9 Ways to Fix Apple Watch Not Vibrating

The Apple Watch is a fantastic companion for your iPhone. With notifications just a glance away on your wrist, it helped us reduce our screen time by preventing us from checking our iPhones. However, we found ourselves in a situation where our Apple Watch was not vibrating, and we missed many notifications. Turns out, we had unintentionally disabled a few options, which led us to the problem.

If you are facing a similar issue, you are in the right place. In this article, we want to show you ten methods to use if your Apple Watch stops vibrating for notifications and alerts. Before we get there, let us understand why this problem occurs.

Why Is My Apple Watch Not Vibrating

Your Apple Watch has stopped vibrating for notifications and alerts due to the following reasons:

• You have disabled haptics on your Apple Watch.
• You have enabled Do Not Disturb on your Apple Watch.
• You have disabled notifications for apps on your Apple Watch.
• There are a few bugs on watchOS.
• The hardware on your Apple Watch – the Taptic Engine might be facing an issue.

In the next section, we’ll elaborate on these issues to help you resolve the problem on your Apple Watch quickly.

Fix Apple Watch Not Vibrating for Texts, Calls, Alarms, and Other Notifications

Here are nine ways to solve the problem of haptics not working on your Apple Watch. Let’s begin.

1. Ensure Haptic Alerts Are Turned On

If you have disabled haptics within the settings app on your Apple Watch, you will not be alerted for any notifications with vibrations. Here’s how you can ensure that all the necessary toggles are enabled for haptics on your Apple Watch.

Step 1: Press the Digital Crown once to open the home screen and tap the Settings app.

Step 2: Tap on ‘Sounds & Haptics’.

Step 3: Turn on the toggle for Haptic Alerts.

Additionally, you can also enable the other haptic options.

• Crown Haptics: Enable it to receive gentle haptic feedback that mimics the mechanical motion of the Crown.
• System Haptics: Enable this option to receive haptic feedback for various system actions like long tap, double tap, etc.

2. Disable Do Not Disturb

You will not receive notifications if you enable Do Not Disturb on your Apple Watch. Here’s how to turn it off.

Note: If you have the ‘Mirror my iPhone’ option turned on for Focus Modes, Do Not Disturb will be automatically enabled in your Apple Watch when it is enabled on the paired iPhone. Read this explainer to disable Focus Mode Mirror on Apple Watch.

Step 1: Swipe Up to open the Control Center on your Apple Watch.

Step 2: Tap on the ‘Do Not Disturb’ icon to turn it off.

3. Check if Focus Mode Disables Notifications

If you have enabled a Focus Mode on your Apple Watch that disables all the app notifications, you will not receive any vibrations for alerts. Here’s how to ensure notifications are enabled for the selected Focus Mode.

Your Apple Watch consists of all the Focus Modes created on your iPhone. Therefore, if you want to modify Focus Mode, you can only do it from your iPhone. The changes to the Focus Mode will reflect on your Apple Watch.

Step 1: Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on Focus.

Step 3: Select the Focus Mode you want to modify.

Step 4: Tap on Apps and make the necessary changes for notifications.

Step 5: The changes will apply to the Focus Mode on your Apple Watch. However, if you want to disable the Focus Mode, you can swipe up to open the Control Center and turn it off.

4. Check if App Notifications Are Enabled

If the Apple Watch is not vibrating and you aren’t receiving notifications for a specific app, here’s how to check if you have kept the app notifications on mute.

Step 1: Open the Watch app on your iPhone

Step 2: Tap on Notifications.

Step 3: Select the app for which you are not receiving notifications.

Step 4: Turn on the ‘Mirror My iPhone’ option if you want to use the same notification setting for the app from your iPhone to your Apple Watch.

Otherwise, you can create or select a custom notification scheme for the app.

Step 5: For third-party apps, turn on the toggle for ‘Mirror iPhone Alerts’ in the notifications menu.

Enabling this option applies the notification setting for the app from your iPhone to your Apple Watch. Hence, if you have disabled notifications for the app on your iPhone and enabled this option, you won’t receive notifications on your Apple Watch.

Also Read: How to fix iPhone notifications not working

5. Increase Haptic Sensitivity

Your Apple Watch offers two levels of vibration intensity – default and prominent. If you receive vibrations and haptic feedback on your Apple Watch but aren’t happy with the vibration levels, here’s how to increase it.

Step 1: Press the Digital Crown once to open the home screen and go to Settings.

Step 2: Tap on ‘Sounds & Haptics’.

Step 3: Scroll down and find the option to change the haptic intensity.

You can either use the Default option or the Prominent option. The selection will show you a preview of how the vibration feels like.

6. Restart Apple Watch

Shutting down your Apple Watch closes all the processes, including the bugs, if any. So, if a bug is affecting vibrations and haptics, restarting your Apple Watch can help fix the issue.

Step 1: Press the Digital Crown once to open the home screen and go to Settings.

Step 2: Tap on General.

Step 3: Tap on Shut Down. This turns off your Apple Watch.

Step 4: Press and hold the side button to power on your Apple Watch.

7. Update Apple Watch

If many users face problems with vibrations and haptics on Apple Watch, Apple will release an update to fix it sooner or later. Therefore, ensure you are running the latest version of watchOS on your Apple Watch.

Here’s how you update your Apple Watch. 

Step 1: Open the Watch app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on General.

Step 3: Tap on Software Update.

Step 4: You can download and install a new update, if available.

Your Apple Watch must have at least 50% of battery level and be on charging as you install the update.

8. Reset Apple Watch

If none of the above methods work, reset your Apple Watch. This should most likely fix the software-related issue. However, doing this will erase all the data on your Apple Watch, including your workout data, and unless you have a backup, you can’t restore them. If you still want to go ahead, follow the below steps.

Step 1: Press the Digital Crown once to open the home screen and go to Settings.

Step 2: Tap on General.

Step 3: Tap on Reset.

Step 4: Tap on ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ to proceed.

9. Contact Apple Customer Service 

Your Apple Watch might not be vibrating due to a hardware issue. The Taptic Engine or the vibration motor on your Apple Watch might be physically damaged. So, your last resort is to contact Apple’s customer support to guide you further.

FAQs on Apple Watch Haptics Not Working

1. Can I disable haptics for a single app on my Apple Watch?

No. You cannot disable haptics for a single app on your iPhone.

2. Can water damage the hardware on my Apple Watch?

If you are using your Apple Watch within fifty meters underwater, ideally, it should not pose any problems. However, if you suspect any water damage, contact Apple customer support.

3. Why does the vibration sound crackle on my Apple Watch?

There may be hardware damage on your Apple Watch. Visit Apple customer care for further guidance.

Never Miss a Notification Again

If your Apple Watch is not vibrating and you miss a notification or an alert, the entire purpose of using the device with your iPhone might be counterproductive. Therefore, we hope the above-mentioned methods fix the problem on your Apple Watch.

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