Month: September 2013
Apple support boards getting slammed over iOS 7 motion sickness complaints
“Apple’s iPhone and iPad owners have been taking to the company’s forums over the past week to complain about iOS 7′s new parallax and zoom features,” Don Reisinger reports for CNET.
“Many of the folks in the forum said that they’ve experienced motion sickness, vertigo, nausea, and headaches due to the motion on-screen,’” Reisinger reports. “‘The zoom animations everywhere on the new iOS 7 are literally making me nauseous and giving me a headache,’ one forum poster wrote last week. ‘It’s exactly how I used to get car sick if I tried to read in the car.’”
Reisinger reports, “Although zoom functions will likely remain in place with no ability to modify them, the parallax option can be mitigated from the Accessibility menu in iOS 7. Upon choosing ‘reduce motion,’ users should be able to turn off the parallax function.”
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