{"id":8097,"date":"2013-10-27T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:34:56","slug":"reduce-motion-in-ios-7-0-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/27\/reduce-motion-in-ios-7-0-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Motion in iOS 7.0.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-releases-ios-7-0-3-with-updated-reduce-motion-setting-spotlight-improvements-icloud-keychain-and-more\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-releases-ios-7-0-3-with-updated-reduce-motion-setting-spotlight-improvements-icloud-keychain-and-more\/\"><p>iOS 7 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2013\/08\/27\/along-for-the-ride\">criticized<\/a> by early adopters for the slowness and amount of animations and transitions throughout the OS. A subset of users asked Apple to reduce the motion of the OS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/ios-7-and-motion-sickness-poll\">as it was causing motion sickness<\/a> for them; a setting that the company had included in the Settings app wasn&rsquo;t enough, as it disabled the parallax effect of iOS, but <em>not<\/em> the new animations.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has listened, and in iOS 7.0.3 the Reduce Motion setting (available in General &gt; Accessibility) now truly reduces animations: switching to apps and back to Home screen, unlocking the device, and moving between folders is now a cross-fade that is much faster than Apple&rsquo;s animations with Reduce Motion turned off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/iphone-5s-first-impressions\/\">my iPhone 5s first impressions<\/a> post, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/iphone-5s-first-impressions\/\"><p>It still feels like I&rsquo;m often waiting for the phone, though sometimes this is for animations or the network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have not timed it, but subjectively the cross-fade feels <em>much<\/em> faster to me than the animation. It makes my phone so much more pleasant to use that I think Apple should make this the default.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: iOS 7 was criticized by early adopters for the slowness and amount of animations and transitions throughout the OS. A subset of users asked Apple to reduce the motion of the OS as it was causing motion sickness for them; a setting that the company had included in the Settings app wasn&rsquo;t enough, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,469],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8098,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}