Haptic touch click noise

I couldn't resolve the problem on my iphone12 mini, so I got an iphone 7 instead, and as far as I can tell the difference is that on the iphone 7 there is an option to toggle off 3D touch (or "Haptic Touch" on the newer models), as shown below:

Whereas on the 12 mini and other newer models, the screen for Haptic Touch only allows you to choose "Fast" or "Slow" but not to toggle it off (see screenshot below), which is maddening! You can choose fast or slow but you cannot turn it off. I would have kept my 12 mini if i weren't for this one problem. I don't know why they designed the newer phones this way -- so aggravating!

Darn it, it seems my screen shots didn't post! Go to settings -->general-->accessibility -->haptic touch (or 3D touch). If you can toggle it off, do so. If you can only choose Fast or Slow, then that's the problem as to why the click sound cannot be turned off. :(

"But can’t rule out someone at apple just deciding to add this without a user toggle to turn it off as an ‘improvement’"

This is what I think the problem is.

The reason being that I have ios 14.4 on two other phones (an iphone 7 and a 2nd generation SE), and neither have this problem, and the toggling off of the 3D Touch or Haptic Touch is what resolves the issue. But when I wanted to upgrade to an iphone 12 mini, I couldn't toggle off that feature and hence couldn't turn the clicking off. :(

Although it's possible that it's both a software and hardware issue, and how ios 14 interacts with certain phone models, but it's definitely not a problem with ios 14 itself since I use ios on two phones (including the new 2nd gen SE) and am able to resolve the issue by toggling off the 3D Touch or Haptic Touch feature as described above (settings -->general-->accessibility -->haptic touch (or 3D touch) ).

“it's definitely not a problem with ios 14 itself since I use ios on two phones (including the new 2nd gen SE) and am able to resolve the issue by toggling off the 3D Touch or Haptic Touch feature “

I think that is an ios 14 problem though still - you should be able to turn off the new audible click in ios 14 without having to disable 3D Touch on those phones. Arguably that example is like having to turn off all keyboards to remove keyboard clicks.

That's the problem, unfortunately. That was one of the primary reasons I returned my iphone12 mini and got an iphone 7 instead -- the clicking noise was driving me nuts. On the 7, there is a toggle to turn off Haptic Touch or 3D touch. On the 12 mini and some of the other newer models, there is no toggle, only fast or slow. It's maddening. :(

went to the apple store today. tried out one of their personel's iphone 12 pro which apparently has similar issue (soft click sound when long press (haptic).

the volume when a notification came in suddenly jumped to the highest volume when doing haptic.

I bought an SE some months ago and updated to IOS 14 some months ago. I reset all settings for a small problem.

Then since haptics was vibrating when I press for a long time on an icon, I disabled the vibration. It really annoyed me.

WHILE DESABLING THE ANNOYING VIBRATION > THIS UPSETTING SOUND REPLACED IT.

There is no way to disable it. I updated to IOS 14.4.1 hoping that this sound would disappear... Didn't work.

Either Apple arrange this bug or I will change the phone and never update again.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?

HOW?

Is there someone frome Apple that read this discussion?

So sorry you're dealing with this. I have sensory sensitivity issues, esp with noise, and couldn't tolerate that click noise at all. It was driving me crazy and would have made me miserable, so I had to return my phone (iphoine 12 mini) and downgrade to an iphone 7. I really wanted the camera on the iphone 12 mini, and saved up money to pay for it, then couldn't keep it because of that darn clicking noise that cannot be turned off. I sure hope someone from Apple sees this discussion -- they need to fix this!!

hi, apparently they were not aware of the issue. one of the personnel did not notice that his iphone 12 pro had similar issue with mine since he put his phone in silence mode all the time.

they were shocked but that was it. my iphone 12 is still in my possesion now.

Thanks. I tried this and still get a high pitched click on an iPhone 11 pro with that toggle off although the lower pitched noise made by the vibration obviously stops. Also I think that setting turns all vibration off which isn’t ideal.

I have the same issue tick noise when I use Haptic Touch, it sounds when my iPhone 11pro is in only vibration and I just updated the iOS version to 14.5.1. The noise continues. Please let me know if you know how to fix it. Thanks

Hi. so i brought my iPhone 12 to the apple store because of the haptic feedback issue and the notification rang really loud.

The apple store then told me that they uninstalled and reinstalled the iOS. with this, the issue was gone. My iPhone now behaves correctly. The click sound is still there when doing haptic feedback (long press). However the notification now does not ring loud when long pressing something which triggers haptic.

Hope this could help.

Hi - for me doing those steps (turning off vibration) does not remove the loud click sound on 11 Pro introduced for a long-press action when the phone isn’t in silent mode. It does turn off vibration which I would like to leave on.

I believe this may be a forced bug to motivate a new phone purchase. We know that Apple has crippled older phones to force upgrades. Perhaps this haptic sound thing is something they are doing to annoy people into buying a new phone. I can’t think of any other reason they would force a sound to play when a phone is on silent mode.