iPhone vibration pattern different from setting

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frazier52000 Author

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iPhone vibration pattern different from setting

I've always had my iPhone set to vibrate twice (staccato) for incoming text messages and once (quick) for incoming email. I've changed nothing, but either since I've upgraded to iOS 8 or upgraded to the iPhone 6, now my iPhone always vibrates twice whether I'm receiving an email or a text. This is annoying because I can no longer tell what type of notification I have without looking at the screen. The settings are still set to the defaults--Text: Staccato; Mail: Quick. I've tried changing the mail vibration to staccato and then back to quick and that didn't work; it's still vibrating twice for emails. I tried reseting the phone back to factory settings but it's still not working. I even made a custom vibration pattern that's just one quick vibration and set that for email but it's still vibrating twice. I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem so I'm assuming it's not an iOS 8 glitch. I'm having no other issues with the phone. Any idea as to what's causing this issue and how to fix it?

Posted on Oct 1, 2014 8:59 PM

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Answer 1

Ralph9430

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Oct 1, 2014 9:02 PM in response to frazier52000

I'm not sure what is causing the unusual behavior but perhaps resetting your phone cure the problem. Press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button continuously until the Apple logo appears. Then release the button and let the device restart. You will not lose data doing this. It's like a computer reboot.

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frazier52000 Author

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Oct 1, 2014 9:04 PM in response to Ralph9430

Oh, I forgot to mention the soft reset was the first thing I tried.

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Answer 3

Oct 2, 2014 6:10 AM in response to frazier52000

I would like to add that I am having the same issue.

Regardless of the vibration pattern I chose I get notified with two short vibrates.

I cannot tell which email or text coming in.

Iphone 6 128GB on 8.0.2 software

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meilom

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Oct 3, 2014 5:48 AM in response to frazier52000

You are definitely not alone with this. Same problem here with iPhone 6 64GB and iOS 8.0.2. Hope this gets resolved!

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Answer 5

Oct 6, 2014 6:39 PM in response to frazier52000

I thought I was taking crazy pills. I asked another iOS8 user on a 5S and they said they weren't experience it (using the default vibration patterns too). So I assume this is tied to iPhone 6 specifically.

The test is pretty simple, turn on the default patterns, put your phone on vibrate, send yourself an e-mail, and you'll get a double vibration that matches the staccato vibration that is used for text messages when the notification comes in.

This seems to only happen when you allow the notification to come in while the phone is in standby, versus refreshing Mail, as refreshing mail does the correct long single vibration.

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frazier52000 Author

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Oct 7, 2014 5:52 AM in response to mbaumbach

Yeah, this must be an iPhone 6 problem, as I tried restoring my phone's software in iTunes and it's still not vibrating as it's set to.

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frazier52000 Author

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Oct 7, 2014 2:28 PM in response to frazier52000

Maybe restoring and setting up as a new iPhone instead or restoring from backup would be the only way to fix this? I don't want to do this though if it's a known Apple issue and they're working to fix it in the next iOS update. It seems, though, that if everyone with the iPhone 6 was having this problem there would be more complaints online...

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Answer 8

Oct 8, 2014 1:44 PM in response to frazier52000

Having the exact same problem (iPhone 6VZW, iOS 8.0.2). guessing this a software glitch. I replicated the quick vibration with a custom, short one and that seemed to solve the issue for now.

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meilom

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Oct 12, 2014 2:23 AM in response to frazier52000

I just discovered something: I've set the vibration pattern to the alert pattern (which is longer than short), and now when I get an e-mail my iPhone vibrates one time short and one time long. Maybe thats a clue for Apple to fix this!

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Answer 10

Oct 21, 2014 8:40 AM in response to szbenjaman

Ignore my last post. The custom vibration did not solve the issue and unfortunately it doesn't look like it was addressed in 8.1

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Answer 11

Ryan007

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Oct 21, 2014 8:48 AM in response to meilom

I have a similar problem.

On thing that seemed to work was, creating a custom vibration pattern. I created a single, longer vibration, and then set new e-mails to that, and that seemed to address the issue.

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Answer 12

Oct 21, 2014 9:22 AM in response to frazier52000

Contacted Apple and finally found a solution that works! (FYI, I'm currently running ios8.1)

Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

This will not delete your data, but you will lose your network passwords, finger prints, and passcode (which can easily be reset). Once I reset all settings, the 'quick' vibration started working again.

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Answer 13

Oct 22, 2014 2:37 PM in response to frazier52000

Today I went into Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

and the single vibration for new mail messages was working for several hours and then it started to vibrate twice again so unfortunately, Resetting All Settings didn't work for me. I'll keep researching to see if there are any other possible solutions.

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bergie21

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Oct 25, 2014 4:00 PM in response to frazier52000

I have this problem as well, although its not consistent. I am also having a problem where sometimes a text or an email doesn't make sound, just vibrates. Running iPhone 5s iOS 8.1

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Answer 15

Oct 28, 2014 10:35 AM in response to frazier52000

My iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1 does the same thing. It will not vibrate as I have it set. It will only vibrate twice for incoming mail. Very frustrating.

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