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You Don't Need Animations - Purposeful Animations
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this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2025
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I disabled all animations in Android after the recent announcement of a vulnerability in which invisible animations could be used to trick users into unwitting actions. The sudden transitions without animation were a bit odd at first, but I was surprised how much faster and more responsive the phone feels with animations turned off. I like it better this way and feel no need to turn them back on.
Yeah, a few years ago, a friend handed me their iPhone to see, if I could find an option they were looking for. And I was genuinely appalled at how slow everything felt, solely due to the animations. Like, iOS has objectively better UI performance, but then they chose beautiful over usable with the animations and that makes it feel worse in many ways.
To be fair, I do find animations useful. On our work computers they've turned off animations by default, and I keep turning them on, because I just need that visual feedback - for instance, did I minimize the window or did the program just crash and the window closed - or I misclicked and closed instead? Just a small visual cue so I know what's going on.
That being said, iPhone (or Apple in general) animations are horrendously slow.
If minimized, it's still in the task bar thing.
But that requires an glance down at the taskbar and looking for the icon. If I see the minimize animation, I can jump right to the next thing. And as an added bonus (at least until Windows 11 fucked it up), I immediately get a cue as to where in the taskbar the icon is located.