- Getting Started
- Customizing Your Home Screens
- Setting the Screen’s Brightness, Lock/Wake, Text, View, and Wallpaper Options
- Choosing the Sounds and Vibratory Feedback Your iPhone Uses
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Choosing the Sounds and Vibratory Feedback Your iPhone Uses
Sound and vibrations are two ways your iPhone uses to communicate with you. You can configure the sounds and vibrations the phone uses in two ways. One is by choosing the general sounds and vibrations your iPhone makes, which is covered in this section. You can also configure the sounds and vibrations that apps use for notifications about certain events; this is covered in Chapter 4.
If you have an iPhone 7 or later model, it offers haptic feedback, which means the phone vibrates slightly when something happens, such as when you make a choice on a selection wheel. You can determine whether you want to feel this feedback or not. If you don’t have one of these models, you won’t see references to haptics on your Sounds screens.
To configure your iPhone’s general sounds, do the following:
On the Settings screen, tap Sounds & Haptics (iPhone 7 and later) or Sounds (earlier models).
Set the Vibrate on Ring switch to on (green) if you want your iPhone to also vibrate when it rings.
Set the Vibrate on Silent switch to on (green) if you want your iPhone to vibrate when you have it muted.
Set the volume of the ringer and alert tones by dragging the slider to the left or right.
Set the Change with Buttons switch to on (green) if you want to also be able to change the ringer volume using the Volume buttons on the side of the phone.
Tap Ringtone. On the resulting screen, you can set the sound and vibration your iPhone uses when a call comes in.
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Swipe up and down the screen to see all the ringtones available to you. There are two sections of sounds on this screen: RINGTONES and ALERT TONES. These work in the same way; alert tones tend to be shorter sounds. At the top of the RINGTONES section, you see any custom ringtones you have configured on your phone; a dark line separates those from the default ringtones that are below the custom ones.
Tap a sound, and it plays; tap it again to stop it.
Repeat steps 7 and 8 until you have selected the sound you want to have as your general ringtone.
If necessary, swipe down the screen so you see the Vibration section at the top.
Tap Vibration. A list of Standard and Custom vibrations is displayed.
Swipe up and down the screen to see all the vibrations available. The STANDARD section contains the default vibrations, and in the CUSTOM section you can tap Create New Vibration to create your own vibration patterns, as discussed in the “Sounding Off” sidebar at the end of this section.
Tap a vibration. It “plays” so you can feel it; tap it again to stop it.
Repeat steps 12 and 13 until you’ve selected the general vibration you want to use; you can tap None at the bottom of the Vibration screen (not shown on the figure) below the CUSTOM section if you don’t want to have a general vibration.
Tap Ringtone.
Tap Back. The ringtone you selected is shown on the Sounds and Haptics (or Sounds) screen next to the Ringtone label.
Tap Text Tone.
Use steps 7−14 with the Text Tone screen to set the sound and vibration used when you receive a new text. The process works the same as for ringtones, though the screens look a bit different. For example, the ALERT TONES section is at the top of the screen because you are more likely to want a short sound for new texts.
When you’re done setting the text tone, tap Back.
Using the same process as you did for ringtones and text tones, set the sound and vibrations for the rest of the events on the list.
If you don’t like the audible feedback when you tap keys on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard, slide the Keyboard Clicks switch to off (white) to disable that sound. The keyboard is silent as you type on it.
If you don’t want your iPhone to make a sound when you lock it, slide the Lock Sound switch to off (white). Your iPhone no longer makes this sound when you press the Side button to put it to sleep and lock it.
Set the System Haptics switch to off (white) if you prefer not to experience vibratory feedback for events. (System Haptics are available on iPhone 7 or later models.)
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