How to Make Your Apple Watch Vibrate for Notifications

One of the reasons why we adore the Apple Watch is its notification system. The Apple Watch sends out Haptic Feedback that feels like gentle taps whenever you need to be alerted for a notification. If you’re new to the device and are wondering how to make your Apple Watch vibrate for notifications, you are in the right place.

In this article, we will show you how to make your Apple Watch vibrate with haptic feedback for notifications and various system interactions. Further, we will also show you how to make your Apple Watch vibrate only for all notifications or a few stock apps. Let’s begin.

1. Set Apple Watch to Vibrate Only for Alarm and Notifications

Here’s how to make your Apple Watch vibrate to alert you of all the notifications. Doing this will also set the Apple Watch alarm to vibrate only.

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.

Alternatively, you can open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap on ‘Sound & Haptics’, and turn on the toggle for Haptic Alerts.

Increase the Vibration Intensity

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.

Alternatively, you can open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap on ‘Sound & Haptics’, and choose the Haptic Intensity.

However, if you are facing any problems with notifications, you can check out this guide: Fix Apple Watch not receiving notifications.

2. Make Apple Watch Vibrate on Silent for All Notifications

By default, your Apple Watch notifies you with sound and haptic feedback. However, if you wish to receive a vibration but not the sound for notifications, you must enable Silent Mode on your Apple Watch. Here’s how:

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

Step 2: Tap on ‘Sounds & Haptics’.

Step 3: Turn on the toggle for Silent Mode.

You can also open the Control Center on your Apple Watch by swiping up on your watch face and enabling the Silent Mode option.

Alternatively, you can open the Watch app on your iPhone, select ‘Sound and Haptics’, and turn on the toggle for Silent Mode.

3. Put Apple Watch on Vibrate Only for Specific Apps

If you want specific apps to vibrate when sending notifications on your Apple Watch, whereas sounds for other apps, you can set a custom notification scheme. However, you can only do so for stock apps on your Apple Watch. Follow along.

Step 1: Open the Watch app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on Notifications.

Step 3: Select the application.

Step 4: Tap on the ‘Custom Notifications’ option.

Step 5: Turn off the toggle for Sound and ensure that the toggle is on for Haptics.

Once you do this, your Apple Watch vibrates for notifications for that app without sound, even when the silent mode is disabled.

5. How to Set Apple Watch to Vibrate Only for System Interactions

The Apple Watch also provides haptic feedback for a few system interactions, say a long tap and hold, double tap, etc. Here’s how you can turn them on.

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

Step 2: Tap on ‘Sounds & Haptics’.

Step 3: Enable the toggle for System Haptics to receive haptic feedback for various system actions like long tap, double tap, etc.

Alternatively, you can open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap on ‘Sound & Haptics’, and turn on the toggle for System Haptics.

6. Get Apple Watch to Vibrate When Rotating the Crown

The Crown on your Apple Watch is used to scroll up or down in the user interface and also provides haptic feedback that mimics the vibration produced by a mechanical crown. Here’s how you can enable 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: Enable the toggle for Crown Haptics.

Alternatively, you can open the Watch app on your iPhone, tap on ‘Sound & Haptics’, and turn on the toggle for Crown Haptics.

7. Make Apple Watch Vibrate to Tell You the Time

Your Apple Watch can convey the time without you having to raise your wrist and look at the dial. The Taptic Time is a feature that produces a pattern of vibrations that let you know the time of the day. Here’s how you can enable it.

Using Apple Watch

Step 1: Open the Settings app.

Step 2: Scroll down to find and tap on Clock.

Step 3: Turn on the toggle for Taptic Time and select any of the following vibration patterns:

• Morse: Your Apple Watch will tap out each time digit in Morse Code.
• Digits: Your Apple Watch will provide a long tap every ten hours on time and a short tap for each following hour. Then, it will give a long tap for every ten minutes and a short tap for each following minute.
• Terse: Terse provides a long tap for every five hours that have passed since midnight, followed by short taps for the remaining hours, and then long taps for each quarter hour.

Step 5: Touch and hold your Apple Watch face with two fingers to start the pattern of vibrations to know the time on your Apple Watch.

Alternatively, you can enable Taptic Time on the Watch app on your iPhone.

Using the Watch App on iPhone

Step 1: Open the Watch app and scroll down to go to Clock.

Select Taptic Time and turn on the toggle for the same.

That is everything you need to know about making your Apple Watch vibrate. However, if you do not like haptics, you can read our article to disable Haptic Feedback on your Apple Watch.

If you have any further questions, you can look at the FAQ section.

FAQs on Apple Watch Haptic

1. How to make Apple Watch vibrate for notifications on Do Not Disturb or other Focus Modes?

While silent mode is enabled on Apple Watch with haptic alerts turned on, customize the Focus Mode on your iPhone to allow notifications from apps.

2. Why is my Apple Watch not vibrating for notifications?

You can read our detailed guide to help if haptics is not working on Apple Watch.

3. Is the Apple Watch vibrating the same as Do Not Disturb?

No. Do Not Disturb, by default, does not alert you to any notification. However, the silent mode with haptics alerts you with vibrations for notifications.

Haptic Feedback for Notifications

We hope this article helps you receive notifications with gentle vibrations on your wrist from your Apple Watch. However, we wish Apple included more settings to control the intensity of vibrations on the Watch and set custom vibrations for app notifications.

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