The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

fastaguy88

Did I miss the part where you must be looking at your iPhone for it to work?

leetbulb

I've been using this for a while now. It works very well while being a passenger in a car. Highly recommend enabling it if you experience car sickness.

Analemma_

The first time I saw this I just took it as a given it would be a placebo, and I was rather astonished to find it actually helps quite a bit, my phone-induced motion sickness is reduced significantly with it on. If you're suspicious I'd encourage you to give it a try.

deepspace

I have been using the feature for ages, and it really does work, but it is by no means 'hidden'. It's just an iOS feature.

stranded22

It didn’t work for my wife, so good to see she is the exception rather than the rule

stronglikedan

This has been available on Android for years as various apps, but their limitation is that certain buttons become unavailable. Apparently, Android blocks certain "secure" buttons from being pressed when there is another app overlaying the screen. Does anyone know if Apple's version has a similar limitation? I would presume not since it seems to be implemented at the OS level or at least closer to it.

croisillon

Related: - yesterday, 110 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077999 - 43 days ago, 272 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530

jodacola

Learned about this last month from HN [0]. Subsequently took a 10 hour car trip where my wife and daughter both reported this feature allowed them both to read their books and articles while I was driving, which was definitely not the case on any prior road trip. So, add +2 to whatever Ns you're tracking. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530

skipants

This works really well for me but, when I get out of the car or off the subway, then I get a bit of vertigo. I’m really afraid that using the feature too much would make the vertigo worse so I stopped.

MaXtreeM

Any ideas why I cannot find the settings on my wife's iPhone 12 mini? She has iOS 26. I wanted her to try it last week when we drove a lot to our vacation but did not find it anywhere in the Accessibility -> Motion settings.

damienmeur

I m on Iphone 13, and disabling animations really gave a second life to my iphone which was really struggling

namuol

If they made glasses that did this I might buy them. I don’t need to look at my phone to get motion sickness, but if I do it’s almost guaranteed. It really depends on the driver, though.

snailmailman

Seeing lots of glowing reviews of this feature. Unfortunately it does not work for me. If anything, the dots just distract me or make it worse. Glad it works for some people though! Weird how our brains work. Surprising to me that some small dots can be so helpful.

Agingcoder

Doesn’t work for me. I used to be able to read in cars but over the years I’ve reached a point where I last maybe two minutes, except if I’m on a straight road where it takes longer. I was really hopeful this would work but clearly it doesn’t .

D13Fd

I’ve been using this for weeks, and it’s pretty incredible. I used to get motion sick especially quickly when I looked at my phone in a moving car. Now it’s the opposite, if I’m sick in a moving car, I try to look at my phone, which magically fixes it. It’s amazing how that sick feeling in your stomach can be fixed by looking at some purely visual moving dots.

dlcarrier

Also, if you have trouble with your phone displaying too much movement when you aren't moving, use the "Reduce Motion" settings in iOS, or in Adnroid enable developer options and set all animation scales to off. This not only prevents vertigo-inducing animations, it also makes the phone much more responsive, as it doesn't have to wait for the animations. If you don't think it affects you, still give it a try. Chances are you will find the phone more usable, even if you didn't initially notice it as a problem.

shpx

I turned this off because it engages when you're on a flight and in that context it feels kind of nonsensical and just annoying. I don't think the people who made this thought about flights.