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How to play music on iPhone as taps, textures, and more

With Music Haptics, you can experience music on iPhone with taps, textures, and refined vibrations that are synchronized with a song’s audio. It’s one switch in Accessibility settings, and you can start or stop Music Haptics as a song plays from Control Center.

Note: Music Haptics is available with supported iPhone models for millions of songs in Apple Music, Music Classical, Shazam, and compatible third-party apps when your iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi or cellular.

  1. Open Settings, tap Accessibility, and then tap Music Haptics.
  2. Turn Music Haptics on.

    To start or stop Music Haptics as a song plays, open Control Center, tap the audio card, then tap the Music Haptics icon. If you see the Music Haptics unavailable icon, Music Haptics isn’t available for the song.

  3. Doing any of the following to customize haptics:

    • Customize: Select Full Mix to play haptics to match the rhythm, beat, and energy of the song. Select Vocals Only to play haptics for vocals or vocal-like melodies.
    • Intensity: Select Light, Medium, or Strong haptic feedback.

Quick tip: The click of a button or another shortcut can control Music Haptics, too.

Tag: Music