iPhone 15 Pro won't vibrate on Silent Mode

I am just telling you what support just told me. You can provide feedback: Product Feedback - Apple

or contact support yourself: getsupport.apple.com

Maybe they will tell you something different to help us.

It seems there are several things, of which the first three have been repeated several times, but the fourth is what finally fixed it for me.

1. Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Haptics > Play in silent mode
2. Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Ringtone/Text Tone > Haptics > make sure a haptic is chosen instead of none
3. Settings > Accessibility > Touch > make sure Vibration is toggled on
4. Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers > turn this off

I was getting vibrations from my contacts, but not from other callers. With this setting on, all calls from numbers not in contacts skip all rings/haptics/notifications apart from being missed calls and voicemails.

I hope this helps.

https://youtu.be/z5jSfoUxHqg?si=PZ1AA3uBPHPQUX2X

this worked for me

Hey, I might be late on this post but I just received my iphone 15 and I get vibrations for all my notifications. See if when you go to your settings, it looks like this. I truly hope this helps everyone.

I’ve definitely suffered from this for a while. I’ve finally decided to try to figure out what’s causing it and stumbled across this thread.

My hunch is that it was this setting that was the problem.

I’ve turned off the smart schedule now and (it was previously on) and I’m expecting / hoping it will improve.

It would be very helpful if iOS gave some indication of “x number of notifications were silenced automatically” or some such information to users. Then we’d know where to look to disable it.

You can try to contact support yourself https://getsupport.apple.com/ and see what they say. Maybe they will tell you something different. I understand it is very annoying. I just got my iPhone 15 Pro Max today and transferred everything over from my iPhone 12 Pro Max and noticed it. They asked if it had a watch and I do.

If you are told something differently, please let us know!

I’m having the same issues. Spent hours on the phone with teen mobile and a rep from Apple who mirrored my phone and still nothing . They said phone was defected so I got a new and guess what .. yup it’s still happening to the new phone. Get it together Apple ! If this doesn’t get fixed I’m switching ..

After I did the first thing I said and changed that setting, I did this for my messages.

Settings > Messages > Notifications > Sounds > Haptics

Then I chose which one I wanted to vibrate. Works for me when I have it on silent, but I do have an iPhone 15 Plus not the Pro model. So maybe the Pro is different?

Thanks for the response. I do believe they are different. Does the plus still have the side lever that you can flip up or down to silence your phone? The 15 pro and pro max don’t anymore so I’m thinking that’s why we are having this issue …

I was on the phone for over an hour with four different advisors to be basically told to go into a store and rebuild the phone without an iCloud backup to check if it’s software or my backup!

This disgraceful for such an expensive device!

I believe you’re having the same issue as me?

I'm having an issue when you are on silent mode vibration doesn't work on my 15 pro max I have mine set to just badge alerts on my 15PM tho my 14PM worked just fine on iOS 16.7 lol I have done everything setup as new iPhone and changed and played with every setting you can think of..... It will only work if one of the notification banners are on but on iOS 16 i didn't have to have those turned on.

I just got the iphone 15 pro today, have had same issues. I updated to newest IOS 17.0.3, Ive restarted a million times, checked all the settings listed above as well as more I Googled, the only thing that will allow the vibrate is having 1 of the 3 banners turned on as others above mentioned (THANK YOU!) Not that I want this on but its better than nothing until Apple fixes this! Sorry but for this price thing should be flawless!

***I HAVE AN EASY SOLUTION*** I have a fix it’s annoying for those of us who HATE getting banners for text alerts but however the banner NO LONGER shows previews of the message content. It just says contact name on top of iMessage or Text Message. So you go to messages or notifications, TURN ON Banner Notifications, pick your sound & haptic and that’s it! Idk why it took us all this long myself included(I’ve been a District Manager for a wireless provider the last 9yrs) to figure this out!! My Apple Representative didn’t even have a fix but you know what he did have? The SAME EXACT ISSUE on his 15 Pro. I’ve also seen a ton of 15 Pro Max come back into the store lately bc if the phone isn’t 30days old & it messes up we swap it out for the customer. But anyway they’ve recently started developing TERRIBLE SCREEN BURN! Especially those who use their device to game hours on end nonstop or playing whenever you can for however long throughout the day.

I had the same problem and was going crazy. I went through every comment and tried everything. No avail. Then I randomly looked at the settings on my messages with my girlfriend only to find out I had accidentally pressed “hide alerts”. Turned it off and now I get all of her messages!