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[chickdigger802]

Make sure you update to 7.0.3 first.


Settings -> General ->Accessibility -> Reduce Motion -> On

Instead of the slow fancy animations, its just a quick fade-in. way more snappy imo, and its excellent for people with older hardware.

Quick vine showing how it looks.

https://vine.co/v/hpZqFbdKzUe

 

[Ecto311]

Settings -> General ->Accessibility -> Reduce Motion -> On

Instead of the slow fancy animations, its just a quick fade-in. way more snappy imo, and its excellent for people with older hardware.

Isnt it on by default? Was on my 5c

 

[Samurai_Heart]

Does it improve battery life? Might turn it on if it does.

 

[crooked spin]

Does it improve battery life? Might turn it on if it does.

I have no problem with the current "slow" animations but I'd turn them off if it saved battery life.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Settings -> General ->Accessibility -> Reduce Motion -> On

Instead of the slow fancy animations, its just a quick fade-in. way more snappy imo, and its excellent for people with older hardware.

That just disables the parallax effect of the icons and background. I still get the animations when opening stuff.

 

[Hiccup]

This actually makes the phone speed up some.

 

[PackerinMN]

That just disables the parallax effect of the icons and background. I still get the animations when opening stuff.

Not after the 7.0.3 update.

 

[Symphonia]

Its had this since the beta, hasn't it?

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Mine update and had the fade in already. I did the whole 'reduce motion' thing so I thought the fade ins were standard

it is a lot better though. A lot.

 

[chickdigger802]

Isnt it on by default? Was on my 5c

dont know, wasn't on my 5. and flipping that switch turns it on and off for me.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Not after the 7.0.3 update.

Derp de derp. If I paid attention to the title I would have realized that. Double dumb ass on me for not noticing that. Thanks. I have had the reduce motion stuff off since launch, but don't know if I am on 7.0.3 or not. Shall double check now.

 

[Lima]

Holy shit this is good. Makes the phone a lot faster too (I'm on a 5)

 

[nhlducks35]

Its had this since the beta, hasn't it?

Not the fade in effect, it was just introduced in 7.0.3

Here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Klug9OTk8

 

[Diablohead]

iOS 7 feels a lot nicer with all those fancy motions disabled, especially on my phone.

I might leave them on for my iPad.

 

[reilo]

The improved Touch ID to desktop unlock is also noteworthy.

 

[Aurongel]

The animation for multitasking still exists but the latency between double click and animation start is back to iOS 6 speeds. The fading effect also feels a bit snappier as well. I hope Apple gives us some more ways to decrease the GUI complexity for those of us on older devices.

It only took them 7 full iOS revisions to finally make a firmware that IMPROVES performance over the prior one.

 

[Trojita]

I don't even see much of a parallax effect except for my wallpaper moving which is annoying when it lags and realizes it needs to get to a different place. It kind of just snaps there.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

The improved Touch ID to desktop unlock is also noteworthy.

Yep yep. It's a marked improvement over how well it worked before the update.

Combined with the removal of the animations and the whole experience feels a lot snappier.

 

[geebee]

Project Molasses

 

[Like the hat?]

How about they fist he keyboar delay issue instead?


CASE IN POINT.

 

[chickdigger802]

How about they fist he keyboar delay issue instead?


CASE IN POINT.

The what? Never had that on my 5 or mini.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I appreciate the heads up, but I'm still waiting until 7.1 until I upgrade.

Err .. actually 7.1.1 ... when they fix all the fuck ups from that release.

 

[apieceofstrange]

Does this benefit the iPad3 in a significant way? I still haven't updated mine to iOS7 due to all the horror stories I've read on here...

 

[CyReN]

Changed this afternoon, so much fast now.

 

[Uno Venova]

Wow IOS 7 is finally a full improvement.

 

[Like the hat?]

The what? Never had that on my 5 or mini.

Unless I only use one finger to type (on my ipad 4) I get all sorts of keyboard issues. I can't type on it like a real keyboard.

 

[Guevara]

Thank you based OP

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Settings -> General ->Accessibility -> Reduce Motion -> On

Instead of the slow fancy animations, its just a quick fade-in. way more snappy imo, and its excellent for people with older hardware.

Say what? I'm pulling my iPad 3 out of the drawer!

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

The fades don't really feel all that snappy to me, but I'm never turning reduce motion off as long as it's the only way to disable parallax. That load of bollocks can bollocks right off.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

The fades don't really feel all that snappy to me, but I'm never turning reduce motion off as long as it's the only way to disable parallax. That load of bollocks can bollocks right off.

Fades seem to take same time to me. But, like you, I am keeping motion off just to stop the parallax effect.

 

[magnetic]

So glad I can disable it now, I will never turn it back on. Really makes me wonder why Ive hates skeumorphic design, and on the other hand introduces these dumb little effects that reduce usability and don't even look good.

Pretty surprised Apple reacted that quickly, though. Usually they tend to just stick to exactly one specific way of doing things.

A darker theme would be brilliant as well, but I don't think that will ever come. So much white everywhere.

 

[Megasoum]

This is a gamechanger on my old crappy iPhone 4.

I doneish they would fix the keyboard lag too tho.

 

[DedalusJoyce]

can someone post a gif of this? Im at work.

 

[DedalusJoyce]

This is a gamechanger on my old crappy iPhone 4.

I doneish they would fix the keyboard lag too tho.

is the keyboard lag on Iphone 4 really bad?

 

[Megasoum]

is the keyboard lag on Iphone 4 really bad?

It's not the end of the world but it's definitely noticeable from time to time.

 

[Enco]

Great change but not for me.

Love the movement on my 5S.

The fade kinda makes it feel slow though. Should be quicker in my opinion. Why have any animation at all?

 

[see5harp]

Wow, this did make my iPad 3 work nearly as fast as it did on iOS6. The keyboard lag is all but gone completely. I did think it was pretty cool having all of the effects but it really makes no sense if it makes everything hitch (works fine on my iPhone 5).

 

[gkryhewy]

Does this benefit the iPad3 in a significant way? I still haven't updated mine to iOS7 due to all the horror stories I've read on here...

Yes, it's significantly better.

 

[chickdigger802]

can someone post a gif of this? Im at work.

here is a quick vine i made

https://vine.co/v/hpZqFbdKzUe

 

[Eusis]

This is a gamechanger on my old crappy iPhone 4.

I doneish they would fix the keyboard lag too tho.

Yeah, this prompted me to update. Was sick of how slow everything had gotten.

 

[Meatfist]

I wish I could turn off JUST the parallax, I like the animations on my 5 :/

 

[ecurbj]

I wish I could turn off JUST the parallax, I like the animations on my 5 :/

Sorry, I'm a noob to the terms but what is the parallax feature?

 

[jediyoshi]

Sorry, I'm a noob to the terms but what is the parallax feature?

It's the phone using its gyro to detect when you're angling your phone and it shifting the background slightly to give a bit of a 3D effect.

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

Good, thanks OP. It was feeling pretty slow to me.

 

[killertofu]

I feel like the fades are slower....

 

[Hcoregamer00]

Yay, my iPad 2 is faster again.

Hurrah!!

 

[Bgamer90]

I wish I could turn off JUST the parallax, I like the animations on my 5 :/

I'm vice versa. I like the parallax feature with my wallpaper but I could do without the "zoom-in/out" menu transitions.

 

[PGamer]

Does this help with third gen iPads? I've avoided updating largely due to reports of terrible performance with iOS7.

 

[Hatty]

Takes the same amount of time it seems
Placebo effect?

 

[wenis]

I'd rather have the animation than the parallax, losing the animation for this fade is lame.