I have ios 7.1.2 and I still can't find a way to completely disable the parallax effect but keep animations

Question

I understand that reduce motion disables the parallax effect but it also disables the animations. When I turn perspective zoom off, it keeps the background from moving when I tilt my iPhone but the apps still movie. How do I make the background and the apps stay still but keep the animations? Is there even a way to do that?

Answer 1

In technical support, sometimes you have to make educated guesses. I'm sorry that you were offended.
iTunes does prompt when it is going to erase a device, and the message is clear.
She said in her message that she was able to successfully sync the old ipad. This indicated to me that itunes wiping the data was not an issue, because either it had been setup at the apple store (in which case it doesn't actually wipe the ipad despite saying it will*) (*based on a single case I saw), or because the itunes media folder was migrated.
Furthermore, my solution was to tell her how to backup her ipad (by either doing it manually, or as a last resort, by deleting the corrupt backup -- that she couldn't access anyway.)
I got that last part of the instructions from the "Taking Control of your iphone" book which I found samples of when I did a google search for "corrupted backup itunes".
She marked this as a solution, so it worked for her.