Apple adds setting to help phone-induced motion sickness

If staring at your telephone in a moving automobile is a puke-worthy or vertigo-inducing expertise, Apple’s new Car Motion Cues may possibly be a resolution.

Announced along with a series of other new accessibility attributes, Car Motion Cues turn constructed-in motion sensors in iPhone and iPads into anti-sickness aids.

“Investigation shows that motion sickness is frequently brought on by a sensory conflict involving what a individual sees and what they really feel, which can avert some customers from comfortably making use of iPhone or iPad whilst riding in a moving automobile,” explained Apple.

When the new setting is turned on, a user’s telephone begins displaying animated black dots on the edges of the screen. The dots move along with the motion of the telephone or automobile to cut down the aforementioned sensory conflict, shifting across the screen as a automobile turns suitable or left or abruptly stops, “devoid of interfering with the principal content material.”