Test Your iPhone’s Vibration Motor

Now that your vibration settings are set up correctly, you can test to see if the vibration motor is working on your iPhone by flipping the Ring / Silent switch on the left side of your iPhone. The vibration motor is the hardware component of your iPhone that makes it vibrate.

1. Flip the Ring / Silent switch on the left side of your iPhone back and forth a few times.
2. If your iPhone doesn’t vibrate, the vibration motor may be broken, but there could still be a software issue at play.

Why this works:

If your iPhone doesn’t vibrate when you flip the Ring / Silent switch back and forth, there may be a hardware issue with its vibration motor.

Pro tip:

• When the Ring / Silent switch is pulled towards the back of your iPhone, it is set to Silent.
• When the Ring / Silent switch is pushed towards the front of the screen, it is set to Ring.