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iPhone User Guide

Change iPhone sounds and vibrations

You can change the sounds iPhone plays when you get a call, text, voicemail, email, reminder, or other type of notification.

Haptic feedback is the vibration you feel on your iPhone when you perform some actions, such as when you touch and hold any icon on the Home Screen.

Customize your iPhone sounds and vibrations

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Sounds & Haptics.

  3. Drag the slider below Ringtone and Alerts to set the volume for all sounds.

  4. Tap Haptics, choose the haptics behavior for ringtones and alerts—Always Play, Play in Silent Mode, Don’t Play in Silent Mode, or Never Play—then tap 👁 the Back button
    .

  5. Tap Ringtone, Text Tone, or another option.

  6. Choose a tone.

  7. Tap Haptics, then choose a vibration pattern or tap Create New Vibration to create your own.

You can also change the sounds iPhone plays for certain people. Go to Contacts 👁 Image
, tap a person’s name, tap Edit, then choose a ringtone and text tone.

Turn haptic feedback off or on

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
     on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Sounds & Haptics.

  3. Tap Haptics, then choose an option.

    When Haptics is set to Never Play, you won’t hear or feel vibrations for incoming calls and alerts.

Tip: If you’re not receiving incoming calls and alerts when you expect them, open Control Center, then check whether Do Not Disturb is on. If the Do Not Disturb button 👁 Image
is highlighted, tap it to turn off Do Not Disturb. (When Do Not Disturb is on, its icon also appears in the status bar.)

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