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iOS 7 Motion Sickness

R4z3r said:
I guess my only question is, do you have issues with it if you use the "Reduce Motion" option in accessibility? I personally don't experience this issue so I'm not sure what exactly is causing it. It's a lack of understanding that leads me to what may seem like rude comments. Instead of just saying it makes me sick, I wanna know what about it. I apologize if it's rude, I just don't understand what is actually causing the sickening effects and whether the already available reduce motion option under accessibility fixes the issues that some are having with it.

With that said, would speeding up the animations make a difference if it has to do with the "genie"-esque zoom effect? Thanks for your patience
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As a number of people already posted it still happens to them with reduce motion setting enabled.

As for what causes it, it could be the longer/slower animations, it could be their different design, or a combination of it all.
 
Motion setting is when the background moves with the phone... not the animations. Wish people would research things.
 
R4z3r said:
I just don't understand what is actually causing the sickening effects and whether the already available reduce motion option under accessibility fixes the issues that some are having with it.
With that said, would speeding up the animations make a difference if it has to do with the "genie"-esque zoom effect? Thanks for your patience
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I think what's causing the motion sickness is that when you launch an app, the animation starts from where the icon is located on the home screen. And when you press the home button, the animation again ends towards the same icon. So the new animation is not centered, and is in fact different depending on where the icon is in the grid for the app you open or close.

In iOS 6, the animation was always the same, and coming from the middle it was always centered. So the fact that the animation is always different in iOS 7, is probably one cause of the problem (the brain doesn't know what to expect). Also, the animation is much slower in iOS 7, which definitely makes it worse. The quicker it would be, the less problems people would experience. But no animation would be the best. It saves time AND gets rid of the motion sickness problem.

I use OS X without animations and it's wonderful. I have 9 workspaces, and can go from one to the other, through the CMD-number keys, instantaneously. It's not confusing at all, which I assume is one reason Apple have animations in the first place (apart from being "eye candy"). I figure they want the pages to move if you use your hand with the Magic Trackpad or an iOS touch screen. But it would work perfectly without the animations as well.

It's time for Apple to give people a disable button for these effects. Both in iOS and OS X. That way, they would get rid of the motion sickness problems as well as letting professionals shave off some valuable time.
 
R4z3r said:
I guess my only question is, do you have issues with it if you use the "Reduce Motion" option in accessibility? I personally don't experience this issue so I'm not sure what exactly is causing it. It's a lack of understanding that leads me to what may seem like rude comments. Instead of just saying it makes me sick, I wanna know what about it. I apologize if it's rude, I just don't understand what is actually causing the sickening effects and whether the already available reduce motion option under accessibility fixes the issues that some are having with it.

With that said, would speeding up the animations make a difference if it has to do with the "genie"-esque zoom effect? Thanks for your patience
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R4z3r, thanks for posting a question and trying to understand as opposed to just ridiculing us, as most seem to enjoy doing...

The reduce motion option only disables parallax. It doesn't disable the app zooming animation, which appears to be the core issue for most of us.

Motion sickness is real. If you've ever known anyone to get car sick while reading or dizzyness playing video games like Halo, you know this is a real issue for a portion of the population. You can do a google search if interested to learn more.

The zooming animation in IOS 7 is causing the same issues. Yes it's a small screen, but if you're motion-sensitive, it can still cause the same real problems.

I think most people can't believe these problems are real because most people do not suffer from motion sickness. Maybe it's only 5% of us. So it's easier for them just to ridicule us as whiners and liars and Apple-haters, instead of trying to learn more about it.
 
In case this hasn't been posted here before, this article in the New York Times was published on 9/23 and is reference to motion sickness in general (not specifically the iPhone). To me, the most interesting point is that we are entering a new modern era of motion sickness, as we are surrounded by new and evolving technology, while most of the research is from 30 to 50 years ago:


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/rethinking-motion-sickness/

"Anecdotal reports suggest that Google Glass and Apple’s latest software update, iOS7, can induce motion sickness."

“There has been relatively little research on nausea, vomiting and motion sickness in the modern era. Most of the research is 30 or 50 years old.”

A link to some of his studies:
http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/50/2/322
 
Doc69 said:
I think what's causing the motion sickness is that when you launch an app, the animation starts from where the icon is located on the home screen. And when you press the home button, the animation again ends towards the same icon. So the new animation is not centered, and is in fact different depending on where the icon is in the grid for the app you open or close.

In iOS 6, the animation was always the same, and coming from the middle it was always centered. So the fact that the animation is always different in iOS 7, is probably one cause of the problem (the brain doesn't know what to expect). Also, the animation is much slower in iOS 7, which definitely makes it worse. The quicker it would be, the less problems people would experience. But no animation would be the best. It saves time AND gets rid of the motion sickness problem.

