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.
You have the choice to disable all haptics or vibrations on your iPhone. Once you do that, your iPhone won’t vibrate when you get a call, text, email, or app notification. Additionally, there will be no vibration, even for emergency alerts such as earthquakes and tsunamis, or other instances, such as typing or long-pressing an option to bring up the contextual menu.
If this is something you want due to health conditions or personal preference, here are the quick steps to do so in just a few taps.
Completely turn off all vibrations on your iPhone
Open the iOS Settings app, go to Accessibility > Touch, and turn off the switch for Vibration. Moving forward, your iPhone won’t vibrate for anything.
“When this switch is off, all vibration on your iPhone will be disabled, including those for earthquake, tsunami, and other emergency alerts,” reads the feature’s description.
Note that this master switch overrides vibration settings in Settings > Sounds & Haptics. And if you keep your iPhone in silent mode, it won’t play a sound or vibrate. To address this, consider setting your iPhone’s LED flash to blink when a call or notification arrives.
In the future, if you change your mind, return to accessibility settings and turn the switch for Vibration back to the ON position. After you do that, make the most of it by creating and using custom vibration patterns on iPhone or setting up a vibrate-only alarm or timer that makes no sound on iPhone.