How to turn off fireworks on my phone after texting "Happy New Year" and any future shenanigans? Today is 14-Feb-2021 and I SMS texted &quot;Happy New Year&quot; to someone since it is the Lunar New Year holiday season.
After sending the text message my phone displayed a few second animation of a fireworks display.
Question: How can I turn off this kind of annoying animation shenanigans?
I've already done this: Stop my iPhone from receiving screen shots and other images sent via SMS?
My personal preference is to have a phone that simply does what it's told. Thank you in advance for not telling me that I should &quot;think different&quot;!

messaging myself in order to reproduce the problem:
Go to Settings and then tap on Accessibility. in Accessibility go to Motion. The new pane that opens has a switch to turn off &quot;Auto-Play Message Effects&quot;. Turn this off and that should solve your problem.