[FIX] Stop Apps Like TuneIn Radio Using Sound from Vibrating Phone

[exwifeusesiphone]

This was irritating the hell out of me, plus it's a big waste of the battery. TuneIn Radio would seemingly randomly start vibrating the phone in concert with the sound being produced.

Go to Settings/Sound and turn OFF Auto haptic.

Somehow some apps are (accidentally?) using this to provide haptic feedback with sound. TuneIn Radio is definitely one of them. I was fiddling with a music app called MusicGrid and it was exhibiting the same behavior. That's how I figured out it HAD to be a system setting.

Who knows what Auto haptic is for, and who cares. Turn it off. Problem solved!

 

[davidmanvell]

From Wikipaedia:

Haptic technology, or haptics, is a tactile feedback technology which takes advantage of the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user.[1] This mechanical stimulation can be used to assist in the creation of virtual objects in a computer simulation, to control such virtual objects, and to enhance the remote control of machines and devices (telerobotics). It has been described as "doing for the sense of touch what computer graphics does for vision".[2] Haptic devices may incorporate tactile sensors that measure forces exerted by the user on the interface.
Haptic technology has made it possible to investigate how the human sense of touch works by allowing the creation of carefully controlled haptic virtual objects. These objects are used to systematically probe human haptic capabilities, which would otherwise be difficult to achieve. These research tools contribute to the understanding of how touch and its underlying brain functions work.