I use OS X without animations and it's wonderful. I have 9 workspaces, and can go from one to the other, through the CMD-number keys, instantaneously. It's not confusing at all, which I assume is one reason Apple have animations in the first place (apart from being "eye candy"). I figure they want the pages to move if you use your hand with the Magic Trackpad or an iOS touch screen. But it would work perfectly without the animations as well.

It's time for Apple to give people a disable button for these effects. Both in iOS and OS X. That way, they would get rid of the motion sickness problems as well as letting professionals shave off some valuable time.
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Very well said. I have been having some issues but it slowly is getting better with time. Some things are more bouncy also like in messages. I find the new IOS 7 makes my eyes tired and I get a headache with prolonged use so I just have been using it less. Find my self using my iPad with IOS 6 more now. I turned down brightness also so less glare from all the white on IOS 7 and I did make the font bold and larger.

I do agree a simple toggle to turn off animation would help.
 
I don't get motion sickness, but I do get headaches when I watch 3D movies. Because of that I was thinking I might have issues with iOS 7, but thankfully I haven't encountered any.
 
Apple finally replied to my email regarding my motion sickness issue with iOS 7. I'm relieved that they are now aware of the issue and it seems like they are finally working on a fix. It's now only a matter of "when" not "if."

"Hello,

Thank you for writing to Apple. At this time we want to ensure that you are aware of the current options to help reduce motion in iOS 7.
You can Reduce Motion, which turns off Parallax and limits the animations of other apps and icon badges, by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
Additionally, you can Increase Contrast and enable Bold Text - some users have informed us that that has helped them reduce the perception of motion they encounter in iOS 7.

Apple is aware that some users may need additional motion control options. We do appreciate your feedback and will forward this information on to the appropriate people for review.

At this time, we cannot comment on when a possible solution will be made available.

Apple Accessibility

Please also visit our sites
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
http://www.apple.com/support/accessibility/"
 
I told my wife about this thread and she raise her eyebrows questioningly. See, she gets motion sick easier than any person I've ever known. She gets sick when SHE drives her car, on normal roads (not throwup sick, but nauseous).

I have a feeling that if you get motion sick from using iOS 7, then you have some other condition that predisposes you to such a response.

Regardless, Apple should have options put it to turn off the animations (or at least go to more simple, less movement based animations).
 
karl184 said:
Apple finally replied to my email regarding my motion sickness issue with iOS 7. I'm relieved that they are now aware of the issue and it seems like they are finally working on a fix. It's now only a matter of "when" not "if."

"Hello,

Thank you for writing to Apple. At this time we want to ensure that you are aware of the current options to help reduce motion in iOS 7.
You can Reduce Motion, which turns off Parallax and limits the animations of other apps and icon badges, by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
Additionally, you can Increase Contrast and enable Bold Text - some users have informed us that that has helped them reduce the perception of motion they encounter in iOS 7.

Apple is aware that some users may need additional motion control options. We do appreciate your feedback and will forward this information on to the appropriate people for review.

At this time, we cannot comment on when a possible solution will be made available.

Apple Accessibility

Please also visit our sites
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
http://www.apple.com/support/accessibility/"
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I wrote Apple too, and got the exact same response. Let's hope that "forward this information on to the appropriate people for review" would yield some action from the ios development team. A switch to either turn on/off animations or toggle between fast/slow animations would certainly be helpful.
 
The animations don't bother me at all.

I saw a segment on the news the other night about this issue so I'm sure Apple will implement an option to change the animations in a software update.
 
Jman13 said:
I told my wife about this thread and she raise her eyebrows questioningly. See, she gets motion sick easier than any person I've ever known. She gets sick when SHE drives her car, on normal roads (not throwup sick, but nauseous).

I have a feeling that if you get motion sick from using iOS 7, then you have some other condition that predisposes you to such a response.

Regardless, Apple should have options put it to turn off the animations (or at least go to more simple, less movement based animations).
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The reality is, these simulated 3D animations affect different people in different ways.

The only way you know is if you try it out for a day of normal use.

At the end of the day, it probably only affects a small percentage of all users, maybe 5-10%. So if you and you wife are not affected, that's great, but doesn't mean others aren't...

From this thread, there are some who get motion sickness easily that have not experienced any problems.

Then there are also those who never get motion sick, but are feeling headaches, dizzyness, and and nausea-type symptoms when using IOS 7 due to the app zooming animations.

