iOS 18 includes a number of important new accessibility features. One of those features is Vehicle Motion Cues, which Apple says is intended to help decrease motion sickness when your iPhone or iPad is in a moving vehicle. Here’s how the feature works and how to enable it.
Apple explains that motion sickness is due to a sensory clash between what you see and what you feel. As WebMD explains in more detail, with some examples:
You suffer from movement sickness when there are conflicts between your senses. Let’s say you’re walking around the fair and it makes you spin upside down. Your eyes see one thing, your muscles feel another, and your inner ears feel anything else.
Your brain can’t pick up on all those contradictory signals. That’s why you end up feeling dizzy and sick.
On a plane in flight, for example, you feel like moving, but your eyes tell your brain that you don’t seem to be going anywhere. The opposite also is true. After a long sea voyage, you can stay still on dry land and still feel like moving.
So how does the Vehicle Motion Cues feature keep you from getting dizzy?Once enabled, the feature will display animated dots on the edges of the screen to make adjustments to the vehicle’s movement. When you drive the car, you will decrease sensory conflicts. Here’s a video of the show:
Vehicle Motion Cues uses sensors built into the iPhone and iPad to detect them when you’re in a car. The feature can be set to turn on automatically, or it can be turned on or off in Control Center.
In iOS 18, you can allow vehicle motion signals by following these steps:
iOS 18 is lately available for developer beta testing. Apple will launch a public beta this month and a general release in September.
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