How to Turn On/Off Vibration on iPhone

Aug. 7, 2024

Haptics feedback or vibration is a handy feature that ensures your iPhone alerts you discreetly. There can be situations when you may choose to turn on the vibration on your iPhone so you don’t miss any important calls ormessageseven if your iPhone is in Silent Mode. Also, you may sometimes choose to turn off the vibration so that nothing distracts you while you’re working on an important project. Whatever the situation, you must know how to toggle those vibrations. Fortunately, doing this is super easy and quick. Read on to learn how to turn on or off vibration on your iPhone.

Turn Vibration On/Off on iPhone

On an iPhone, vibrations (Haptics) are integrated into three things-Ring/Silent switch, typing, and general system settings. You can easily turn on or off all these vibrations on your iPhone by going to theSettings app. The process is super easy and requires only a few taps. Here’s what you need to do:

If you wish to turn on or off vibration on your iPhone for all incoming calls, alerts, system controls, and interactions, simply turn on/off theSystem Hapticstoggle.In case you don’t want your iPhone to make any vibrations, not even the ones triggered by system controls, you can turn this toggle off.

When you’re here, you can enable or disable vibrations when typing. For this, tap onKeyboard Feedbackin theSound & Hapticssectionand you can turn on/off theHaptictoggle as per your liking.

If you want to turn off the vibration on your iPhone for all alerts, you can also do it in the Accessibility settings. Here are the steps to do it:

This will disable all the vibrations on your iPhone, including those for tsunamis, earthquakes, and other emergency alerts. For safety reasons, we recommend keeping this feature on.

If your iPhone won’t vibrate when you get a call, you may have turned off the vibration on your iPhone. To make sure your iPhone vibrates when you get a text or a call, go to Settings -> Sound & Haptics -> Haptics and make sure you haven’t chosen Never Play. If you often keep your iPhone in Silent mode, you must select Play in Silent Mode.

Go to Settings -> Sound & Haptics -> Keyboard Feedback and enable Haptic to turn on vibration for typing.