[40four]

Never knew this feature existed! I’ve gotten this type of motion sickness my whole life, so I’m excited to try it out. It would be nice if it’s effective for me.

I get the same type of nausea described by the author. I can’t read a book or look at a screen for too long without a feeling awful. I can also get it just from sitting in a rear passenger seat, especially if vehicle has poor visibility, and even worse with a bad driver. I have to really focus on looking outside the vehicle at the moving world.

Interestingly, I think there are people that have the opposite type of motion sickness. For example, my mom could never play arcade racing games without getting nauseous. The issue being focusing on a screen with rapidly moving objects and everything else in the peripheral being fixed, versus focusing on a fixed object and everything in the peripheral moving. She never had any issue reading a book in a moving car

[dhosek]

I have the same issue your mom does. First-person shooters give me motion sickness (which is why I never got past the first level of Wolfenstein back in the day). Maybe the newer FPS games would be better for my brain, but I don’t have much interest in trying.

[dillutedfixer]

I started getting nausea from FPS games around the time I got into my 30s. It was when Fallout 4 came out and I just had to play that game. So I did some research and found out about sea-bands. Theyre for morning sickness that pregnant women get. They worked wonders for my FPS nausea. I was able to play through many games after that without getting sick. Put them on about 10 mins before playing and wear them for the duration.

edit: clarity

[ok_dad]

My wife calls it sim sickness, because she can’t do any POV type games like racing or fps, too. She can play WoW or third person games if they’re zoomed out enough.

She also got motion sickness until she turned on the Apple dots.

[40four]

Yeah that makes sense, rapid onscreen movement, but your surroundings are fixed. I feel like you hear of that version less often, but it interesting it basically the inverse of the other kind.

[ebbi]

> Maybe the newer FPS games would be better for my brain

It might do. I recently had a bout of nostalgia and wanted to play GTA4 again (as a Uni student I only played part-way through without being able to finish the story). I ended up buying a used PS3 to play it, but I couldn't get through 30 mins of it before feeling nauseous. The low FPS on the PS3 just wasn't sitting right with me.

I ended up getting an Xbox Series S. The constant 60fps on this console was a game changer for me.

[port11]

It’s a great feature, I’ve been testing it while we drive in the Greek mountains. I don’t know why it’s buried so deep in Settings.

[gabeio]

You don't need to hide it so deeply, it can be added to your control panel add the control 'vehicle motion cues' and you can add a button which allows you to change it between on/auto/off.

I highly recommend people look through apple's accessibility features every major release they seem to quietly release some real gems.

They hid a whole app for sleep/chill/productivity/wellbeing sounds in there as well!

[JumpCrisscross]

> you can add a button which allows you to change it between on/auto/off

There is an automatic mode that works perfectly for me.

[joshschreuder]

You can add it as a Control Center toggle as well which is useful for quickly enabling / disabling without digging through the settings

[nxobject]

At this point the Accessbility preference panes are just crammed full with tweaks and tools – good if you need them, bad for discovery!

[JumpCrisscross]

It really works. Just put it on auto and let the phone’s accelerometer control when it turns on.

The crazy thing is if I focus on the dots (versus the text behind them), my nausea comes back.

[MBCook]

They added it a few years ago. I tried it for about 30 seconds and was so annoyed by how distracting I found it I turned it off and never did again.

I just don’t use the phone when a passenger in a car.

If it works for you and doesn’t bother you as much as me, go for it! I wouldn’t be surprised that it works.

[fecal_henge]

Maybe for christmas you could get your mom a multi axis driving simulation rig.

[madaxe_again]

Just get her a rally car, costs about the same and much more fun.

[xattt]

Any recommendations? I searched, but not sure if the results that come up are just white-boxed versions of the same thing.