You can be alerted to new notifications on your iPhone via both sounds and vibrations. Vibrations often occur when the iPhone is in silent mode, but can also occur in situations such as emergency alerts. Vibrations can be very useful if your phone is in your pocket, or if you frequently have your phone on silent.
But you might eventually decide that you no longer wish to use the vibration feature to inform you of new notifications, and seek to turn it off completely. You can accomplish this in iOS 9 by disabling the Vibration setting that is found on the Accessibility menu. This will allow you to turn off vibration completely on your iPhone, instead of configuring the vibration setting individually for all of your notifications.
Disabling Vibration on an iPhone in iOS 9
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9. If you haven’t yet done so, then you can upgrade to iOS 9 directly from your device.
Enabling this setting will override any other vibration settings that you have enabled for individual apps or notifications.
- Open the Settings menu.
- Select the General option.
- Tap the Accessibility button.
- Scroll down and tap the Vibration button.
- Tap the button to the right of Vibration to turn it off. The option is turned off when there is not any green shading around the button. Vibration has been turned off in the image below.
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Matthew Burleigh has been writing tech tutorials since 2008. His writing has appeared on dozens of different websites and been read over 50 million times.
After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites.
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