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frazier52000 Author

Level 1

12 points

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

33 replies

jmgathg

Level 1

9 points

Mar 5, 2015 7:39 AM in response to frazier52000

I found a work around that works for me. I set up a new vibration alert for texts of three short vibrations. Now when it vibrates 3 times I know it's a text.

Apr 22, 2015 10:59 PM in response to frazier52000

I Think I have found the issue! The problem is that there are more than one place to add custom vibration and or tone to you email or anything. One (the main one) is found in (you guessed it) settings>general>sounds. BUT... Adjustmnets can also be made in "notifications". Settings>general>notifications. Hopefulily this helps! Good luck!!

Jan 18, 2016 7:57 AM in response to szbenjaman

I can confirm that this solution was the only thing that worked for me. I have an iphone 5s as well as my wife has an iphone 6s and this issues happened on both of the phones. Once I reset the phone I had to reenter my wifi settings as well and all accounts that required username and password but at least now when someone sends me a message I have sounds and when it is set on vibrate it vibrates. Thanks...

iPhone vibration pattern different from setting