How to Create a Custom iPhone Vibrating Ringtone

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Create custom vibrating ringtones to know exactly who is calling you —without the embarrassingly loud music ringtones everyone else has! 😳

by Gregory Sargent

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To enable custom vibrating ringtones, start inside the iPhone's Settings app and tap General.

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Next, scroll down and tap Accessibility

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Make sure that the Custom Vibrations toggle switch is set to On.

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Now go back one page and tap Sounds.

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Scroll all the way to the bottom and tap Vibration.

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Scroll to the bottom and tap Create New Vibration.

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Now tap out your custom vibration pattern. It might take a few tries to master the response times. Tap Stop when you are done.

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Immediately after tapping Stop, this alert window pops up asking you to give the newly created vibration pattern a name. Type out a name and tap Save.

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Now your custom vibrating alert will be listed.

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To assign a ringtone to a contact, tap Edit and the ringtone/vibration fields will now be available to edit. Tap vibration to change the default vibrating alert to the new one you just created.

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