The Auto-animate option lets you create an animation between two screens. Any slight or larger differences in their designs regarding an object's transformations (in position, size, etc.) and opacity to 'tween' will be interpolated over the given time. And you can use several options for ease-in and/or ease-out.

Adobe Help: Auto-animate in XD

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