Simulator slow-motion animations are now on?

Asked 24/12, 2011 at 12:29 Answered 18/4, 2022 at 4:25

Solved ios xcode cocoa-touch ios-simulator

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A while ago I was experimenting, trying to see if i could get navigation items to animate and scroll between each other.

I don't know if this is related but suddenly without touching the simulator options I'm getting this message Simulator slow-motion animations are now on and moving between views is very slow, like 3 seconds. This occurs with all animation effects.

Any idea what I need to do to stop this ?

Marutani answered 24/12, 2011 at 12:29 Comment(5)

The shortcut changed to ⌘T in Xcode 6. – Appreciative 2/9, 2014 at 17:8

As of Xcode 8.2.1 and simulator version 10.0, Slow Animations increases animation duration by a factor of 10. A 1 second animation will take 10 seconds with Slow Animations enabled. – Rhodonite 11/5, 2017 at 20:1

I wonder why they have even made this random feature. – Byword 12/10, 2017 at 20:45

Probably to debug animations and watch them slowly to ensure they do exactly what they should – Chaste 20/12, 2017 at 0:44

Go to emulator from above menu debug>slow animations (command + T) – Visible 27/12, 2017 at 6:30

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The shortcut as of Xcode 6 is Command ⌘+T. This toggles it between on and off, so to turn it off just punch that combination.

Desai answered 24/12, 2011 at 12:33 Comment(17)

So you don' think that its something that will have affect on release code ? – Marutani 24/12, 2011 at 12:46

Could it be that if he's using a beta, he could have pressed shift 3 times and accidentally activated it? – Foreleg 25/12, 2011 at 7:44

@CodaFi: I didn't know about that! I'll have to try it. – Desai 25/12, 2011 at 11:15

I must admit, I hadn't heard about it either, but when I researched his problem, another thread on SO mentioned that beta simulator builds toggled that animation with a triple shift click. Later posts say it was disabled... – Foreleg 26/12, 2011 at 6:29

This is triggered by triple-tapping Shift, but I occasionally see it triggered when I definitely haven't tapped Shift three times in a row without hitting other keys. – Orlop 2/2, 2012 at 18:13

I triggered this by accident when validating field entry with strings like "'"''"'"'""'" which is a combo of shift+quote and just quote but obviously it was the shift key being repeated 3 times in rapid sucsession regardless of what other key is pressed. – Antimissile 2/7, 2012 at 22:44

Hold down Command ⌘ and Shift ⇧, press Key H twice, you will see the slow-motion is turn off – Sicyon 22/9, 2012 at 12:15

This worked for me. I don't do iOS development, so I'm just curious: is this feature actually useful? – Busterbustle 17/10, 2012 at 6:39

Definitely can be useful for troubleshooting to see your animations in slow-mo, but not very often. I keep getting this activated by mistake when I using the keyboard to simulate a press of the home button. It's very annoying! Is there a way to prevent it from going into slow-mo mode? – Transient 17/10, 2012 at 16:17

even more annoying, is that it can be turned on for the springboard and turned off for your app ... – Continuator 26/3, 2013 at 14:59

@Undo: Noooooo anything but the arrow icon :( – Desai 7/6, 2013 at 19:14

@Desai New Apple keyboards don't have the arrow icon - it might have been confusing :) – Hell 7/6, 2013 at 19:15

@Undo: Oh, that's fair. Even my white MacBook from 2010 lacks the icon. – Desai 7/6, 2013 at 19:16

nd i was reseting my simulator again and again :D – Meraree 13/9, 2016 at 14:56

use save my life bro. I tried restart the simulator, restart the xcode and even update the xcode :D – Tablespoon 6/11, 2017 at 1:11

Sure was nice of them to use the same hotkey for opening a new Xcode or browser tab, allowing me to turn this on by accident and assume that Apple just shipped a simulator bug that they didn't feel like fixing. – Englacial 14/1, 2019 at 21:30

As of XCode 11 this is no longer the shortcut, I cant seam to find if there is one at all. – Multicolored 28/2, 2020 at 11:27

Just figured this out:

You can toggle slow-motion animations on and off by pressing Shift three times in succession while the iOS Simulator is in focus.

