Whether you're in a quiet or noisy environment, turning on your iPhone's vibrate mode can help alert you to incoming calls and texts. You can enable vibrate mode while your iPhone is silenced or in addition to a ringtone. Here’s how to set iPhone to vibrate when receiving calls and texts.
What to Know
- Vibration settings on an iPhone can be found in Sounds & Haptics in Settings.
- You used to be able to turn on a setting called Vibrate on Ring or Silent. You can now find those settings under Haptics.
How to Make Your iPhone Vibrate for Incoming Calls & Texts
For a long time, this feature was referred to as "vibrate," but Apple now calls it Haptics, which can be confusing if you're looking to make the iPhone vibrate. You can still change vibration settings under Haptics in Settings. Here's how to put your phone on vibrate mode via the Settings app.
- On your iPhone, tap Settings.
- Tap Sounds & Haptics.
- Tap Haptics.
- From here, you can select haptics to Always Play anytime your iPhone receives an alert.
- You can choose to have it Play in Silent Mode to make sure your iPhone will vibrate while silenced.
- Alternatively, you can choose to have your iPhone not vibrate in silent by tapping Don't Play in Silent Mode.
- And lastly, if you never want your iPhone to vibrate whether silenced or not, select Never Play.
Now you can easily set your iPhone to vibrate with alert tones, while silenced, or both. For more notification tips, consider signing up for our free Tip of the Day newsletter.
FAQ
- How do I make my iPhone vibrate on silent? When you go into Haptics in the Settings app under Sounds & Haptics, make sure to tap Play in Silent Mode to ensure that your iPhone will vibrate while on silent.
- How to make vibration stronger on iPhone? Haptics are different depending on the alert it accompanies. To change or alter each notification type's vibration pattern, you'll need to change each one at a time under Sounds & Haptics settings. However, there's no clear way to simply increase the intensity of a vibration, but you can change the pattern or even make up your own.
- What does haptic mean on iPhone? According to Apple, haptics are the vibrations you feel after performing certain actions on certain models, including touch feedback, call and text vibrations, and notification alerts.
That's all there is to it! Next, find out why your Apple Watch is vibrating but not showing notifications.