It ’s official : Apple released iOS 10 on Tuesday , complete with piles ofexciting Modern features(you’re able to finally erase Apple ’s stock apps now ! ) that ’ll make your iPhone and iPad better than ever . And while the update addsseveral cool feature to the Messages app , lease ’s just say the meretricious new school text animations are … a little much . Thankfully , there ’s an gentle way to turn them off .
After you update , holding down on the redesign send push button in the Messages app allows you to interchange the way your school text message bubble come out when they transmit ; for example , the " gimcrack " effect exhibit your message in giant varsity letter while the bubble didder slenderly for stress . If youreallywant to get someone ’s attending , you may also send content with snazzy full - screen animations like floating balloons , a fit of confetti , a optical maser lightness show , exploding pyrotechnic , and a shot star .
As you may imagine , they all have the potential drop to be annoying , especially if your jerking of protagonist keep sending you the bloody exploding firework over and over again . A quick accommodation in your preferences app , however , will put a stop to the madness .
Here ’s what you have to do :
1.launch the configurations app2.Go to the General section3.Then tap into the Accessibility section4.Find and tap the setting labeled " Reduce Motion"5.Flip the switch
The stage setting turn off all of the movement – or animations –across your entire iPhone , include the zooming effect when you open / close apps and app folders and the parallax that makes your apps calculate like they ’re float over your home screen in 3 - D. Most importantly , it blocks all of the messaging brio .
Now , when you go back to the Messages app , you ’ll no longer have the ability to pick out an force for your message house of cards or any of the full - silver screen animation . skillful of all , if someone sends a message to you that include any of the special effect , they wo n’t play or appear when you take it , intend you wo n’t have to interest about a surprisal optical maser show train over your silver screen . Instead , the text will appear as it normally would , but with the name of the consequence in parentheses just below it . Like this :
As you may see , this is in all likelihood the elbow room to go if you ’re not a fan of the newfangled animations . On the other hand , if you enabled the Reduce Motion setting because you ’re not a lover of all the zooming affects and parallax elsewhere on your iPhone but do n’t mind the message animations , it looks like you ’re out of luck . You ’ll have to choose between ALL of the apparent movement - like limited effects across your iPhone or NONE of them . At least , that seems to be the case for now and could potentially change in succeeding updates .
No matter what you decide to do , just ensure you neverend your text content with a stop .
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