Did iOS 17 kill the 'Volume Down to Mute' haptic feedback?

[Sowelu]

I noticed right after the iOS 17 upgrade that when I turn my iPhone's volume all the way down to mute/off, it no longer gives haptic feedback at the mute level. I was hoping it was just a bug and that iOS 17.1 would fix it, but no luck. Anyone else notice this? Or is this a deliberate change by Apple?

 

[qvintus53]

Same for me, it was great to get the haptic feedback.

 

[netsped]

It still does it, but it's very faint. It was the first thing I noticed after installing iOS 17.

 

[Sowelu]

Yeah, I've noticed that every now and then it works, but it's VERY faint - like why bother faint. Not sure why Apple felt this was necessary...

 

[gwang73]

I've discovered that if you hold the volume down button to go all the way down, there is no haptic feedback when it hits zero. Once at zero, if you just press the volume down button again, it will give a very slight haptic feedback for each vol-down button press.

Update: I think it's just buggy in 17.1. I tried it again and now haptics seems to work. If you hold down the volume button, you do get haptics as the volume goes up and down. When you're at the top or bottom, pressing the volume button again in the same direction also has haptics. It's just that they are very faint.

 

[Populus]

I’m still on iOS 16, and there are more haptic feedbacks on volume up/down. When you keep pressing, it gives you feedback while it’s going up or down fast. It’s a different feedback, do you feel that one in iOS 17?

Also, the haptic feedback you feel once you hit the lowest point, happens when you reach the top volume as well. Do you feel that one on iOS 17?

 

[FeliApple]

When was this added? I have system haptics enabled on my iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12 but nothing happens when I turn it all the way down.

 

[Sowelu]

It's all over the place on my iPhone 14 Pro Max, but at best, it's barely there faint and at random. In most cases, there is no feedback at all. Regardless, it's definitely not behaving like it used to prior to iOS17. This feature must be broken/glitched as I cannot see Apple intentionally nerfing it this way.

 

[missingar]

It's all over the place on my iPhone 14 Pro Max, but at best, it's barely there faint and at random. In most cases, there is no feedback at all. Regardless, it's definitely not behaving like it used to prior to iOS17. This feature must be broken/glitched as I cannot see Apple intentionally nerfing it this way.

This is my experience on 15 Pro Max as well. It's so sporadic and when it does do it, it's so faint it might as well not be there.

 

[MacCheetah3]

The haptic feedback exists on both my iPhone X with iOS 16.7.2 and my iPhone 15 PM running iOS 17.1. I did notice iOS 16 seems to have more of a ‘thump’ when reaching/at max/mute volume. On the iPhone 15, the strength of the feedback seems to correlate with the volume level — it’s very subtle so I could be mistaken, though I forgot the feature even existed thus no bias.

EDIT: After further testing, I did discover a possible bug, the haptics don't occur on an initial volume change following an unlock.