Vibrate

Fix vibrations not working for calls, texts, and alerts on iPhone

Image illustration showing iPhone vibrating

Your iPhone vibrates to alert you about incoming calls, texts, and app notifications, making it easier to react when the device is deep in your pocket or set to silent mode.

Similarly, iOS offers haptic feedback throughout the operating system to complement touch input and elevate interactions.

If you aren’t getting any vibrations or haptic feedback from your iPhone, the troubleshooting tips below should help fix that.

Buzz Buzz Lite brings universal haptic feedback to your iPhone for free

Just yesterday, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called Haptify that could make your iPhone exhibit haptic feedback in more places that it would out of the box. While it was indeed a fine tweak, it also came with a price tag, and that’s one of the primary reasons why we’re eager to show you a newly released and free add-on dubbed Buzz Buzz Lite by iOS developer Jax Roth.

Just like Haptify, Buzz Buzz Lite provides a little bit of haptic feedback to many of the actions that you might regularly perform on your iPhone. But it’s worth noting that Buzz Buzz Lite supports several more actions than Haptify did, and that the tweak’s execution is somewhat different as well. We’ll be bringing many of those differences into the light in this piece.