In this post, you’re gonna get an improved speed and performance on your phone by disabling animations.
For us screen reader users, almost a second is clearly quite the delay and lag. Perhaps not many people realise it, especially if they use TalkBack on a phone like the S7 series where TalkBack is really slow, but these animations can really make the difference with Jieshuo, especially if you’ve disabled them before.
This is one of the first things I do when setting a new device up or when resetting my phone or clean flashing my ROM.
Table of Contents
What are animation effects?
Animations are visual transition effects, movement effects and other similar behaviour. While these feel really nice to the eye, for us blinds are mostly useless and just slow down the phone. Animation effects are present when you change the windows in an app, such as different parts of the UI, when you close apps and switch between apps, when you go to and from the home screen, even when you scroll.
What happens visually when you switch off animations?
Usually, they get replaced either with the black screen or with the app’s color if running Android12 and higher.
How to disable animation effects
From developer options
Step1. Turn on Developer Options
At first, we’re gonna enable developer options. To do that:
- Open your device’s settings app
- Go to about phone/about device
- Skip this step if you’re not using a Samsung device! Tap on Software Information
- Find Build Number and tap it 7 times (14 times if you are a screen reader user). You may be asked to enter your screen lock to confirm. No biometrics allowed
Step2, turn the animation scales off
You can find them under the drawing category. Tap each one, than tap animation off:
- Window Animation Scale
- Transition Animation Scale
- Animator Duration Scale
From accessibility settings
An option to turn off animations is usually found in accessibility settings. On Samsung phones, you can go to “Accessibility settings” > “Visibility enhancements” and set the “Remove animations” option to on.
Final thoughts
Once you turn animations off, you’ll really feel a difference. Again, this difference could be not as present if you’re using a phone like the S7 series with TalkBack, but it really makes a difference once you get used to them off.
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