Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

I’ll conscionable activity from the car, I thought. But aft a fewer minutes of staring astatine my surface connected speedy upland switchbacks I could consciousness the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty spot successful my gut. I looked to the sky for relief, but thing helped... until I remembered Apple’s magic dots.

Introduced successful 2024, Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues committedness to pat into your device’s accelerometer and gyroscope to trim or, successful my case, moreover eliminate the mobility sickness felt erstwhile trying to usage an iPhone, iPad, aliases MacBook wrong a moving vehicle.

According to big-S Science, this type of conveyance mobility sickness is caused by the eyes staring astatine a fixed show while the soul receptor feels the car turning, braking, and accelerating. Motion Cues lick this by placing dots astir the periphery of the show that move successful harmony pinch the mobility of the car. When the car turns right, the dots expanse crossed the surface to the left; erstwhile the car brakes the dots descent forward.

It sounds preposterous, but I’m present to show you that it really works. Once enabled, I’ve comfortably publication books successful the Kindle app connected my telephone for a fewer hours astatine a go, and moreover written 1,000-word reviews while my woman drove our camper van to the adjacent destination. She uses Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues now, too, because they’ve been a crippled changer for really we equilibrium activity pinch life connected the road.

Vehicle Motion Cues tin beryllium configured nether accessibility settings successful iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. They tin beryllium turned on, off, aliases group to look automatically erstwhile conveyance mobility is detected. I for illustration to toggle the dots to debar seeing them erstwhile I’m driving the car. The achromatic dots are reasonably unobtrusive, but they tin interfere pinch maps, text, and imagery connected agelong consecutive stretches of roadworthy that origin the dots to beryllium motionless (Apple should dim each the dots successful those situations). You tin besides configure the dot size, color, and density if you want, but I recovered the defaults to activity conscionable fine.

I made it easy to quickly toggle the Motion Cues connected and disconnected by double tapping the backmost of my iPhone. To do the same, caput complete to Accessibility –> Touch –> Back Tap and group the Double Tap motion to Vehicle Motion Cues connected devices supporting iOS 18 and above.

I’m fortunate that I remembered this obscure accessibility characteristic that I utilized almost regular connected a caller two-month roadworthy travel astir Europe. Hopefully you’ll find akin occurrence erstwhile walking this summer.