Press the Power Button to Mute Your Device When It Rings

When your phone rings for an incoming call or alarm, you can press the Power button to mute it.

Flip to Mute

When there is an incoming call, you can flip your phone to mute it.

To use this feature, go to Settings > Accessibility features > Shortcuts & gestures > Mute ringtone/Reduce volume and make sure that Flip to mute ringtone is enabled.

Change the Sounds and Vibration Settings

You can set the messaging tone, notification tone, and call ringtone depending on your preferences, as well as set the vibration pattern.

1. Go to Settings > Sounds & vibration and touch Phone ringtone, Messaging tone, or Notification tone.

2. You can then:

   • Set a tone.

     Select a preset tone, or touch Music on device to select a locally saved song.

     If two SIM cards are being used, you can set the tones for them individually.

   • Set a vibration pattern.

     Touch Vibration and select a vibration pattern as you prefer.

     When Synchronized (default) is selected, your phone will vibrate according to the rhythm of the tone.

     For other options, the vibration pattern of your phone is fixed.

Use a Shortcut to Switch Between Sound, Vibration, and Silent Modes

1. Swipe down from the upper right edge of the screen to display Control Panel and touch to expand the shortcut switches panel (depending on your device model).

2. Touch Sound, Silent, or Vibration to switch between different modes.

In Sound mode, your phone plays all sounds as normal.

In Silent mode, your phone only mutes the ringtones for incoming calls, messages, notifications, and some third-party app notifications. Other sounds, including alarms, voice calls, music, videos, and games, will not be muted.

In Vibration mode, your phone is muted and vibrates to provide discreet alerts for calls or messages.

You can also go to Settings > Sounds & vibration to switch between Sound, Vibration, and Silent modes.

Set the Default Volume

Go to Settings > Sounds & vibration and you can then set the default volume for the following items:

• Ringer, Messages, Notifications
• Alarms
• Music, Videos, Games
• Calls

Set More settings

On the Sounds & vibration screen, touch More settings, and set more notification methods according to your preferences. For example, you can set Screen lock and Screen touch.