Haptics has been part of smartphones for as long as they’ve been in existence. If you own an iPhone, you may feel your device vibrate on several occasions like when you receive a call, get a notification, unlock your phone, and perform other system actions. If you’ve updated your iPhone recently, you may have started noticing that your device now vibrates even when you’re typing with the on-screen keyboard.

In this post, we’ll explain why this happens and how you can turn off the keyboard and other vibrations on your iPhone. 

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For years, Apple’s native keyboard didn’t offer Haptic feedback when users typed on their iPhones. The only kind of feedback that users could enable was keyboard clicks which could be heard when keys were tapped on the on-screen keyboard. With iOS 16, Apple has added a Keyboard Feedback option on iPhones, which can be configured to vibrate your device whenever you type on the native keyboard. 

This is why you may have started noticing your keyboard vibrate every time you touch a key during typing after the iOS 16 update. If you own an iPhone 8 or newer device, Keyboard Feedback may be enabled by default but you can always choose to turn it off if you prefer to type with no feedback. 

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You can turn off keyboard vibration on your iPhone at any time on iOS 16. Since keyboard haptics is only available on iPhones running iOS 16, you will only be able to use the steps as long as you’re using iOS 16, not on older iOS versions. 

To turn off the keyboard vibration, open the Settings app on the iPhone. 

Inside Settings, select Sounds & Haptics.

On the next screen, tap on Keyboard feedback.

If you see the Haptic option enabled, turn off the Haptic toggle on this screen. 

Haptic feedback will now be disabled on your iPhone. Whenever you interact with your keyboard now, you won’t feel vibrations during typing or when making swipe gestures.

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If the keyboard isn’t the only aspect of your iPhone you want to remove vibrations from, you can turn vibrations for different elements of your iPhone by following the steps below. 

Your iPhone lets you configure individual ringtones for different types of alerts and along with that, you can also change the way your device vibrates for each of these alerts. Using iOS settings, you can customize the way your phone vibrates when you receive calls, text messages, voicemails, emails, reminders, and other things. If you don’t want your iPhone to vibrate for some of these alerts, you can do that as well and customize each of your alerts individually.

To turn off the vibration for individual alerts, open the Settings app on your iPhone. 

Inside Settings, select Sounds & Haptics. 

On this screen, scroll down to the “Sounds And Haptic Patterns” section. In this section, you can configure any of these options – Ringtone, Text Tone, New Voicemail, New Mail, Sent Mail, Calendar Alerts, and Reminder Alerts. In this instance, we’ll select Ringtone but the instructions remain the same for any alert type you choose from here. 

On the next screen, tap on Vibration at the top. 

From the Vibration screen, you can choose a different vibration type if you want to use the current setting. If you wish to completely turn off vibrations for this alert, tap on None at the bottom. 

Your iPhone will no longer vibrate when you get the selected alert. You can repeat the above step to turn off vibrations for other alert types under “Sounds And Haptic Patterns”. 

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Your iPhone, by default, is configured to vibrate whenever you receive a call or notification in both Ring Mode and Silent Mode. If you don’t fancy your iPhone vibrating every time you get a call or alert, you can disable the haptics for both or either of these modes. To do that, open the Settings app on your iPhone. 

Inside Settings, select Sounds & Haptics. 

On the next screen, scroll down to the bottom to locate the “Ring/Silent Mode Switch” section. In this section, you can turn off the Play Haptics in Ring Mode toggle to disable vibrations when your iPhone is set to Ring Mode. If you wish to disable vibrations when your device is in Silent Mode, you can do that by turning off the Play Haptics in Silent Mode toggle inside this section. 

This way, you can keep vibrations for any one of these modes or disable haptics for both of them as per your liking. 

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Besides calls and alerts, your iPhone will also send haptics when you perform certain system functions like unlocking your device, swiping to see the Recent Apps screen, long-pressing on app icons, or your home screen and other areas. If you don’t want to feel such haptics when you’re interacting with your iPhone, you can turn them off so that your iPhone doesn’t vibrate at all when performing the above actions.

To turn off the vibration for system controls on iOS, open the Settings app on your iPhone. 

Inside Settings, select Sounds & Haptics. 

On the next screen, scroll down to the bottom and turn off the System Haptics toggle. 

Your iPhone would now not vibrate when you interact with iOS and its system controls. 

If you have already turned off all of the aforementioned options, you may still get feel vibrations on your iPhone for some alerts. Your iPhone always sends you emergency alerts for when there’s an extreme weather forecast or a natural disaster that may be happening in and around your region and these alerts will be accompanied by vibrations to make sure you get the alert at the right time.

If don’t like haptics on your iPhone at all, there’s no specific toggle to disable vibrations for emergency alerts alone. However, you can turn off all vibration feedback for your entire device including calls, notifications, and emergency alerts from iOS settings. To turn off all vibrations including Emergency Alerts, open the Settings app on your iPhone. 

On the next screen, tap on Touch under “Physical And Motor”. 

Inside the Touch screen, scroll down and turn off the Vibration toggle. 

You’ll no longer get vibration feedback for any alerts on your iPhone. 

That’s all you need to know about turning off the keyboard and other vibrations on your iPhone. 

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