In my presentation, I have a slide with six lines. I'm trying to set it up so lines 1 and 6 will appear, then 2 and 5, and finally 3 and 4. I know I could throw a box over them and have the boxes disappear but there must be a better way to do this. :-)

How can I disable the hideously irritating 'rolling cube' animation when switching users? When I switch from one user account to another, at first it appears to switch instantly to the selected user, but then after entering the password that annoying rolling animation kicks in. I would be so happy if I could disable this, as it is not smooth, and it's both unnecessary and irritating. - I tried defaults write -g userMenuExtraStyle 0 in Terminal, but this did not work, even after reboot. I found this on https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-off-all-animations-on-os-x) . I am using macOS Mojave. - I already have Reduce motion ticked in Accessibility Preferences which reduced desktop switch motion, but not user switch animation (https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17929/how-can-i-disable-animation-when-switching-desktops-in-lion) . Is there a way I can disable this animation?

I would like to modify one of the keynote standard animations to have the white sparkles be red. I'd like to have the white animation below to be red in color. My setup is currently Keynote 13.1 (7037.0.101) on macOS Venture 13.4.1 (c) **Is there a color palette I can modify to achieve this?**

When switching to a full-screen app on a different space there is a noticeable delay (and jerkiness) with the animation during which further presses of ⌘+Tab have no effect. This continues for a fraction of a second even *after* the animation has finished. It's very annoying and disruptive if keypresses are simply ignored by the OS, and it's beyond me how such an obvious massive flaw goes past quality control at Apple (and how most macOS users seemingly just live with it). Is there a way to **completely remove** the fade (or slide) animation when you switch (⌘+Tab) to a full-screen app that is on a different space?

## I *reduced* animation and transition in macOS but not *completely disabled* As some people already discussed, one can "reduce motion" in accessibility settings, use defaults write to "disable" some animations, or use software like TinkerTool. But after all of that, when I *switch desktops* using Ctrl + Left or Ctrl + Right, macOS still displays a "fade in, fade out" animation for a few deciseconds, which is fine. But ## the window focus remains messed up for a while. Either the window on the previous desktop is still focused, or no windows are focused, for *about 1 second*, and I cannot perform any operation, which is super annoying and slows down my workflow. ### A workaround is to use Cmd + Tab to switch apps, or use Ctrl + 1-9 to jump to a specific desktop. In this way, the window focus is corrected. But this is a *workaround*, not a *solution*. ### Modification I did - Every setting in [TinkerTool.app](https://www.bresink.com/osx/0TinkerTool/download.php) that disables animation - "Reduce motion" in macOS accessibility settings - Some scripts, the one related to this is

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1

### previous discussion about this [How can I disable animation when switching desktops in Lion?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17929/how-can-i-disable-animation-when-switching-desktops-in-lion) talked about posting a bug and TotalSpaces.\ [How do you completely disable the space-switching animations in OS X Yosemite?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/190863/how-do-you-completely-disable-the-space-switching-animations-in-os-x-yosemite) concluded that there's no solution.\ [Disabling desktop switching animation on El Capitan](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/213405/disabling-desktop-switching-animation-on-el-capitan) . Solution has same problem as I have.\ [How can I disable animation when switching desktops in El Capitan?](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/234015/how-can-i-disable-animation-when-switching-desktops-in-el-capitan) talked about TotalSpaces and disabling SIP.

has anyone answer to this please ? The thing is, when I check "Displays have separate spaces" in Mission control settings, Reduce motion kicks in and it works....but when I want to have "one big space" across all monitors and I uncheck the option - the animation is working again, but it shouldn't.

This is about Finder shortcuts, esp. Command-Shift-A (to open /Applications); not about the Dock, not about Mission Control. When there is already a Finder window for /Applications, and it is minimized, the shortcut will open it instead of creating a 2nd window; but it defeats the intent of a "Shortcut" (to be "faster") if it does a 4-second animation. Because the shortcut incorporates Shift, the Shift triggers slow-motion animation (arghh!). They are slow by design! I can't find a way to disable Finder animation; nor to edit those built-in shortcut keys. In accessibility I have Reduce-Motion selected (from always). No help if I DISABLE Reduce-Motion either. These settings don't help either (suspect 1st only applies to some newer OS-version):

% defaults read com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation
0
% defaults read com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations
1
% defaults read -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled
0

My computer is a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running macOS Monterey 12.7.6. Work-Around: Did find CAN change the keys!: prefs, Keyboard, Shortcuts, App-Shortcuts: Add Finder.app, add entries for menu=Applications etc. But some I tried like Command-F1 STILL became Shift-Command-F1 in Finder. But Control-F1 or Option-Command-A works: did not auto add back Shift. Is it possible to have my Finder shortcuts be fast without engaging the slow dock effect?

I really like the auto-hide feature of the dock in Mac OS X. However, the **animation for the dock to reappear is just a bit too slow** for me. Since this is quite annoying, I disable the feature. > Is it possible to manually shorten the time for the dock > to reappear? Btw: I am aware that one can use the key-combo ⌥⌘D to toggle auto hide/show for the dock. But I want solution without using the keyboard.

