To help you avoid missing important notifications, your iPhone can give you visual, audio, and haptic feedback every time a notification pops up. If you don’t want your iPhone to ping every time a notification pops up, you can flip the Ring/Silent switch on your iPhone to put it into silent mode when you’re in a meeting or in a quiet place.

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While you may interact with everything on your iPhone’s screen the most, there are still a few physical switches that are functional at their core. On the left side of an iPhone, you’ll notice a switch at the very top, above the physical volume buttons. This is what Apple calls the Ring/Silent Switch, and it’s been found on the top-left side of every iPhone out there, dating back to the very first iPhone.

The Ring/Silent switch can perform two functions: put your iPhone into Ring Mode or activate Silent Mode on the device. The switch can be moved toward or away from the iPhone’s screen to perform your desired action.