Disconcerting sliding Prompts at 54

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At Drafts 54, when a Prompt is opened by an action, it slides up from the bottom of the window. Similarly, when it closes, it slides back down. These slides take time (maybe 200 or 300 milliseconds?), slowing things down and causing distraction. The slides occur even when the system accessibility setting Reduce Motion is turned on.

The effect is particularly noticeable when there are successive Prompts, with one replaced by the next, so there is a slide down then a slide up. You can see this by using Move Line Up repeatedly in the action I posted here.

This did not used to happen with Drafts 53. The box containing a Prompt just rapidly popped into existence with barely any visible motion, and vanished immediately when dismissed.

The change seems to be in Drafts itself, independent of the upgrade to iPadOS 27.

Could an option on the new Prompt() call be introduced to return to the Drafts 53 behaviour? Alternatively, could the behaviour please respect the system Reduce Motion setting?

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Same slowness here, iOS 27, Drafts 54.0.2, iPhone 12 Pro.

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Technically, the old and new animations are the same duration. I agree the new ones, which are the system default presentations, feel slower – I think because the previous animation what more positionally stable, allowing your eyes to lock in quicker on the content.

Regardless, I tend to agree they are a problem on iPad and will find a happier medium. It’s getting harder and harder to support custom transitions on the ever increasing array of devices and dramatically different OS versions, so I was trying to see if I could get away with the stock system offering on this one.

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I like the new modals – feel shinier

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I like very much the new animation on 54.0.3. Prompts now look like unfolding pretty fast. Faster than previous releases, it seems.

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Me too! This is great in 54.0.3. Thanks very much for the improvement.