Safari 8 [supports](http://caniuse.com/#feat=apng) the [unofficial APNG extension](https://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification) to the standardized PNG format. Most popular image editors (on any platform) do not support APNG (yet). Plugins are mostly available for Windows software only. Searching Macupdate returned nil as well. How can I generate an APNG from a series of still PNGs (not from a video file) on OS X? (Although I understand the file structure, I’m hesitant to do it manually.)

I have a group message where my friends and I enjoy sharing animated GIFs. Sometimes, when one of these stays on screen for a long time, it will eat my CPU and cause my fan to spin up/make noise. I enjoy the GIFs, but in order to keep my fan quiet, I often delete them, which reduces the CPU usage. **I have a hunch that if I could pause the animation, it wouldn't use as much processor power. Is there any way I can do this?** *I'm currently on OS X Yosemite (10.10.3) and using Messages 8.0 (4752)* *Edit by Tetsujin Aug '17* The bounty I'm offering isn't for the same reason as the OP, i.e. CPU, but merely the irritation factor of watching them go round & round & round ... & round...

I have two objects: a circle and a square. There is a connector line connecting these two objects. I want to move the square from one point to another using the action>move animation. However, I want the connector to stay connected during the move animation. Let the connector grow or shrink if required. Is this possible? As a workaround, is it possible to animate just the connector? I want one end to stay fixed in a point, the other end should be moved to a different point.

When I was using IOS 15.6 on my iphone 8, whenever I sent "happy birthday" or "congrats" or "happy new year" to another iphone user, it showed balloons or fireworks on my phone too. However, now after updating my phone to IOS 16.4, sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't. I asked a couple people I sent messages to and they said they didn't see the effects so my guess is if it appears on my phone, it appears on theirs too. If it doesn't on mine, it doesn't on theirs either. What do I need to do to make it appear all the time? Is there a setting on the receiving phone that needs to be set for animated effects to appear on my phone? Do they need to be on the same IOS version as me for the animated effects to work too?

Introduced in macOS Sierra, the user can control how fast the Mission Control animation moves to the “end view”, by how fast the action is performed on a trackpad. I think the default setting is much too slow, and I don't want to overdo the gesture each time just to get better efficiency out of the animation. This 2012 article refers to settings like these: defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0; killall Dock for fast animations, and to reset: defaults delete com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration; killall Dock I have tried them in Sierra and they don't work.

I'm aware of the command https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/33600/how-can-i-make-auto-hide-show-for-the-dock-faster however, I want to be able to use only the command "opt+cmd+d" to hide or show the dock. The reason for this is that I do a lot of editing on programs such as ableton, pro tools, and now will most likely move to davinci resolve, and it's really frustrating to me whenever my mouse needs to use the edge of the screen and the dock shows up. Would greatly appreciate it if someone knows how to actually hide the animation instead of making the dock appear in 0 seconds. Thank you.

I came across this today by accident: If you try to minimise a window in OS X 10.8 (might be in others) while holding down the shift key the window will *very* slowly go into the Dock. The whole animation is slowed. Any ideas what the purpose of this is?

I am using Shortcuts to make GIFs from the sharing menu - which works really great! Sadly I am not able to define in which order the images will be compiled to the GIF. Is there a way? I haven't found anything ...neither on the web or in the Shortcuts command sets. Would be really grateful if there was a solution for this! Cheers!

I searched around on google and did find one answer but it seemed as that only worked for Ubuntu. I'm trying to disable the "maximize" effect of chrome when opening a new window. Chrome is the only app that does this and no other app on my mac has a "maximize" animation for a new window and it's bothering me a ton. Is there any way to disable this animation permanently on macOS? It's super annoying. i tried adding

/Applications/Chrome.app/ --args --wm-window-animations-disabled

to a exec file and running chrome from there. Chrome opens but the new window "maximize" animation is still there. Anyway to fix this?

In macOS 10.15.4+, when you make a window fullscreen, an animation about a second long zooms the window to the new size, and then the window rerenders (for example, a web browser or a Terminal). Can this happen **faster**? System Preferences > Display > Accessibility > Reduce Motion just replaces the animation with a crossfade that is equally slow. Various [answers](https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128717/how-to-disable-full-screen-animation-on-os-x-10-9) for older macOSes are also no faster.

When I try to use transition in Keynote, the slide default color keynote transit to or the slide in the background of transition is always black: Can I change this color?

I wish to turn off all animations in macOS. I'm following the steps provided in the answers to https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-off-all-animations-on-os-x . I wish to turn off animations on my MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 (17D102), but they don't appear to be working. I see no error message or any other message when I run the commands in the terminal. I tried logging out and logging back in but to no effect. How do I troubleshoot this or otherwise find a way to turn off as many animations as possible? Note: I tried these 4 commands provided in the [accepted answer]( https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/63477/215068) to https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/14001/215068 : # opening and closing windows and popovers defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false # smooth scrolling defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool false # showing and hiding sheets, resizing preference windows, zooming windows # float 0 doesn't work defaults write -g NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001 # opening and closing Quick Look windows defaults write -g QLPanelAnimationDuration -float 0