Learn how to create custom vibration patterns on your iPhone and use them to know who's calling or texting you without even looking at the screen—even in silent mode.
How to create and use custom vibration patterns on iPhone
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Rumor: iPhone 7 will enable more complex tactile vibrations via improved Taptic Engine
Mentioned as a side-note in today's Nikkei report about Apple ostensibly switching to a three-year upgrade cycle for the iPhone is a brief mention of a supposed iPhone 7 enhancement that we haven't seen detailed in prior reports and rumors: a “high-performance motor” that should enable richer tactile vibrations throughout the system.
How to stop your iPhone from vibrating when your alarm rings
By default, any time you set an alarm on your iPhone, it'll vibrate when the alarm goes off. For some people, this is a good way to help get woken up, but for others it's a waste of battery and can be completely annoying to hear that loud vibration on the night stand.
In this tutorial, intended for iPhone users only, we'll be showing you how you can set up an alarm so that your iPhone doesn't vibrate when it goes off.
How to prevent your iPhone from vibrating when it’s on mute
Learn how to stop your iPhone from vibrating when you receive a notification, a text message, or a call—even when muted in silent mode—to reduce distractions.
How to disable all vibrations on your iPhone
Learn how to disable all haptics and vibrations on your iPhone if you don’t want them for incoming phone calls, texts, app notifications, alarms, keyboards, emergency alerts, and everything else.
Calmi: toggle vibration with the silent/ringer switch
I rarely use ringtones with my iPhone. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I've heard my ringtone, because my iPhone stays on silent mode 99% of the time.
Sometimes I find that even the motor from the vibration is too much for me, so I quickly tap the volume buttons to completely silence the phone. Calmi is a jailbreak tweak for people like me. It's a tweak that allows you to turn the ringer/vibrate switch into a vibrate/silent switch.
How to stop your iPhone from vibrating on tables
Don't you just hate it when you place your iPhone on a table, and notifications start going off? You get that annoying buzzing sound, which is the result of the vibration motor pulsating on the hard table surface. Wouldn't it be awesome if your iPhone knew when it was laying on a flat surface, thus disabling the vibration? Well, that's the premise behind MyVibe.
MyVibe is a relatively new jailbreak tweak that's available for $1.99 on Cydia's BigBoss repo. Once installed there are quite a few options that can be configured using the tweak's preference panel. Take a look inside for a video walkthrough showcasing how to use MyVibe, and why it may be beneficial for you.
New app uses iPhone’s vibrate motor to take hands-free 360-degree video
Up until now, if you wanted to shoot 360-degree video with your iPhone, you'd either need a snap-on accessory, like the GoPano, or a pair of steady hands and some patience. But a clever new app is looking to change that.
Introducing Cycloramic, an iPhone app that uses the handset's built-in vibrate motor to spin it around in a circle, allowing you to capture 360-degree video, completely hands free. Hard to believe? Check out the video demo...
Apple researching facial-zooming and quieter iPhone vibration
Apple has applied to patent new technology designed to solve two annoying problems. One filing addresses that "silent" iPhone which you set to "vibrate" but instead noisily dances across tables and other hard surfaces. The other patent application could come in handy for iPhone and iPad mini owners constantly resizing their screens for a better view. However, the most intriguing invention Apple seeks to patent measures the distance of an iDevice owner's face from a screen, using a combination of the camera or other proximity sensor. Differing modes would then automatically adjust the size of content being viewed...
Apple researching new haptic feedback technology
Just hours before Apple unveiled its third-generation iPad this year, a report came out suggesting that the tablet could feature some sort of new haptic "touch-feedback" display.
Obviously, the story never materialized. But as it turns out, Apple is looking into it. The company has had over 4 patents published this year on haptics, including this one...
‘PowerSoundDisabler’ disables your iPhone’s charge alerts
Don't you hate it when it's late at night, and you forget to turn on silent mode before plugging your iPhone in to charge? The audible alert that results seems loud enough to wake up the whole residence!
Sadly there's no native way to totally disable the charging alerts, but don't fret, the jailbreak community has your back.
PowerSoundDisabler is a jailbreak tweak that disables the charging sound and vibration notification whenever you plug your iPhone or other iOS device into a power source.