Change volume, sound, & vibrate settings

You can make your phone's volume louder or quieter. You can also change your ringtone, sound, and vibration.

Important:

• Some of these steps work only on Android 12 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
• Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.

Turn your volume up or down

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, tap the Menu .
   • If you don't find Settings, go to the steps for older Android versions.
3. Slide the volume levels to where you want them:
   • Media volume: Music, videos, games, and other media
   • Call volume: Volume of the other person during a call
   • Ring Volume
   • Notification volume
   • Alarm volume

Tips:

• To have your Google Assistant change your phone's volume for you, say or tap Hey Google, change volume.
• If your phone is paired to more than one Bluetooth device, you can change where you hear music, videos, and games. Under "Media volume," tap Play media to.
• When you press a volume button, the volume that changes depends on what you're doing. For example, if you're watching a movie, the movie volume changes. If you press your volume buttons when you're not listening to anything, your media volume changes.

Turn on vibrate or mute

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, above the slider, tap Ring .
   • To turn on vibrate, tap Vibrate .
   • To mute, tap Mute .

Tips:

• To turn the ring or sound back on your phone, turn off Vibrate  or turn on Ring .
• To silence your phone's ring when you receive a call, press a volume button.

Turn off some sounds and vibrations

You can silence all sounds, or turn on certain sounds like alarms or important calls.

Learn how to control which sounds are silenced with "Do Not Disturb."

Make all phone calls vibrate

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, tap the Menu .
3. If needed, tap See more.
4. Turn on Vibrate for calls. Or tap Vibration & haptics  Vibrate for calls  Turn on Always vibrate.

Change what happens when you press power + volume up (Pixel 5a & earlier)

Tip: To quickly turn on vibrate, press Power + Volume up.

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration Shortcut to prevent ringing.
3. Turn Prevent ringing on or off.
   • If you don't see "Prevent ringing," go to the steps for older Android versions.
4. Choose what happens when you press Power and Volume up:
   • Vibrate: Phone calls and notifications vibrate
   • Mute: Phone calls and notifications are silent

Change ringtones

Change your ringtone

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
   
2. Tap Sound & vibration  Phone ringtone.
   
3. Pick a ringtone.
   
4. Tap Save.
   

Assign a ringtone to someone

1. Open your phone's Contacts app .
   
2. Tap a contact.
   
3. Tap More Set ringtone.
   
4. Choose a ringtone.
   
5. Tap Save.
   

Get new ringtones

Get ringtone apps

Download more ringtones from ringtone apps in the Google Play Store .

Transfer a ringtone from a computer

1. Connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable. Learn how to transfer files by USB.
2. In the window that opens, find the "Ringtones" folder. Copy your music file (MP3) into the "Ringtones" folder.
3. Disconnect your phone from your computer.

Tip: Alarm and phone ringtones use different folders. Learn how to add ringtones for alarms.

Change other sounds & vibrations

Change notification sounds & vibration

Change your notification sound

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration  Default notification sound.
3. Choose a sound.
4. Tap Save.

Tip: You can choose different notification sounds for different apps. Use the settings menu inside each app. For example, learn how to change Gmail notifications.

Make your notifications vibrate

Some apps let you choose whether to vibrate for their notifications. Learn how to change notifications for certain apps.

Choose keyboard sounds & vibrations

When you type, you can turn the keyboard vibration feedback on or off.

To turn the keyboard vibration on or off:

1. Open your phone’s Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration Vibration & haptics.
3. Turn Keyboard vibration on or off.

Tip: To adjust your Gboard settings, touch and hold the comma button or tap Settings .

Change emergency broadcast settings

You can turn alert types on or off, find past alerts, and control sound and vibration.

1. On your phone, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications  Wireless emergency alerts.
3. Choose how often you want to receive alerts and which settings you want to turn on.

You can use this setting to manage certain emergency messages, like disaster warnings, threat notifications, and AMBER alerts.

Choose other sounds & vibrations (touch, charging, screen lock & more)

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound & vibration Advanced.
3. Turn a sound or vibration on or off.

Change work profile sounds

1. Set up a work profile.
2. Open your phone's Settings app.
3. Tap Sound & vibration Advanced.
4. Scroll down to "Work profile sounds."
5. Choose your ringtones and sounds.

If you use an older Android version

Change what happens when you press Power + Volume up

1. Open your phone's Settings app.
2. Tap Sound Shortcut to prevent ringing.
3. Tap Press Power & Volume Up together.
4. Choose what happens:
   • Vibrate: Phone calls and notifications vibrate
   • Mute: Phone calls and notifications are silent
   • Do nothing

Turn your volume up or down

1. Press a volume button.
2. At the right, tap the Down arrow .
3. Choose the volume type:
   • Media  (music, videos, games, other media)
   • Ring  (calls, notifications)
   • Alarm 

Tip: You can also change volumes from your Settings app  Sound.

Turn on vibrate

To have your phone vibrate only (not make sounds), press and hold the volume down button until your phone vibrates.

If your media volume gets turned down instead:

• At the right, tap the Down arrow .
• Slide "Ring" all the way to the left.

Tip: When your phone is in vibrate mode, you'll see Vibrate .

Related resources

• Control your notifications
• Silence your phone with Do Not Disturb
• Set, cancel, or snooze alarms