Disable-Mac-Animations

How to turn off all animations on OS X

A compressed code only version of the snippets below can be found in the terminal-commands file. You can copy and paste this straight into terminal. Relanuch finder once done.

To undo:

• Change false values to true
• Change true values to false
• Change -float 0 to -float 1

Credit: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-off-all-animations-on-os-x

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

rubberband scrolling (doesn't affect web views)

• defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -bool false

resizing windows before and after showing the version browser

also disabled by NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001

• defaults write -g NSDocumentRevisionsWindowTransformAnimation -bool false

showing a toolbar or menu bar in full screen

• defaults write -g NSToolbarFullScreenAnimationDuration -float 0

scrolling column views

• defaults write -g NSBrowserColumnAnimationSpeedMultiplier -float 0

showing the Dock

• defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0
• defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0

showing and hiding Mission Control, command+numbers

• defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0

showing and hiding Launchpad

• defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -float 0
• defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -float 0

changing pages in Launchpad

• defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration -float 0

at least AnimateInfoPanes

• defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

sending messages and opening windows for replies

• defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true
• defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true

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Also Reduce Motion