Yes it's true that some have pre-existing conditions that make all types of motion uncomfortable. Others, like myself, are 100% healthy and active adults with no other ailments. Never had an issue before as I had my iPhone 5 with IOS 6 for the past year with zero problems.
 
I'll try to avoid moderation this time.
I'm not a troll. I like my Ipad, I liked my Iphone. I don't even hate iOS7 (love the notification center, the control panel, the blocking function, and many mores). Hopefully, it will improve.

I dislike the blinding whiteness, the garish colors, the music app, the new safari app, the new photo app (with its maddening blurred transitions and strange font), the radiactive green messages, the bare naked Calendar, etc etc) but I can live with all that and I understand that to a certain degree, it's a matter of personal taste.

What I hate is feeling sick after using my phone for a few minutes because someone with too much power in his hands thought that adding flashy/agressive/useless animations impossible to opt out of was more important than costumer experience & usability. I did not ask for this. My phone was not making me sick when I bought it.

Please, to all members with over the moon wifes and entire families feeling perfectely fine watching apps constantly zoom in and zoom out from all the corners of the screen, consider yourselves lucky and stop doubting those who experience vertigo, headaches and motion sickness.
I had a message moderated because I told one of these insensitive apple fans he was a mere corporation drone, but messages mocking the people having real issues with this update is not considered trolling. I guess I don't know what trolling is then.
 
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I didn't I'd be saying this but....

I too felt sick after using iOS 7.

I've been using it since Beta 1 but I stopped after Beta 4, reverted to iOS 6 and only recently did I update my iPhone to the public release of iOS 7.

I don't get car sick or suffer from motion sickness but this was weird.

Dunno what else to say.
 
I don't get motion sickness, but I noticed I get sleepy, it's like the motion hypnotizes me. But that mostly happens when I do a lot of jumping from one app to another.

So I am really getting tired of these animations, literally tired.:D

The answer I would like to see is to have a legacy switch in settings, a simple switch to animations from iOS6. Animations from the center dose not bother me, but icons flying in from the outside and the zooming in and out from icons and folders does.

I like iOS7 on my iPhone 5s, it's not a real big deal, I'm certainly not a fan of the overly done animations. On the iPad I can't stand iOS7 animations are horrible not to mention iOS7 just feels wrong on my iPad.
 
I don't get motion sickness from using iOS 7 but when I switch between menu pages there is a slight stutter that hurts my eyes. The transition used to be smoother but something about that messes with my eyes. The parallax doesn't seem to bother me though.
 
There's potentially good news with the iOS 7.0.3 update that was just released today: with the reduce motion setting turned on the animations are affected by it as well now where instead of zooming/moving they essentially simply fade in/out, in a seemingly faster fashion, too.
 
C DM said:
There's potentially good news with the iOS 7.0.3 update that was just released today: with the reduce motion setting turned on the animations are affected by it as well now where instead of zooming/moving they essentially simply fade in/out, in a seemingly faster fashion, too.
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Great news!
 
Just downloaded 7.0.3 on my iPhone5.

LOVE IT!!!

THANK YOU to Apple for listening to our concerns promptly. Now I can use my iPhone without looking away each time - I've been so accustomed to closing my eyes each time, I hope I can re-learn to keep my eyes open when switching apps! :)

Apple realized this was an REAL issue for some users and gave us the option to disable.

(Wonder what are all the naysayers gonna say now? They'll probably come here and post "hope you crybabies and whiners are happy now!". And I'm sure some will say "I still don't believe any of these issues are real!")

Well, I for one, am super happy! :)
 
burgerking2 said:
Just downloaded 7.0.3 on my iPhone5.

LOVE IT!!!

THANK YOU to Apple for listening to our concerns promptly. Now I can use my iPhone without looking away each time - I've been so accustomed to closing my eyes each time, I hope I can re-learn to keep my eyes open when switching apps! :)

Apple realized this was an REAL issue for some users and gave us the option to disable.

(Wonder what are all the naysayers gonna say now? They'll probably come here and post "hope you crybabies and whiners are happy now!". And I'm sure some will say "I still don't believe any of these issues are real!")

Well, I for one, am super happy! :)
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Most will just be quiet since they really don't have much to say anyway (as they didn't even originally). Some will now complain that there's no separate option now to disable parallax while leaving animations enabled. Funny how complaining can come to those who complained about others complaining.
 
I've installed 7.0.3.

Now with Reduce Motion enabled, I no longer feel nauseated after using my phone.

After a month, I finally have my phone back.

Many of us contacted Apple about this problem. Apple listened. They fixed it.

While I'm not happy about having to go through this experience, they made it right.

For anyone from Apple who sees this thread, thank you.
 
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