topic Re: Phone rings on silent mode in Galaxy S21

Phone rings on silent mode

userjc2NdRE5ZJ — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:49:05 GMT

I put my phone on silent when I'm in a theater or meeting. After last update, it now rings when call comes in and makes notification sound for incoming texts. I don't want to shut phone off. What is my alternative? This never used to occur.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

doodooface — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:52:46 GMT

You can turn your notification noises off by swiping down on the top of your phone screen. Click on the button next to your volume slider. When it has jagged lines and a line across the speaker, it will be on vibrate. If the button is greyed out, it is on silent. If the button has two lines next to it and the backdrop of the button is white, it is on loud.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

doodooface — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:53:51 GMT

This is the button you would have to click to customize your notifications and call sounds.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

doodooface — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:55:41 GMT

You can also customize your notifications for individual apps in your settings. Go to Settings >> Notifications >> Notification Sounds (Sounds and Vibrations) and from there you can freely customize your notifications.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

nullandvoid — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:40:50 GMT

You can also use theater mode for meetings (it should be preconfigured on your phone), or create a mode called "meeting mode" and set the parameters for silencing what needs to be silenced. Once you turn that mode off, your phone will return to normal. Just plain old do not disturb works, too (unless you have it set to let certain calls and notifications through).

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

userjc2NdRE5ZJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:27:46 GMT

same issue. I don't want to go to theater mode. I want my phone to vibrate like it used to. Why would Samsung install this awful change?

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

nullandvoid — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:53:58 GMT

You can still put your phone on vibrate, just hold the volume down button until it goes to vibration. Most people were complaining that they did not like that they couldn't use to button to go past vibrate to mute with the button push. You want your phone to vibrate, so you are in luck, it still works. I don't understand what you have against theater (or any mode) - it's a quick way to set your volume/notification parameters when you don't want noise. You can configure it any way you want - in the example above, just turn sound mode and volume to vibrate instead of mute.

There are many paths up the mountain. Use the one you like best.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

EmperorDP — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:06:53 GMT

My phone is on vibrate but still has some doorbell theme when messages or calls come in. I do not want to hear that.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

nullandvoid — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:27:24 GMT

is the doorbell your default notification or ringtone? Have you checked the volume panel to make sure all the volume sliders are down and the phone is actually on vibrate? Your phone should not make any sound at all when you have it set to vibrate. Is this a recent occurrence? Have you cleared your phone's cache partition?

Re: Re: Phone rings on silent mode

EmperorDP — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:31:54 GMT

Nope. This is super recent. I'm actually about to call support. It doesn't even use my normal ring tones

Re: Re: Phone rings on silent mode

nullandvoid — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:01:41 GMT

Did you recently download any app that may cause the sound settings to be overridden? Activated any accessibility settings? You can download Good Lock's Nice Catch module to see if the sound is coming from a rogue app.

Re: Phone rings on silent mode

EmperorDP — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:05:14 GMT

Nothing downloaded

Re: Re: Re: Phone rings on silent mode

EmperorDP — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:07:35 GMT

There was an update last night and it no longer does it

Re: Re: Phone rings on silent mode

AndriiS — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:50:33 GMT

I have the same issue. This has started yesterday, I made no changes