One of the new accessibility features in iOS 18 is called Music Haptics, and it allows your device to vibrate in time with the music you’re listening to. Obviously, if you’re someone that struggles with hearing, this means that you can feel the music rather than just listening to it. But this also means that your phone will vibrate and pulse as you listen to music, using the haptic motor onboard, and that can make listening to music a more interesting experience for everyone.

To enable this feature, we’re going to go into Settings and then tap on Accessibility. From here, we’re looking for Hearing, and you’ll find Music Haptics underneath that heading. At this stage, all we have to do is toggle and switch it on—it’s really as simple as that. There’s actually a demo mode built into Settings here.

Now, when I started playing that demo, I thought long and hard about how to convey this to you through a video. You’re not going to feel my phone vibrating, and you’re not going to hear the sound that’s playing, so it’s a bit pointless really. But I want you to imagine you’ve got a big speaker in front of you, and it’s pulsing as the bass is coming out of it. Imagine you put your hand gently on that speaker—that’s how your iPhone feels. As the bass notes hit, your phone vibrates, and it really does bring that music to life a little bit more.

You’ll also see on this screen which apps are currently supporting Music Haptics. Right now, it’s Music, Classical Music, and the Settings app for this very demo. Over time, it might be that more apps will start appearing in that list, but when it’s enabled, every time you play music in one of those apps, you’ll feel your phone provide that haptic feedback as the songs are playing.

This is just one of many new features in iOS 18 that give your phone a whole load of awesome new superpowers you might not know about yet. If you want to learn more about what your device can do, please do check out my channel down below, where there are hundreds of iPhone QuickTip videos. Or you can download my new eBook, 100 QuickTips for iOS 18, where I’ll guide you through all the new things your device can do in friendly and easy-to-understand language. I’ll see you later!