My iPhone will not vibrate on silent after doing the new iOS 17 update

Also make sure you select haptics that you can notice by using the haptics menus within each sound (ringtone, message tone etc). For example for me the synchronised haptics for ringtones were too subtle, once I’d altered the haptic to ‘alert’ I could feel my phone vibrate again when on silent.

To fix this issue I went into accessibility, then touch. Under touch my vibration was set to off. Once I turned that on along with my haptic settings I was able to get my phone to vibrate again on silent.

I managed to get this to work, I'm on IOS 17.1.2

Under "Settings", select "Sounds and Haptics"

Haptics is set to "Always play", (so it vibrates on silent and when off silent)

Select Ringtone

Scroll up to the top of the page where it says "Haptics"

I changed this from Synchronised (default) to one of the standard alerts like "Alert" which gives a stronger vibrate.

Exit from settings and test.

I got haptics to work on silent on 17.1.1. Here’s what I did:

1. Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Haptics > Play in Silent Mode
2. Settings > Sounds & Haptics > scroll down and toggle System Haptics on

Hi, so I stumbled on a solution to this issue. Go to settings, Sound and Haptics, then select Ringtone. Once here, scroll up to Haptics, select and then create a new vibration under custom. Once created, name it and then select this custom haptics as your new vibration mode. Then go back to the Sound and Haptics landing page, select Haptics and then select play in silent mode.

Now once your phone is on vibrate mode, the custom haptics pattern you just made will always vibrate for your phone calls.

Hope this helps…

If you have tired everything else, I found that my individual contacts who had unique ringtones the Hapic option was set to "none". Go into your contacts and go to edit and set ringtone and text tone haptics to default. This fixed the issue for me after trying everything else.

Hope this helps!

To fix this issue I went into accessibility, then touch. Under touch my vibration was set to off. Once I turned that on along with my haptic settings I was able to get my phone to vibrate again on silent.

I had a personal vibrate set, go to sounds and haptics > ringtone > vibration and set default, fixed it for me!

Just tried this from another post and it worked! Go to your ringtones and then haptics. From haptics click on Alert. My phone vibrated on silent after that. Yay original poster!

Go to settings > sounds and haptics > choose ringtone (or one of the others) and scroll to top> choose haptics and make your choice

If you have a Apple Watch make sure it’s on do not disturb

Accessibility > Touch > Vibration (turn on)

So I figured out my watch wasn’t on focus and do not disturb and that’s why my phone wasn’t vibrating and my watch was.

I’m having this issue too. I *may* have figured out how to change it to at least be able to feel the alert/vibration when on silent is I went to settings > sounds & haptics > ringtone> haptics> create new vibration and then held down for a bit and made a different pattern that was more intense and was actually noticeable. I labeled and applied it and we will see. This is otherwise frustrating because I am also missing calls and alerts when I want my phone ringer off and trying to be a little more discrete. Something is not right with this update - but I hope this helps someone for now.

Hey,

Ensure that haptics are not silenced in silent mode. To do this go to settings > sounds and haptics > haptics, and ensure that it is set to “always play”.

Hope this helped.