iPhone Not Vibrating After Update to ios 17

ive been having this problem since I got my iPhone 15. The accessibility -touch and by turning on vibration worked!! Thank you!!!

Maybe someone from Apple can actually respond w/a legitimate reason as to why this feature ceased to exist? I too have tried every suggestion, no luck. The funny thing is that even though I can no longer feel (or hear) my phone vibrating when it rings, I can actually “hear” a phone vibrating in nearly every movie I watch on tv or movie!! So has it now become something that we can only see that it once existed?

jetworkr wrote:

i have this issue too-- all the old slider switches to turn vibration on/off are gone. i do NOT have an apple watch.

The switch for vibrations is now called "Haptics". You should see it in Settings>Sounds & Haptics>Ringtones & Alerts>Haptics. Tap on that and you can choose from "Always Play", "Play in Silent Mode", "Don't Play in Silent Mode" and "Never Play".

OMendoza11 wrote:

I don't know why I'm helping you, as they were very rude to me the last time I went to the Apple Store. In fact, they scammed me out of 130 euros. However, here I am, helping you, and on top of that, I bought an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Anyway, I hope to help someone because this issue had me desperate.

You're replying to yourself....Does that mean you were rude to yourself before?

If you want to let Apple know how you feel, use the feedback page:

Product Feedback - Apple

I have the same problem. When in silent mode, when I get a text or phone call, for example, the phone has a very minor slight vibrate (lasts about 0.5 seconds) that you don't even feel if the phone is in your pocket, for example. I also don't even hear it if the phone is sitting on my desk (before, I used to). The 'old' regular vibrate was much more pronounced and you couldn't miss it. Seems like Apple goofed big time with iOS17 as everyone I talk to has the same problem with this update. I would have thought Apple would have fixed this after 2+ months and numerous updates.

I already had checked all of the items you listed above as a 'fix' and all are properly set on my iPhone however the vibrate still doesn't work on my iPhone 14 Pro. I do not have an Apple Watch... not sure why that would matter anyway.

I agree. This is a big goof. The very soft, intermittent and brief vibration is way too subtle to be picked up in a pocket while you’re walking or on the desk right beside you. Hope you can fix it in a future OS release or give us the flexibility to change the intensity and duration of the vibration to suit our preferences.

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I get some vibration from certain app alerts. But none from emails, texts or calls - which are critical. I also went through all of these steps and updated to iOS 17.2.1 on iPhone SE. And I set up custom haptics. When making the custom haptics, the phone vibrates. But when receiving messages, the phone doesn’t vibrate. It’s so very frustrating!

Mia_00: This issue is NOT about the sounds not working when we get text messages but is about the vibration of the phone when receiving text messages when the silence button is on. 2 different things. The vibration current in iOS17 is barely existent when we get text messages (when in silent) that we barely hear or feel the vibration. Why won't Apple fix this? Sounds like it's been a bug/flaw since iOS17 went live in Sept. or Oct. It's now 3+ months later. C'mon Apple.. fix this!!

We are now on 17.2.1 and the vibration bug still hasn't been fixed. Is this problem so hard that Apple doesn't know how to or care to fix it? It seems that everyone with model iPhones and iOS 17 has this problem receiving text message notifications when in silent (vibrate) mode. C'mon Apple!!

Apple: you do realize that some of us customers NEED the old vibration function because we can’t hear, right? We are deaf and the old vibrations are simply not noticeable to know when someone is calling. Don’t you have “accessibility” requirements in place for disabled ppl?

This is bad, Apple. I don't think it's a "bug." This is a design feature in iOS 17, and Apple is not reversing it. I'm missing important phone calls and FaceTime calls from family and business. Not cool, Apple. Not cool at all. For the first time since 1984, I need to consider other options. I was an evangelist for Apple when no one took you seriously. I'll give it 30 days to see if you reverse this terrible decision. Sigh.

Can we get an answer that helps. I just had my post deleted instead of my concerns addressed after spending about $5000.

Im a new Apple customer and it’s very obvious to me now why you’re stuck with such a small marketshare despite have superior hardware. 

Instead of telling ALL of us to call apple support just post the solution here. 

I just bought an iPhone 15 Pro Max and no matter what I do it doesn’t vibrate for anything. 

Im sure if somebody had got it working by now there would be at least one post from

someone confirming it works. 

I bought a new iPhone and M3 air and I gotta say apple support and business practices are atrocious. No wonder you’re stuck with such a small marketshare, doing business with you has been very difficult . 

I should have received receipts/invoices in my email for my purchases so I can give them to my accountant. I had to find it posted on some page. Why isn’t everything located on one account page. 

Furthermore after 2 phone calls I have no invoices for my AppleCare+ anywhere for my accountant. 

Third open up your networking hardware to app developers. Your network scanning apps compared to Android are horrible and make working in IT much more difficult.

The haptics on my Apple Watch aren’t working either for text alerts. This is a real problem for D/d/HoH people. Sufficient vibrations from the phone in our pocket or the watch on our arm to notify us of text messages is not a nicety, it is a necessity. Apple has failed us with this.

i have this issue too-- all the old slider switches to turn vibration on/off are gone. i do NOT have an apple watch.