Your Iphone Has A Secret In-car Feature That's Seriously Underutilized - Here's How To Access It

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Using Vehicle Motion Cues connected an iPhone to combat mobility sickness
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I've ever had a mixed acquisition pinch mobility sickness. I don't suffer from it connected a level aliases ship, thankfully. But put maine successful nan backmost spot of a car, and I often get deed by a bad lawsuit of it, particularly if nan thrust is twisty and turny.

Triggered by mixed signals crossed your eyes, soul ear, and brain, those feelings of dizziness and queasiness tin beryllium highly uncomfortable. For anyone other who experiences mobility sickness, you tin move to your iPhone for help.

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Introduced pinch iOS 18 is simply a adjuvant action called Vehicle Motion Cues. With this characteristic turned on, animated dots look connected nan edges of nan surface to thief you amended process changes successful nan activity of nan car. Your extremity is simply to usage and navigate your telephone normally.

With its built-in accelerometer, your iPhone will consciousness that you're walking successful a moving vehicle. When nan car turns, nan dots move successful nan other guidance of nan turn.

"Research shows that mobility sickness is commonly caused by a sensory conflict betwixt what a personification sees and what they feel, which tin forestall immoderate users from comfortably utilizing iPhone aliases iPad while riding successful a moving vehicle," Apple said erstwhile it unveiled nan characteristic successful 2024. 

"With Vehicle Motion Cues, animated dots connected nan edges of nan surface correspond changes successful conveyance mobility to thief trim sensory conflict without interfering pinch nan main content. Using sensors built into iPhone and iPad, Vehicle Motion Cues recognizes erstwhile a personification is successful a moving conveyance and responds accordingly."

How to usage Vehicle Motion Cues connected nan iPhone

Here's really I combat my mobility sickness pinch my iPhone and really you tin do nan same. You tin besides usage Vehicle Motion Cues connected an iPad pinch iPadOS 18 aliases higher. 

First, make judge you're moving iOS 18 aliases iPadOS 18 aliases higher. Head to Settings, prime General, and past pat Software Update. Allow nan latest type to download and install.

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Update your iPhone aliases iPad
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To activate nan mobility cue feature, spell to Settings, prime Accessibility, and past pat Motion. Select nan action for "Show Vehicle Motion Cues." Here you tin move it On, successful which lawsuit nan dots instantly look and enactment connected nan surface until you move them off. 

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Otherwise, you tin group it to Automatic, successful which lawsuit nan dots popular up connected nan surface only if your telephone detects a conveyance successful motion. I typically move it connected alternatively than group it to Automatic truthful nan dots are visible from nan get-go.

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Turn connected Vehicle Motion Cues
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You tin besides adhd Vehicle Motion Cues to Control Center, wherever you tin entree it much quickly. Swipe down from nan apical correct of your iPhone to unfastened Control Center. Tap nan positive icon successful nan precocious left, past prime "Add a Control." 

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At nan Control screen, swipe down to Vision Accessibility and pat nan icon for Vehicle Motion Cues to adhd it. To activate nan feature, conscionable pat its Control Center icon and group it to On aliases Automatic.

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Add it to Control Center
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After you activate Vehicle Motion Cues, you'll spot 8 dots -- 4 connected nan near separator and 4 connected nan correct edge. Overlaid connected nan screen, nan dots will collectively move up, down, left, aliases correct depending connected nan mobility of nan car. To quell your mobility sickness, don't attraction your eyes connected immoderate 1 dot aliases bid of dots. Instead, proceed utilizing your telephone arsenic you usually would.

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The activity of nan dots should thief your eyes and your encephalon amended set to nan activity of nan vehicle. As you navigate astir your phone, nan dots will moreover alteration colour based connected nan inheritance truthful that you tin spot them much easily.

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Use nan Motion Cues
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To trial Vehicle Motion Cues, I tried it connected a fewer different car trips, purposely sitting successful nan backmost spot and anxiously waiting for nan sensation to deed me. My first experiences were mixed. Sometimes I felt a spot of relief; different times not truthful much. On later trips, nan characteristic seemed to activity much efficaciously and consistently. I'm not judge if that's because I sewage utilized to it aliases because Apple has refined it complete time.

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Either way, I now trust connected it erstwhile I'm successful nan car and statesman to consciousness that onset of queasiness. Your results whitethorn vary. But if you acquisition mobility sickness nan measurement I do, this is 1 characteristic that's surely worthy a try.

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