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    Nov 16, 2021 6 minutes
    BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

    HOW TO DISABLE THE CAMERA SHUTTER SOUND ON AN iPHONE OR iPAD

    Apple tries to simulate the experience of a snapshot camera when you take a picture in the Photos app on an iPhone or iPad by issuing a little click sound. Many of us prefer to avoid that sound. Remarkably, there’s no click on/off switch in the Camera settings! You have three alternatives:

    Enable Live Photo: If you’re hearing a click, you don’t have this feature turned on, which retains some still images from before and after the point at which you take a pictures, providing some animation—and audio. If the click were on, it would be captured in a Live Photo. You can have Live Photo always on when you launch the Camera by enabling Settings → Camera → Preserve Settings → Live Photo.

    With the hardware Ring/Silent switch set to Silent, the snapshot sound is disabled. You can flip this switch on and off at will if you prefer to have the click

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