Android 15 is making me reconsider my no-vibration-ever phone rule

It’s been 20 years since I purchased my first phone, and in these two decades, one rule hasn’t changed: no vibration. Ever. No keyboard haptic feedback, no vibration with phone calls, and definitely no vibration for messages. Every time I bought a new phone, smart or not, I got irked by the constant buzz in my hands and ended up rushing to the settings menu to disable it. It’s literally one of the first settings I change and the one I never touch after.

So when Android 15 rolled out to my Pixel 9 Pro with a new “Adaptive vibration” setting, you can imagine that my first reaction was to shrug that off as a feature I would — quite literally — never use.