Why does my wife get good vibrations?

Why does my wife get good vibrations?

Q I have an iPhone 6 and my wife an iPhone 8. They both operate very similarly, but I’ve noticed that when using my wife’s handset I feel lots of tiny little buzzes. For example, when scrolling through lists on my wife’s iPhone it delivers satisfying physical ‘clicks’ as I swipe.

My device does not do this. I’ve looked through the options, but I can’t see what I might change to enable this feature on my iPhone. Can you help?

Roger Benham

A We can tell you why your wife gets a buzz but you don’t – and that’s haptics.

While older iPhones have long offered vibrations for feedback, it was only from the iPhone 7 onwards that Apple started including a mechanism sensitive enough to generate trembles that could feel like little clicks. Apple calls this the Taptic Engine, and it just doesn’t exist in your iPhone 6.

On your wife’s iPhone 8, though, it can be switched on or off by launching Settings, tapping ‘Sound & Haptics’ and then flipping the slider alongside System Haptics (see screenshot right).