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Vibration

Vibrates the device.

Example

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import React from 'react';
import {Button, Platform, Text, Vibration, View, StyleSheet} from 'react-native';
import {SafeAreaView, SafeAreaProvider} from 'react-native-safe-area-context';

const Separator = () => {
  return <View style={Platform.OS === 'android' ? styles.separator : null} />;
};

const App = () => {
  const ONE_SECOND_IN_MS = 1000;
  const PATTERN = [
    1 * ONE_SECOND_IN_MS,
    2 * ONE_SECOND_IN_MS,
    3 * ONE_SECOND_IN_MS,
  ];

  return (
    <SafeAreaProvider>
      <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={[styles.header, styles.paragraph]}>Vibration API</Text>
        <Button title="Vibrate once" onPress={() => Vibration.vibrate()} />
        <Separator />
        <Button
          title="Vibrate with pattern"
          onPress={() => Vibration.vibrate(PATTERN)}
        />
        <Separator />
        <Button
          title="Stop vibration pattern"
          onPress={() => Vibration.cancel()}
          color="#FF0000"
        />
      </SafeAreaView>
    </SafeAreaProvider>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    paddingTop: 44,
    padding: 8,
  },
  header: {
    fontSize: 18,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    textAlign: 'center',
  },
  paragraph: {
    margin: 24,
    textAlign: 'center',
  },
  separator: {
    marginVertical: 8,
    borderBottomColor: '#737373',
    borderBottomWidth: StyleSheet.hairlineWidth,
  },
});

export default App;

Reference

Methods

cancel() Android iOS

static cancel();

Call this to stop vibrating after having invoked vibrate() with repetition enabled.


vibrate() Android iOS

static vibrate(
  pattern?: number | number[],
  repeat?: boolean
);

Triggers a vibration with a fixed duration.

On Android, the vibration duration defaults to 400 milliseconds, and an arbitrary vibration duration can be specified by passing a number as the value for the pattern argument. On iOS, the vibration duration is fixed at roughly 400 milliseconds.

The vibrate() method can take a pattern argument with an array of numbers that represent time in milliseconds. You may set repeat to true to run through the vibration pattern in a loop until cancel() is called.

Parameters:

Name Type Default Description
pattern number (Android) / array of numbers 400 Vibration duration in milliseconds / Vibration pattern as an array of numbers in milliseconds.
repeat boolean false Repeat vibration pattern until cancel().

Last updated: Jul 07, 2026