Alarm Doesn’t Vibrate

[Cnasty]

I get haptic feedback for notifications perfectly. I toggle off the silent mode and the alarm pings.

I toggle on silent mode and the alarm goes off but there is no vibration it just displays on my screen the alarm is going off but with no vibrations.

Preliminary google searches says this is a common problem and some have had their watch replaced.

This is a series 3 SB SS, thanks.

 

[Moi Ici]

I’m on series 2 (SS) and I’m getting the vibration/haptic (also keep silent mode on watch and sometimes iPhone also). Maybe it’s the series 3 where this is happening.

 

[Cnasty]

I’m on series 2 (SS) and I’m getting the vibration/haptic (also keep silent mode on watch and sometimes iPhone also). Maybe it’s the series 3 where this is happening.

I’ve tried it with keeping the silent mode on, off, theater mode on and off and the sounds play for the alarm.

Go into silent mode, no vibration. Yet works fine for notifications. So odd and wondering if it’s the device or known issue.

I also restarted phone and watch, no luck.

 

[Radeon85]

I've noticed that if the vibration on the phone alarm is off then this affects the watch as well even if you only set the alarm on the watch and the phone alarm is off.

If I set the phone alarm to vibration and only set an alarm on the watch, the watch will vibrate as it should.

Really stupid issue to be honest.

 

[matrix07]

Strange. I don't have to do anything. Just tell Siri "Wake me up at 2:45" and it vibrated at the time. No sound on watch and no sound & vibration from phone.
My watch is in Silent mode btw.

watchOS 4 S2 NIKE. iOS 11.0.1 on iPhone 6s.

 

[Radeon85]

Strange, this was a few days ago with the 7+ iOS 11.0 and WatchOS 4 on my S2.

Will need to try it again with 11.01.

 

[Johan61]

#2
Hi,
I read the following solution on this forum and it worked for my series 2. On your iPhone create a new alarm (not an existing one) with sound and vibration (I took staccato). When the alarm went off, my watch vibrateded again. Weird, but it worked.

 

[Cnasty]

I've noticed that if the vibration on the phone alarm is off then this affects the watch as well even if you only set the alarm on the watch and the phone alarm is off.

I set the phone alarm to vibration and only set an alarm on the watch and is vibrated on the watch as it should.

Really stupid issue to be honest.

You sir are a genius!! That worked perfectly even though it doesn't make much sense from an OS perspective!

Thanks a bunch

 

[edhchoe]

I do not have vibration issues. But since I bought the AW, I have deleted all my alarms from iphone. I guess that's why I don't have the issue? The phone is set to vibrate on ring and do not vibrate on silence and the phone and AW are always on silence.

 

[Moi Ici]

I've noticed that if the vibration on the phone alarm is off then this affects the watch as well even if you only set the alarm on the watch and the phone alarm is off.

If I set the phone alarm to vibration and only set an alarm on the watch, the watch will vibrate as it should.

Really stupid issue to be honest.

That’s it, didn’t know. It wasn’t an issue for me as I did have phone on vibrate, however wasn’t aware of this “feature”. Would have been bummed as I rely on vibrate on watch a lot. if I had muted vibrate on phone I would,have been left notification less. Thanks for explanation!