Some individuals are cursed with movement illness, which can make it difficult to check out or utilize a phone in a moving car without suffering waves of queasiness. There’s a remarkably basic technique that can make mobile phones functional in such circumstances. Apple released it on the iPhone a number of years earlier, and now Google’s own variation is lastly coming (gradually) to Android.

Movement illness is brought on by a dispute in between what your inner ear senses and what your eyes see. If you’re taking a look at a book or a screen while in an automobile, the sensory inequality can cause a quite undesirable time. As part of iOS 18 in 2024, Apple launched a function called Motion Cues that puts a network of moving dots on the screen to reduce movement illness, and it appears to work remarkably well. Google’s variation is comparable, however it’s called Motion Assist.

Google started checking Motion Assist back in 2024, however it never ever broadened beyond an internal test previously. Android Authority reports Motion Assist is appearing on Pixel phones running Android 17, however there’s no app or upgrade you can set up to get the function– it’s being provided by Play Services as part of a staged rollout.

When triggered, Motion Assist includes little dots around the edges of your phone screen over top of the material. It plugs into your phone’s accelerometer and gyroscope, enabling the dots to relocate performance with the movement of the automobile; they take a trip down the screen while the car is progressing, to the left when turning right, and so on. They essentially simulate the method items in the real life would move through your vision if you weren’t glued to the screen. Here’s how Apple’s variation works.