My iPhone Silent button is not working

Go into setting and you’ll see “action button.” Just scroll to the action you want to use and back out. Should fix the issue.

same for me. silents button not working, nothing. 16 pro Max

Assuming you haven't changed what the Action button does on your iPhone, long-press the Action button (you should feel the haptic feedback emit three pulses). To confirm that your iPhone 16 is silenced, short press the Action Button. A "Silent" icon should appear in the Dynamic Island to signal the change.

Hope this helps.

My iPhone 16pro silent button no longer causes the silent on/off action to display. The island window (top middle of the home phone screen) remains black. It used to work fine. Tried a restart, silt the toggle in settings and the action button. All no-go.

Does nothing. Mine goes to camera and that is it

Holding that upper left button for an extended period doesn’t garner any result for me at all???

It did it for me. Thanks so much.

My iPhone 16 does not ring for medical appointments or anything I have set it for LOUD and vibrate. How can I fix ? I check for silent I DONT feel it in pocket!!!

Same as mine I regret upgrading this is the worst phone yet. iPhone 14 was the best they should have stopped changing things

Thank you

Thank you! It worked...yeaaahhhh

Update: After further playing around with the Action button including longer press, and turning the silence toggle on/off in sound & haptics, the silence mode reappeared in the island window. I’m not exactly sure what combo produced the result, but glad it reappeared.

no any three pulses feeling, after long-press of the action button. However silent icon appears and signalling the changes

Did you do as recommended above?