Accessibility - vision
Reduce Motion
Most people call this fewer animations and less movement.
Reduce Motion replaces the zooming and sliding animations with simple fades, and calms parallax and other moving effects.
This setting is present on your iPhone.
- We have this path on file but have not yet confirmed it against an official source.
Where to find it - iOS 13 and later
- Settings
- Accessibility
- Motion
- Reduce Motion
What it does
Opening and closing apps cross fades instead of zooming. Parallax on the Home Screen stops. Auto playing message effects and some animated interface elements are held back.
What changes
When it is on
Animations become fades. The interface feels quicker and flatter.
When it is off
The full set of animations returns.
Should you turn it on?
Good reasons to turn it on
- Removes a real trigger for nausea and dizziness.
- The phone feels more responsive because transitions are shorter.
- Slightly less work for the graphics hardware.
Good reasons to turn it off
- The animations help you understand where you are moving to.
- A few apps use motion to communicate meaning.
Battery
Helps
Privacy
No real change
Performance
Helps
Cellular data
No real change
Storage
No real change
Out of the box: Off.
Where this setting used to live
Apple moves settings between releases. This is every location we have on file.
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iOS 13 and later
Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Reduce Motion
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iOS 7 to iOS 12
Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion
Questions people actually ask
- Does Reduce Motion make my iPhone faster?
- It does not make the hardware faster, but shorter transitions make everything feel quicker.
- Will this stop the zoom animation that makes me feel sick?
- Yes, that is exactly what it replaces with a fade.
If it is not working
- Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions, shown when Reduce Motion is on, removes the remaining slide.
- Auto-Play Message Effects is a separate switch on the same screen.
- Vehicle Motion Cues is a different feature aimed at car sickness.