Maureen answered 12/1, 2012 at 19:28 Comment(3)

No wonder, I had no idea how this was getting turned on sometimes. – Esmeralda 11/5, 2012 at 23:2

It also triggers if you hold Shift and press Cmd twice. – Tailspin 21/5, 2012 at 6:52

Wow, this is probably the dumbest, most unintuitive, 'why is this happening?' keystroke I've ever come acrossed. Apparently I hit the shift key a lot because I seem to accidentally toggle this (incredibly useful when I actually want it) feature constantly. – Axes 6/3, 2013 at 19:53

In the simulator at the top bar, go to Debug

Slow Animations and check it off or on.

Nothing to it.

Conventioneer answered 19/10, 2015 at 17:50 Comment(1)

⌘+T doesn't seem to be a shortcut for me. But the debug option did the trick! – Edan 20/10, 2019 at 1:23

because there's no home button in the iPad simulator since iOS 5.0, we need a key combination (shift+command+h), which may activate slow motion. This glitch keeps happening to me, and quite annoying.

Watanabe answered 31/3, 2012 at 15:22 Comment(4)

I hate this too! I wish there was a way to turn off slow animations forever. – Mali 12/2, 2013 at 3:38

Oh, yeah. Command-Shift-h. That's what's doing it. I knew I wasn't hitting the shift key three times. Thanks! – Accusation 1/8, 2013 at 22:31

It's actually just Command-Shift. If you hit them simultaneously, then it toggles slow animations. Very annoying. – Ragan 10/8, 2013 at 19:2

it is happening to me all the time, when I press CMD-Shift-H to press the Home button. Especially annoying since the home button does not show up on my simulator due to my super shallow iMac screen – Byington 2/1, 2014 at 19:31

I ran into this same problem, and it seems that now the shortcut is ⌘+T to toggle it on any app that you're running. If you're on the home screen it should toggle all of the base OS animation speeds.

Subreption answered 22/7, 2014 at 13:51 Comment(0)

In Xcode 11, the shortcut `command + T` didn't work for me.

To solve it:

Open simulator
Click on the debug menu
deselect "Slow Animations" from the menu.
Done

Brooder answered 14/11, 2019 at 9:58 Comment(1)

The shortcut in Xcode 11 has been removed, but the feature is still usable through the debug menu at the top – Keenankeene 25/1, 2020 at 12:7

One reason this keeps happening to me is I use a VNC viewer to remotely work on my Mac mini, and it defaults to sending repeated keypresses whenever any key (including shift) is held down.

So even though "I" am not pressing shift multiple times, if I use the physical keyboard to enter text, then just holding shift down long enough to type a few letters results in the Mac seeing it multiple times and toggling the slow animations.

One work around is to not use the physical keyboard, but instead always "type" using the mouse to select letters on the simulators pop-up keyboard.

Graeae answered 14/5, 2013 at 15:53 Comment(0)

When simulator is open, simulator window show 6 commands including file, edit, hardware, debug, window and help.

Just click on Debug and the first position is stop animation window + T command is use for it.

If the slow animation is checked then simply unchecked it.

Dagoba answered 1/6, 2018 at 12:33 Comment(0)

I couldn't fix it with triple shift, or triple home.

Could not fix via Debug->Toggle Slow Animation either.

Instead, you can reset the whole damn thing: iOS Simulator -> Reset Content and Settings.

Note that I had 2 problems.. slow motion inside the app (which was toggled by the debug->toggle menu) and slow motion when I switch between apps, aka "everything". I was only able to fix the global slow mo by resetting.

Guthry answered 21/7, 2014 at 21:11 Comment(0)

On 5.1 it can be toggled by hitting Shift twice, just like we do double-click on mouse.

Easley answered 11/5, 2012 at 22:14 Comment(3)

actually, it's three times. See below. – Phony 14/6, 2012 at 0:44

@Flaviu, it worked for by hitting Shift twice. I verified it again. – Easley 16/6, 2012 at 13:15

Silly iOS dev tools. Mine definitely only works if you hit it three times. oh well. – Phony 17/6, 2012 at 15:12

The shortcut as of Xcode 10.3 is Command ⌘+T. This toggles it between on and off, so to turn it off just punch that combination. And run your project again.

Luger answered 24/9, 2019 at 5:14 Comment(0)

Here is the shortest way to close the slow animation in Simulator!

Step 1: Open the Simulator.

Step 2: On the left top of the window you'll find Debug in some of the options.

Step 3: Under Devices, you'll see an option ( Slow Animations ) is checked, Just Uncheck it !!

Done . :]

Mangosteen answered 18/4, 2022 at 4:25 Comment(0)

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