Vehicle Motion Cues
Austin_Conlon
44 points
22 comments
July 28, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (12 comments)
JSR_FDED
Works surprisingly well, had a super sensitive passenger in the car the other day and zero signs of nausea.
jdross
One of the best and most clever "hidden" features. Very Apple. I never get nauseous looking at my phone in an Uber anymore. My wife can barely handle looking at a screen in a car and this feature allows her to work with no issue.
NateEag
There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness
King-Aaron
This has been reposted here several times in the last few weeks, but it is a very neat feature. I find myself getting quite motion sick on the bus if I look at my phone, but these dots help me at least check messages here and there without immediately feeling like I'm going to throw up.
neko_ranger
This is an easy enable with "Automatic Detection". Are there any other phone "Accessibility" options that are useful to everyone?
Centigonal
I just found out this capability is also available on Macbooks! This would have saved me a lot of grief during a recent road trip through some mountains. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-motion-setti...
sssilver
I have no idea how something like this is ideated, then prototyped, then validated, but it does work wonders for me, and I am so grateful it exists.
esperent
My Android phone has this too (Vivo). Maybe they all do? It wasn't well explained what it was for though, I discovered it while messing with the settings and thought it was just a cool random feature to visualize motion. I'm just now learning it's for motion sickness.
myself248
This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!
reywilliams
n=1, but it works great for me!
d--b
The question I have is whether a phone with motion cues causes less nausea than no phone at all in a window-less boat.
zyz
A related post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557530 Sharing this here in case anyone wants to check out the discussion there and see how it looks in the Verge's short review.