Apple Watch Series 7 Stops Vibrating

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

This is only a temporary fix. This happened to me Monday this week. Restarted everything, unpaired and re-paired. It worked Tuesday and Wednesday.

Today overslept yet again. Phone and watch showing an alarm going off but no vibrations nothing. Phone was in sleep mode. Watch up until this week has always vibrated to wake me up. Verified that the watch was not on silent.

Really shouldn’t have to restart or do the pairing process every few days just to have a reliable alarm.

I’m going to try using the regular alarm and not the sleep alarm to see if it works. Other alarms throughout the day set via the alarm app work fine on my watch.

I have exactly same issue! I even brought the watch to the Apple Store and they replaced it with a new one but after setting it up (as a new device) problem still occurs. It’s really frustrating. I called support as well suggesting that it might be a software issue but they said I should bring it back to the store for another repair but until then they can’t investigate it as they need to see a pattern that multiple repairs failed which seems quite ridiculous to me.

I too have this issue, just had to restart for the third time today. The vibration and noise stops to the extent that alarms don't go off, and items such as the solar watch face doesn't give haptic feedback with use of the crown.

Running watchos 8.6 19t572

It's the same for series 5. After last update alarms in bedside mode have no sound or vibration.

Like one user said, it's really messing up my life. And it's the first time an Apple product is doing so!

:-(

This is still an issue in watchOS 8.7. I missed a wakeup alarm this morning 😡. All vibration and haptic feedback came back after a reboot of the watch.

I'm going to submit feedback via Product Feedback - Apple as I don't believe Apple reviews the forums for possible bugs.

This has happened to be 3 times since I got my Series 7 watch. It never happened on my Series 3 or series 5 Apple Watches (but it might be a new Watch OS issue and not hardware issue). I haven't used an audible alarm since I bought my first FitBit about 10 years ago. My big fear is that I will miss a plane flight because of this. Setting extra alarms doesn't help, because none of them work when this problem occurs. A restart of the watch has fixed it every time, but it's unpredictable.

I wonder if it could be tied to a low battery level. If you drop to about 5% of battery life, put it on the charger, but take it off at 65% (because you are going to sleep), might it be in a low power mode and was waiting until it got to 100% to turn that off? I haven't tried to force this condition to test it.

I am having the same problem here, and restarting the Apple Watch 7 could temporary solve it, but eventually it would stop vibrate at some time later on, I am hoping Apple could look into the issue seriously and solve it permanantly.

I am having the same problem! New apple watch, suddently alarm stopped working yesterday. I overslept from my work. My old watch never had this problem.

my old iphone used to have this problem as well. It would make no sound and not vibrate when the alarm went off. Apple needs to fix this asap.. it’s messing with peoples life. I dont like not being able to trust my alarms.

The same thing happens to me, I believe it has something to do with when I put my phone in do not disturb or sleep mode. I have my watch mirror my phone but sometimes after taking my phone off of one of those moods, my watch will stop vibrating. Very annoying. Restarting helps but by the time I've noticed, I've missed notifications and alarms

I just purchased a new Series 7 Apple Watch and the vibration feature stopped working also. I've tried restarting it and while the vibration may work for sometime, it reverts back to no vibration for notifications, calls, alarms, etc. Apple needs to fix this problem ASAP.

I have the same issue. Apple Watch Series 7. It has happened for two days so far. I missed both morning alarms. I dont feel the vibration during calls and it’s frustrating. Restarting fixes the issue temporarily. This must be a bug.

Same here. Series 7. I never know when it’s going to fail. I got to work late on the last two days. This is a deal breaker. Apple should fix this asap. I’ll be making posts to make sure people think twice before buying. This is a deal breaker. A device that screws up your alarms can get you fired or make you lose flights and your vacation.