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Currently when a user has their OS configured to reduce motion, we completely disable the animations of progress indicators. This appears to be confusing so instead we slow down their animations.

Fixes #31265.

crisbeto added 3 commits July 17, 2025 09:47
Adds a function that provides more granular information about why animations are disabled.
…pping them

Reworks the progress bar to slow down its animations, instead of fully stopping them when `prefers-reduced-motion` is enabled. Stopping the animations completely appears to be confusing for users.
… stopping them

Reworks the progress spinner to slow down its animations, instead of fully stopping them when `prefers-reduced-motion` is enabled. Stopping the animations completely appears to be confusing for users.
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@crisbeto crisbeto added target: patch This PR is targeted for the next patch release merge: preserve commits When the PR is merged, a rebase and merge should be performed labels Jul 17, 2025
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I kinda like the slow version more than the normal one =P Makes me wish we actually had an input for the speed

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@crisbeto crisbeto merged commit 062c5eb into angular:main Jul 17, 2025
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The changes were merged into the following branches: main, 20.1.x

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Minimal Animation for mat-progress-bar and mat-progress-spinner in indeterminate Mode with prefers-reduced-motion Enabled
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