If you experience discomfort when you use iPhone while riding as a passenger in a car or other on-road vehicle, you can turn on Vehicle Motion Cues—onscreen cues that may help reduce motion sickness. Vehicle Motion Cues appear as animated dots on the edges of the screen that represent how the vehicle is moving without interfering with what you’re doing on iPhone.
You can customize the pattern, color, and visibility of the dots, like using larger dots or more dots.
Note: Vehicle Motion Cues should not be used while operating a moving vehicle and in other situations requiring attention to safety.
Vehicle Motion Cues work best when you’re seated facing forward in the vehicle.
Use iPhone more comfortably while riding in a vehicle
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Accessibility, then tap Motion.
- Tap Vehicle Motion Cues and tap an option. If you choose Automatic, animated dots appear on the screen when iPhone detects that you’re riding in a car or other on-road vehicle; the dots are hidden when the motion stops.
- To manually show or hide Vehicle Motion Cues, open Control Center and tap the Vehicle Motion Cues button. Tap an option.
Quick tip: Another way to turn Vehicle Motion Cues on or off is to set up a shortcut.
Customize Vehicle Motion Cues
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Tap Accessibility, then tap Motion.
- Tap Vehicle Motion Cues and tap Customize Appearance.
- Customize any of the following:
- Pattern: Select Regular for a stable and predictable pattern, or Dynamic for a more engaging visual experience.
- Color: Select a color. Color saturation will automatically adjust to maintain contrast with the content behind each dot.
- Visibility: Select Larger Dots to increase the size of the dots or More Dots to increase the number of dots.
