Why is my iPhone 15 Pro Max not vibrating on silent mode?

I came to this thread for the same problem on my husband's new 15 pro max. I had all the settings adjusted properly with successful vibrations on silent with alerts from Instagram, Facebook messenger, etc. But when I would text or call him, it would NOT vibrate. I finally found out in his settings for me through his contacts app, there was a custom ringtone with vibration set to "None." After I adjusted that, my alerts to him came through with vibration on silent. Just wanted to add that slight possibility for someone else having issues too.

THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭

wassim257 wrote:

I figured it out. Go under sounds and haptics and then, go to ringtone and see if “Haptics” on top of the page is turned on. Mine said none, so then I chose default. It will work in silent mode after you do that.

Just like I posted 3 months ago, at the top of this page.

Dear friends,

For dual sim users you need to enable this for both your sims otherwise haptics wont work for both

hope this helps😊

Changing the hepatic ring tone doesn’t change how the phone vibrates from side to side. The phone doesn’t vibrate in a 360 degrees pattern, it only vibrates side to side, edge to edge. There is no hepatic feedback from the flat surfaces! If the phone is sitting on a flat surface or siting in your pocket, it won’t be heard or felt!!!

I just followed the steps described above to set the vibration haptics and it worked. I have iPhone 12 with IOS 18.2. I went to settings-sound/haptics-ringtone-then in ringtone, scroll up and haptics is on top(well, on my phone anyway). Mine was set to default but I see options to change vibration type and see the None option at the bottom of the list.

My phones vibration is faint, I think that’s why I thought it wasn’t vibrating. I’ll play around with different types and see if it’s more noticeable.

Question-at the top of the Sound/Haptics menu there is a ringtone alert volume. Maybe that affects the vibration amount? Not sure.

I just discovered that it was my new cover/case with a magnetic wallet to it. When I removed the wallet from the cover/case, vibration came back. When I put the wallet back on the cover/case, vibration disappeared again. Try this, if you have a similar cover/case.

i just fixed this issue on my iPhone by following these steps:

1. Go to “Settings”

2. Go to “Sound & Haptics”

3. Make sure that while selecting your Ringtone, Text Tone, Reminder Alerts etc. the respective “Haptics” option is set to anything other than “None” and “Synchronised (Default)”

Voila! Your iPhone will now vibrate even on Silent mode 😃

I know this is an old thread, but just to help anyone else who had this same issue and went through all of the responses and did the items listed with no luck - just as I did - I found a fix that worked for me that I didn't see listed here yet, here is what worked for me!

1. Go to Settings
2. Go to General
3. Scroll down to Transfer or Reset iPhone
4. Click Reset
5. Click Reset All Settings

This will NOT reset your entire phone, just your settings. It will take a few minutes to complete and will require you to set up Apple Intelligence and Siri again. After doing this, I set my phone back to Silent and made sure the vibration was turned on both in Sounds and Haptics as well in Accessibility > Touch > Vibration. That fixed it right up for me - I hope this helps someone else who is having the same issue!

your post is not very clear and I didn’t see it, but I appreciate your help!

Phone wasn't vibrating when getting texts turns out certain contacts had “hide alerts” on. No idea why the iPhone 15 is new but I turn those off and it worked for me afterwards

Thank you so much for your input! It was very helpful

when you are at the screen to select a ring tone or a notification tone there is a option on the top of the screen “Haptics”, which is given to select a specific style for your current ring tone to active haptic vibration while ringing or getting notifications. After you select a pattern it will activate to run with your current ring tone.

Absolutely

i did the same

accessibility

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then vibrate

Thanks. This finally worked for me