How to Turn on Reduce Motion on iPhone
The iPhone has a single setting that will deactivate the transition effects, special animations, and parallax wallpaper. This is the path you should take if you like things static and simple.
How to Turn on Low-Power Mode
If your iPhone is running iOS 9 or later, you can also use the battery-saving Low-Power Mode to disable motion effects. Here’s how to turn it on.
How to Make Still Wallpapers
If you like the transitional motion effects but just want to turn off the parallax wallpapers, you can have it both ways by selecting a particular option when you set your background.
What Are the iPhone’s Screen Motion Effects?
Starting with iOS 7, Apple introduced both dynamic and parallax wallpapers along with some other effects that give using the iPhone a slightly different feel. The most prevalent ones are a “zoom” effect when transitioning between screens (for example, when opening an app or returning to the Home screen) and some animations in particular apps like Weather. The new operating system also ushered in some new features for users’ wallpaper, and the one that might cause some grief is the parallax effect. Parallax is a shifting of perspective when viewing an object from different angles, particularly while you’re moving. So if you’re riding in a car on the interstate and look out the window, distant mountains will appear to pass by more slowly than closer trees. What this means for the iPhone is that parallax wallpapers sit on a different “layer” than the app icons on the Home screen and move when you tilt your phone. And if all of this zooming and shifting turns your stomach, here are a few ways to stop these effects from ruining your day.
