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The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

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Re: The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

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Post by aleksejs »

stronglikedan wrote: post #9

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.

That limitation can be bypassed through the Accessibility API on Android. KineStop supports this, but for some reason does not advertise it particularly widely. You want KineStop → Settings → Fix blocked buttons.

Re: The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

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Post by ihumanable »

jodacola wrote: post #15

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

Told my spouse about this feature when I learned about this a while back too. They have terrible motion sickness to the point that just shooting a quick text was a gamble.

Since they put this setting on, they can happily use their phone with no motion sickness. So +1 to that N.

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

stronglikedan wrote: post #9

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.

There's an open source app: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness

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Post by embedding-shape »

MaXtreeM wrote: post #20

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.

Strange, I have a iPhone 12 Mini and can definitely see a "Vehicle Motion Cues" setting under the "Vision > Motion" part of Settings. Maybe it depends on the Region? I'm in Europe if that matters.

Re: The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

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Post by 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.

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Post by AareyBaba »

namuol wrote: post #26

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.

motion sickness glasses https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVYQCHJ7

Re: The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

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Post by 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.

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