[thrown_22]

>As an unintentional experiment, when I got my new phone a few weeks ago I checked “disable animations” first and foremost, and started using the device normally. And everytime I was doing a specific action the screen froze with a round arrow. It took me 5 min to understand that page and app transitions where, well, “animations”, and getting rid of them made for a broken experience.

I don't get it. That sounds like the OS is fundamentally broken that it assumes a hard coded timer is required before it does the next step.

[makeitdouble]

It isn't a hard coded timer, it's the "loading" animation you see while an app or a page bootstraps a new view. In macos it would be the equivalent of the spinning beach ball.

In iOS I think there is just no way to disable all the animations, while android gives you that switch that is quite literal.

[alwillis]

You might want to check the accessibility features of iOS: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/