Ummm you do have a choice.. When you set the wallpaper you can disable the parallax effect and the wallpaper zoom while leaving reduce motion off thus keeping the weather animations and messages bounce.
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iOS 7.1 and Apple weather app animations
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Ummm you do have a choice.. When you set the wallpaper you can disable the parallax effect and the wallpaper zoom while leaving reduce motion off thus keeping the weather animations and messages bounce.
You can't disable the parallax with reduce motion toggled off. The perspective zoom feature is poorly understood and its function can be better seen when vertical lines are on the screen. It gives the impression that these lines are disappearing onto the horizon, like a road or train track going into the distance.
It was somewhat wrong in the sense that a universal/system setting to reduce motion didn't do it across the board, which is what it should have been doing by its nature, which is what they corrected.
What you actually want is more control of different settings or sub-settings, like a separate control for icon and related animations, separate control for in-app animations, separate control for parallax, etc., etc., etc.
Yes, absolutely. Reducing animations in an app is ridiculous. Why does it only reduce them in stock apps? This is pandering to an extreme minority.
I don't know about "pandering", it's basically doing what the actual setting implies it would do system-wide. As to why it perhaps can't be done in 3rd party apps, well, Apple doesn't really have control of those to change something within then beyond some APIs I guess, but they probably don't really want to mess with things on that level.
You seem to be excusing Apple here. Just because I don't want the crappy and nauseating parallax, or the infantile 1980s app opening & closing animations, it doesn't mean that I don't want some nice eye candy in my weather app.
I'm not excusing but explaining their potential thinking. What you are looking for seems to be not further tweaking of the reduce motion setting but just separate/additional finer controls over various different animation/movement options.
I guess what I was trying to say is, that the Reduce Motion setting was put in to please the people who complained of "motion sickness", relating to the zooming icons when opening or closing apps.
There was no need to take it one step further and switch off ALL motion.
The rain moving on the weather screen wasn't an issue for people, nor was the message bounce.
Anyway, I think that basically we're both agreed that ideally, we can choose on a small level, exactly what animation we want and don't want
If you're on 7.1 and you have reduce motion off, then there will be weather animations within the app - such as moving clouds and rain etc.
In 7.0 through 7.0.6 these animations were present whether reduce motion was on or off.
The animation is in the top portion of the screen, kind of in the background. The icons themselves don't move.
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Okay I undestand. I had to set a different city to find something with clouds. Now I see them moving ever so slowly.
Because these animations are often laggy (on iOS 7) and distracting for some users.
Classic iOS was virtually unique with only having animations that are non-distracting, non-cool, yet integral to the user experience.
I never really gave a thought of the animations in the weather app, other than that they were quite cheesy.
However, the "Blowing Snow" animation is a little dizzying... the way the snow flakes blow horizontally and upwards a bit in such a turbulent manner while you're trying to read the text on top of it can be a bit much.
However, the "Blowing Snow" animation is a little dizzying... the way the snow flakes blow horizontally and upwards a bit in such a turbulent manner while you're trying to read the text on top of it can be a bit much.