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iPhone se won't stop vibrating!

So, my phone started a constant vibrate buzzing, and can't seem to stop it at all, tried turning off in setting, tried hard reset, no avail.

Was hoping someone may have an idea to try or resolution in time before I do a restore as it's extremely annoying and making my fingers numb.


Thanks in advance.

Posted on Dec 3, 2016 2:15 AM

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Posted on Aug 9, 2017 2:12 PM

Mike from Apple helped me with this. You will need to restore your phone to factory settings (be sure to make a backup first and also you will need to turn off "find my phone" feature), then restore your phone from the backup.


Mike ran analytics on the phone and said it was a software issue, not hardware: therefore the wipe and reinstall. Be ready, though: the whole process takes almost an hour.

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Aug 9, 2017 2:12 PM in response to Community User

Mike from Apple helped me with this. You will need to restore your phone to factory settings (be sure to make a backup first and also you will need to turn off "find my phone" feature), then restore your phone from the backup.


Mike ran analytics on the phone and said it was a software issue, not hardware: therefore the wipe and reinstall. Be ready, though: the whole process takes almost an hour.

Dec 3, 2016 2:33 PM in response to Community User

Hi JLF88,


If your iPhone SE will not stop vibrating, and a hard reset did not resolve the issue, try forcing any apps that are running closed then try restarting iPhone normally.


Force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch


Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch​



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Dec 3, 2016 3:18 PM in response to chris_g1

Tried that, no luck. Done a full restore and whenever the phone was powered up at any point, it still done it. After an hour and a half it stopped, but has happened a couple times since, but now the vibrate isn't vibrating as it should, is a lot weaker.

iPhone se won't stop vibrating!

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