switch applications.
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I find the delay at its worst when you unlock into a message, the keyboard comes up, start typing... But it only starts registering on the 3rd letter. So you have to go back and fix it.

Also notice in Messages app, if you hit send, then lock the phone... When you unlock it, it completes the "sending" animation, and the delivered status, as if it just went through at that moment.

Terribly unpolished compared with before.

OP, I leave reduced motion on as well. Increases the speed a little bit, and I can't see a point in parallax. I don't rotate my phone away from me while I use it, especially on the home screen. When I had it on, the only times I'd notice it were when it would jump and stutter when you close an app.
 
Hmmmm. I just turned the Reduce Motion On feature. Kinda like it. Phone (5s) feels a bit snappier with it off.
 
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