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iOS 7 Motion Sickness

Well I'm not sick.

I do have a nasty headache. I think it's from complaining, which I'm doing quite a bit of.

Does AppleCare cover barf?
 
dkmtoronto said:
For what it's worth, I'm finding that the "Bold Fonts" setting under Accessibility seems to help. (Still trying it out.) The bolder fonts seem to provide a firmer anchor for the eye after a full-screen zoom, so that visual re-orientation is faster.

Here's where I found the tip:

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Wow, that's a great tip. I don't know about the motion part but it makes the phone look much better to me. Not so "delicate". It's a keeper.
 
I can't believe this is now an issue. Android has a lot of animations too, is that a problem for them too? I doubt it.
 
burgerking2 said:
I've been using IOS 7 on my iPhone 5 for the past few hours. And I agree, these animations are making me nauseous and have motion sickness.

I've turned off parallax, but the biggest thing that giving me a headache is the constant zooming in and out when you open and close apps.

I think there's many people in the same boat like me who cannot watch 3D films or play FPS video games like Halo, cause after 10 minutes, I feel like throwing up. And the feeling doesn't away easily. And I don't get used to it, even over time...

I really hope Apple puts out a fix to disable these animations for the many users who experience problems with motion sickness.

Otherwise, I may have to sell this phone, no joke. I've had the last 4 generations of iPhones, but this is that big of a problem for me...
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Same here. Turning off Parallax helped a little. I'm hoping I get used to it or they add the option to speed up the animations or let you tone them down. For the record I get motion sickness reading in a vehicle too.

I've had windows phone and android, neither of which animations bothered me. I think it's just the slow zooming.
 
Roofy. said:
I can't believe this is now an issue. Android has a lot of animations too, is that a problem for them too? I doubt it.
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You can believe or doubt all you want, the issues affecting people posting in this thread have nothing to do with you or what you think--they are real issues that affect those people and others like them.

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Macalway said:
Try changing your diet. Low sodium/carbs.
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And that will do what exactly?
 
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Casiotone said:
I'm not saying that these people are lying, but it does happen to make it a perfect smearing campaign against iOS 7 when nobody can doubt any of their claims without sounding like a bad person laughing about a medical issue...

(I can feel I will be highly criticized for this post...)
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I've never had any motion sickness issues and after using iOS7 it bugs me a little. I think it'll be great publicity for Apple if this is in the media. I'm sure it's a super easy fix.
 
Motion sickness is a real problem for some people.

If you are not prone to it, consider yourself lucky.

If you've ever been out on the ocean fishing on a boat, you know that there are always some people getting nauseous and throwing up. I assure you they are not faking it and nor are they just a bunch of whiners.

I have owned cell phones and smartphones for the past 20 years, including 4 previous iPhones. This new iOS is the first to make me nauseous.
 
Ok it's the next day I've thankfully adjusted. Maybe it was my focal point but it seems to be a non-issue now. Excellent.
 
Casiotone said:
I'm not saying that these people are lying, but it does happen to make it a perfect smearing campaign against iOS 7 when nobody can doubt any of their claims without sounding like a bad person laughing about a medical issue...
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"Smear campaign"? Really?
People saying what they feel is not that.

I'm using ios 7 on my ipad and the constant zooming and unnecessary animation is, at the very least, annoying. The lack of contrast w/ font selection doesnt help any.

If someone it feeling even slightly nauseous then i think looking away every few minutes may help.
 
To be clear, I'm definitely one of those people who gets the feeling of nausea relatively easily. Reading in the car, roller coasters, some 3D games, etc. all make me queasy.

I've not had any issues with the previous versions of IOS. Hopefully they'll just add a setting switch to let you disable some of the zoominess in the UI. The previous poster who mentioned the "falling" feeling I think nailed it. It reminds me of how in some 3D games if I jump off a cliff I actually have a physical reaction that feels like that. I'm sure a slide or fade transition wouldn't trigger that for me.

I love my iPhone, so hopefully Apple will just add the ability to disable or change the animations in the next update.
 
anothername said:
To be clear, I'm definitely one of those people who gets the feeling of nausea relatively easily. Reading in the car, roller coasters, some 3D games, etc. all make me queasy.

I've not had any issues with the previous versions of IOS. Hopefully they'll just add a setting switch to let you disable some of the zoominess in the UI. The previous poster who mentioned the "falling" feeling I think nailed it. It reminds me of how in some 3D games if I jump off a cliff I actually have a physical reaction that feels like that. I'm sure a slide or fade transition wouldn't trigger that for me.

I love my iPhone, so hopefully Apple will just add the ability to disable or change the animations in the next update.
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Downgrading back to iOS 6 is the only option for you. Do it fast!
 
I have no desire to go back to IOS 6, I actually think IOS 7 is a great upgrade for the most part.

The only thing that is giving me headaches and feelings of nausea is the constant zooming in and out of apps.

I think this potentially affect millions of users, so I hope that Apple provides an option to turn it off.

It would be like Apple forcing you to use this wallpaper with no option to change it or turn it off, some people would think it's cool, and for others it would drive them crazy and cause headaches:

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Im not getting motion sickness but I do find them disorienting. Hopefully I wont notice after a few days when I'm used to it.
 
Animations in Android are totally different to the ones in iOS. Just like 3D/CGI effects are different on video games than they are in Pixar and other animated movies. Hence why there are huge warning labels on Nintendo games and not DVDs.

We're not talking about the fading in and out, we're on about the text and how it changes right then and there on the screen, along with the background moving.

I didn't even know I suffered from it until 1997 when those types of games started coming out. You cannot fix those kind of feelings with a proper diet and exercise, it's all in your brain.

And getting used to it is not an option. You're going to cause yourself some serious mental damage.

I advise those effected to send Apple some feedback about it.
 
Most forums seem to value serious, on-topic contributions. The topic of this thread is "IOS 7 Motion Sickness", as listed. In light of this, most of the contributions on this thread are self-explanatory.
 
Max(IT) said:
It's me or the sickness seems to affect mostly new members ? :rolleyes:
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Perhaps because various people who are experiencing this didn't have any major issues with iOS before that warranted them creating an account on the forums? There are simpler explanations behind things, beyond any particular "conspiracy theory" ones.
 
Last year the noise canceling in the car caused some people to feel ill. Now the parallax mode. Wonder if people will feel a tingling using the Touch ID?
 
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