How do I configure my iPhone to vibrate ONLY for phone calls?

I completely see the point here. Sometimes you want your phone to not make a single sound expect a ringtone for actual phone calls. This is why I found this. I have two iPhones. One for work and one personal. I just got the work phone. I want it to not have haptics and sounds for anything but calls. It appears there is no answer other than turning off all other notifications. Which makes my phone something I must to check constantly. I agree with the Apple Watch making it easier, but I already have a Garmin synced to my personal phone. My only option would be to get an Apple watch for my work phone. I’m not going to be the guy wearing two watches. There must be a better way to have your phone only ring for calls. Come on Apple. Please go old school and have a screen that we choose how we want our phone to act. Sounds and haptics has too many options. Set up modes that we can choose depending on where we are. It’d be nice to have a movie, meeting, bike ride etc. option to quickly switch modes between. That’s my only solution I can think of. Open to all options from anyone that can help. Thanks for starting this question.

I want my phone to vibrate from 6:30am to 5:00pm with out having to remember to flip the switch. IOS 17 something iPhone xr . Its important that ringer is on at night, but i only want vibrate during the day. How can a set a focused mode to do that?

Are you asking how to set your phone so that the only notifications you get are from calls? If so, I'd suggest you use Focus. Go to Settings>Focus>Do Not Disturb (or create a new one). Make sure that there are no apps selected in Allow Notifications>Apps. Tap on Allow Notifications>People>Phone Calls>Allow Calls From>Everybody.

You turn the focus on or off through the Control Center. Tap on the circular picture icon on the Focus button to turn it on or off.

I think, if the focus is enabled and you put the phone in silent mode using the button, you should only get vibrating notifications from calls. You could go one step further and buy/create a "silent" ringtone and set that as the default ringtone.

Just to clarify. You have gone into each app and sent them to have no ring/haptic? E.g. Settings>Notifications>Amazon>Sounds>Off?

Sorry, no further ideas. Focus works well for me as, if I don't want to hear a notification, I probably don't want to see it right away, either. Also, I have an Apple Watch which changes a lot about notifications.

Grant4130 wrote:

I want it to not have haptics and sounds for anything but calls. It appears there is no answer other than turning off all other notifications.

Why not use Focus? Go to Settings>Focus>Do Not Disturb (or whichever one you prefer). Tap on "People". Make sure "Allow Notifications From" is checked. Make sure there are no people selected. Under "Allow Calls From", choose "Everybody". Go back and tap on "Apps". Make sure no apps are selected there. Now, when you have Do Not Disturb turned on, you will get calls from anyone but not get any other notifications.

That’s helpful. Much appreciated.

Glad it helped! Focus has more of a learning curve than the old Do Not Disturb but, once you get the hang of it, it's pretty powerful.