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Mac OS has a 'reduce motion' accessability setting that might help with some of those animations.



Yep! That option works well for some people but personally I find it takes a bit too much "feel" away.

There are other options like making some animation speeds faster (so fast that the animation is almost imperceptible) and disabling some animations in Finder. The Cocktail utility can do it, and it can be done from the terminal too.

I'm not 100% sure this is up to date, but it might be: https://osxdaily.com/2015/01/06/make-the-window-resizing-ani...

The main one is basically like this:

  defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.003
Plus there are some more similar things you can set in `defaults`. (What the Cocktail utility is is a GUI that captures knowledge about a bunch of these settings into a convenient tool. There are other utilities like this afaik? BetterTouchTool maybe? idk.)

Then there's something called yabai which is a 'window management utility', but afaik it goes a lot deeper than other similar programs for macOS - it can disable animations and do some more stuff up to the point that you need to (partially) disable SIP to be able to make full use of it. Haven't tried but it does seems to be very worthwhile. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai


Thanks, I think that makes it worse. Now UI elements show up in places without an explanation for how they got more all the time rather than only sometimes.




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