How to Turn Off Vibration on iPhone and Android

Your phone is on silent, but it still buzzes against the table in a meeting. Or it vibrates for every message while you are trying to sleep, even though the sound is off. That is the confusing part of phone vibration: silent mode controls sound, not vibration. Vibration has its own switches, and they live in different places for calls, messages, typing, and system taps.

First, work out which vibration is bothering you

Turning off the wrong switch is why most people say "I turned vibration off and it still buzzes." Each kind of buzz has its own control, so start from what you actually feel:

On iPhone: calls and alerts first

This is the vibration most people mean when they say "stop my phone vibrating." On iPhone, each alert sound carries its own vibration pattern, so you can silence one kind of alert without touching the rest.

1. Open Settings, then tap Sounds & Haptics.
2. Tap Ringtone, then tap Haptics, then choose None. Calls will now ring without buzzing.
3. Go back and repeat the same step for Text Tone and any other alert category that bothers you, such as Calendar Alerts or Reminder Alerts.
4. If your iPhone shows a main Haptics behaviour menu on the same screen, choose Never Play to stop vibration for calls and alerts in both ring and silent modes. Choose Don't Play in Silent Mode instead if you only want silence when the phone is silenced.

On iPhone: typing taps and system taps

If calls are fixed but the phone still taps back at you while you type or flip switches, those are two more switches, not a fault.

1. Open Settings, then tap Sounds & Haptics.
2. Tap Keyboard Feedback and turn off Haptic. Leave Sound on if you still want the typing click, or turn both off for a fully quiet keyboard. This keyboard feedback setting has been in this spot since iOS 16.
3. Go back to Sounds & Haptics and turn off System Haptics. This stops the small taps you feel when you use system controls, such as toggles, pickers, and Control Center. It does not stop call or message vibration — those use the settings in the previous section.

This guide to turning off System Haptics on iPhone confirms the same split: System Haptics covers system controls and interactions only, while keyboard, ringtone, and text vibrations each keep their own setting.

On iPhone: the master switch, and why to think twice

If you want no vibration anywhere at all, iPhone has one master switch that overrides everything else:

1. Open Settings, then tap Accessibility.
2. Tap Touch.
3. Turn off Vibration.

Every change in this section is reversible from the same screen. Turn the master switch back on, pick a pattern instead of None, or turn System Haptics and keyboard Haptic back on whenever you want the feedback back.

On Pixel and other Android phones: one master switch

Pixel and near-stock Android phones put the phone-wide control in one place, with separate sliders underneath it for finer control.

1. Open Settings, then tap Sound & vibration.
2. Tap Vibration & haptics.
3. Turn off Use vibration & haptics. This stops vibration for calls, notifications, alarms, and touch feedback in one move.
4. If you only want to stop part of it, leave the master switch on and turn off just Ring vibration, Notification vibration, or Touch feedback instead.

Google's own Pixel guide to changing notification sounds and vibrations confirms the same path — Settings, then Sound and vibration, then Vibrations and haptics — and notes that you can adjust vibration strength for notifications from that screen.

On Samsung Galaxy: intensity instead of a single switch

Samsung does not use one master vibration switch. It splits vibration into call, notification, and system controls, and lets you turn each one down to zero.

1. Open Settings, then tap Sounds and vibration.
2. To stop call buzzing, tap Call vibration and choose Silent, or open Vibration intensity and slide Calls all the way down.
3. Do the same for Notification vibration and Vibration intensity for notifications if message buzzing is the problem.
4. For taps and typing feedback, tap System vibration and turn off the items you do not want, such as touch interactions, dialling keypad, and Samsung Keyboard. If you use Gboard instead, its haptic setting lives inside Gboard's own settings, under Preferences.

Samsung's own guide to sounds, vibrations, and notifications on Galaxy devices lists the same four controls — Call vibration, Notification vibration, System vibration, and Vibration intensity — and warns that the exact layout may vary by OS version, device model, and region. If a menu name on your Galaxy differs slightly, use the search box at the top of Settings and type "vibration" to find the same screens.

Temporary quiet versus permanent off

It is worth being clear about which problem you are solving, because the wrong tool causes a different frustration:

If the goal is a schedule rather than a permanent change — quiet every night, loud every morning — our guide to scheduling Do Not Disturb on iPhone and Android covers the automatic version. And if you want to keep vibration but give each caller a different pattern instead, see our guide to custom vibration patterns on iPhone and Android.

Still vibrating? Check these three places

When the main switches are off and something still buzzes, the culprit is almost always one of these:

• One app with its own setting. Some apps set their own notification vibration inside the app or in their notification channel settings, which can survive the phone-wide change. Open Settings, then Notifications, then App notifications, pick the app, and check its vibration setting.
• Alarms. Alarms carry their own vibration choice inside each alarm, separate from call and notification vibration. Open the alarm, look for its vibration or haptics option, and set it to None or turn its vibration toggle off if you want a sound-only alarm.
• A Focus mode or Do Not Disturb exception. A Focus profile can let selected contacts or apps through, vibration included, even when the rest of the phone is quiet. Check your active Focus or Do Not Disturb settings if vibration keeps coming through on top of everything else.

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