Is your iPhone randomly vibrating?
Smartphones have become an extension of ourselves and the iPhone stands tall as one of the most iconic and beloved devices. However, even the most reliable gadgets can occasionally exhibit puzzling behavior.
If you've found yourself asking, "why does my iPhone randomly vibrate?", you're not alone. Recently a lot of users have been complaining about this issue with the iOS' latest beta update.
Why is your iPhone randomly vibrating?
iPhones, like any other tech, can encounter software bugs. Sometimes, these glitches manifest as random vibrations. Upgrading to the latest iOS version, as suggested in the Apple Discussions forum, might help resolve iPhone randomly vibrating issue but sometimes be the reason behind it.
Certain apps may trigger iPhone randomly vibrating problem due to notifications. Review your app notification settings and consider disabling unnecessary alerts.
Although less common, hardware issues can also lead to unexpected vibrations. If the problem persists after software troubleshooting, consult Apple's support or visit an Apple Store for a thorough examination.
Check if any accessibility features like ''Vibration'' or ''Touch Accommodations'' are enabled in your iPhone settings. Disabling these might resolve the random vibrations.
Although Apple is extra-careful with third-party apps, these apps may be causing the iPhone randomly vibrating issues. Ensure your apps are up-to-date and consider uninstalling suspicious ones.
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Most people are finding it is related to the newest Pokémon Go! update. If you check control center, Pokémon Go! has accessed location just prior to the vibrations.
You are the best I didn’t even think about that being the problem even tho I said to my friend it’s vibrating randomly like Pokémon go does when new Pokémon pop up
It’s happening on beta release isn’t this to be expected? Any beta release is going to have bugs.
“You can browse the internet privately on your iPhone too”
No, you can’t. See below.
“This means that no one will be able to see what you’ve been browsing unless you tell them.”
No-one you would allow to use your devices. It’s important to remind that online trackers still get almost as much as before in this mode, tracking you for the duration of the session at least. In fact a quick search on whether cookies (and local storage, indexedDB, and so on) are even cleared at exit or not in Apple’s private browsing gives contradictory answers (maybe this has to do with Apple’s habit of conveniently avoiding to get technical with users, even when that means more opportunities to fool them) and your article doesn’t say more, so it’s not even clear to me that there is any protection against online trackers.
About the other Apple privacy tools you mention, I wouldn’t trust them. They killed the actual privacy tools like ublock origin on Safari that hide the IP address from trackers, to then provide their own fake replacement, like Google and their Mozilla pet company are slowly doing too with their own browsers. From the mouth of such companies, even “blocking cookies” may actually mean something weaker, like having an undisclosed tracker whitelist for bullshit reasons that ublock origin doesn’t seem to need (Mozilla does that for instance), not actually blocking them but just isolating them while still writing they’re blocked (Mozilla did that through inaccurate UI wording for third-party cookies), or keeping in place for years privacy bugs that they are aware of and that don’t remove storage when it’s supposed to be (Mozilla again, and they’re not worse than the others). And it’s only a few examples.
Is there also need to remind that Safari like all the other big browsers is infested with Apple’s own spyware antifeatures (including for advertisers, unlike what they pretend in their ads) ?
Sneak PEEK.
It has been weeks where the comments sections are littered with old unrelated comments. Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to ghacks.
This should have been an open standard that works across laptops, OSes, and phones. I doubt it will be though and we will just have to wait until the EU drops the hammer in 8-10 years ?