Turn Off Haptic Feedback When Unlocking Screen

advokate

Please excuse me if I'm doing a double-post here, but I couldn't find anything about this topic while searching through the forum.
Starting from GrapheneOS version 2025112100 there were some annoying changes, yet most of them neglectable and easy to cope with as time passes
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/28267-grapheneos-version-2025112100-released
But that damn haptic feedback when unlocking the screen is just driving me crazy. Is there any way to turn that useless "feature" off? I just don't get the point of that. I can either disable vibrate completely or enabling everywhere. Since my phone is almost always muted disabling vibrating is counterproductive because ID have no notifications at all for calls/messages
According to the thread announcing the release, that's AOSP feature und unavoidable
Fair enough. In the meanwhile I tried out many phones from friends and colleagues, also lot of Pixels with stock OS and none, absolutely NONE, no single phone gave a haptic feedback when the screen got unlocked (unless activated in the settings on purpose)
So what am I doing wrong? Am I blind? Am I just too stupid? Is something wrong with my device?
Or does everybody else who is also using GOS experience that issue? It's hard to believe
So, back to my actual question:
Is there any way to turn it off, without disabling vibrating at all?
(Google Pixel 8)

nandohyphen1

advokate Yes, you can turn it off. Go to Settings > Sound and Vibration > Vibration and Haptics under the section Interactive haptics turn touch feedback all the way off (slide the slider all the way down). This will disable touch feedback for the entire phone, including unlocking it with the screen lock.

Novalissoide

advokate Pixels with stock OS

These aren't running plain AOSP, their OS comes with loads of things on top of AOSP, which is not a production-ready OS, rather an archaic base for an OS that is runnable. Hence the easily made assumption that GrapheneOS 'removed things' or 'changed things to the worse compared to Pixel stock', but Gos isn't from Pixel Stock except the not-even-barebones AOSP-part, which the project changes just to a small extent as far that I understand it.

Novalissoide

nandohyphen1 wouldn't this turn off all haptics? If they are ok with that, sure.🙂

nandohyphen1

Novalissoide yes

nandohyphen1 This will disable touch feedback for the entire phone, including unlocking it with the screen lock.

advokate

nandohyphen1 es, you can turn it off. Go to Settings > Sound and Vibration > Vibration and Haptics under the section Interactive haptics turn touch feedback all the way off (slide the slider all the way down). This will disable touch feedback for the entire phone, including unlocking it with the screen lock.>

Yes I know, but that's exactly what I don't want to do. I want it to vibrate on notifications, calls, etc. except for when unlocking the screen
Sorry for my unclear question but thanks for telling me how to turn off vibration completely

Novalissoide These aren't running plain AOSP, their OS comes with loads of things on top of AOSP, which is not a production-ready OS, rather an archaic base for an OS that is runnable. Hence the easily made assumption that GrapheneOS 'removed things' or 'changed things to the worse compared to Pixel stock', but Gos isn't from Pixel Stock except the not-even-barebones AOSP-part, which the project changes just to a small extent as far that I understand it

True that, but according to serveral sources I stumbled upon (I think it had also been mentioned in the thread of the announcement of the new release, not sure about that though) Pixel stock OS also has that haptic feedback when unlocking the screen (and AOSP per default)

nandohyphen1 yes

May I ask: What's the point in doing so, if I just want to turn it off when I'm unlocking the screen?

Anyways, am I the only person experiencing that phenomenon? Or am I just the only one who wants to turn it off?

userofgos

advokate Anyways, am I the only person experiencing that phenomenon?

No, everyone has this haptic feedback when unlocking and there is no way to turn it off without turning off all haptic feedback and vibration.

advokate am I just the only one who wants to turn it off?

I think it would be a nice to have toggle in the Sound & Vibration menu, but since it is not an available feature in AOSP it's less likely to be added to GrapheneOS

Novalissoide

advokate Pixel stock OS also has that haptic feedback when unlocking the screen

Yes, but if they've added a feature for toggling this on stock PixelOS, that feature won't automatically be added backwards to AOSP. It may later be added even to AOSP, but not as per a standard case rule. The feature could be in conflict with the open source model, or it could be that Google want it to be PixelOS exclusive for some reason.

nandohyphen1

advokate Sorry for my unclear question but thanks for telling me how to turn off vibration completely

That shouldn't turn off vibration completely. Just disable haptics.

advokate May I ask: What's the point in doing so, if I just want to turn it off when I'm unlocking the screen?

I think thats the only way to disable screen unlocking haptics - by disabling all the feedback haptics. If you want just the lockscreen haptics disabled, I don't think theres a way to do that

Novalissoide

advokate since you seem to enjoy haptics in general, why the big antipathy for haptics in the very limited case of lockscreen?
There isn't a featured toggle for it in this OS.

advokate

sorry for double post, cannot edit my previous one

nandohyphen1 That shouldn't turn off vibration completely. Just disable haptics.

negative, it's either all or nothing
currently 3 things work
first: turn off any kind of vibration
second: vibration for calls/notifications and no haptic feedback EXCEPT for screen unlocking (which is by the way the result of your suggestion)
third: basically all vibrations possible at each and every step your mobile performs

advokate

Novalissoide
sorry, seems I've been too inconsistent or unprecise with my wording or maybe a bit too eclectic (as I read through my posts that might actually be the case)

I absolutely DISLIKE haptic feedback in any kind of way, I just want vibration for notifications when I receive a call, message, reminder, available updates, asf.
apart of that I want no vibration at all, like it was in the good old days
and that's exactly what's bugging me, I can turn off any haptic feedback (by haptic feedback I mean any vibrations that are not affiliated to calls/messages/notifications) except for the one appearing when my screen gets unlocked

Novalissoide

advokate second: vibration for calls/notifications and no haptic feedback EXCEPT for screen unlocking

Now I get it, since this proposed mitigation succeeds in turning lockscreen pin/password entry void of haptics, the only thing this entire discussion is still about, is that tiny confirming shake when the unlock event happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Pea

advokate

Novalissoide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_

despite inspecting thoroughly through this wiki page, unfortunately I wasn't able to find any helpful hints towards my goal :(
thanks for the effort doing further research, much appreciated!

to sum this up, everybody has that "issue" and there is no real workaround for it?
just hoped somebody might know something that helps
as long as there are way more major concerns for GOS, I guess I'll just have to cope with it
maybe, when there are less serious things to consider during development, there will be some spare time for a little change?
que sera, whatever will be, the future's not ours to see

(further suggestions are still welcome ;) )

tisi

I suspect this is the same annoyance I inflicted upon me that I'd prefer to be unburdened from.
In my case at least, when I touch biometric unlock, there's haptic feedback and also a small noise.
In settings there are 2 sliders under 'Interactive haptics'

1) Touch feedback
2) Media vibration

Both have been slid to zero
Seems sliding 'Touch feedback' to zero doesn't work
My preference for biometric touch would be zero response other than unlocking whatever the touch is intended to unlock.
I like the option of notification vibration for incoming communication or an alarm in the clock. That though is very different from the touch biometric haptic I'd prefer unburdened from
Great if a technical genius somewhere can rectify that