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How to turn off the camera sound on an iPhone with the ring/silent switch
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Why can't I turn my camera sound off?

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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! Instead, you have one of 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 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.
Mute switch: 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 off sometimes and on at others. However, the Silent switch is a system-wide mute, so no iPhone sounds will be made.
Set system volume to zero: You can also or instead set your alert sounds volume to zero. If Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Change with Buttons is enabled, you can use the Control Center or the side volume down button. However, if that switch is disabled, you have to separately slide the Ringer and Alerts level to the far left in Settings > Sounds & Haptics.

One further note: A few countries require a shutter sound on devices that take photos. While in those countries, which include Japan and South Korea, the snapshot sound will always trigger. It appears to be based on the SIM, as travelers from other countries who swap in a local SIM find their snapshot preference overridden.

This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Ron.

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To turn off the camera sound on your iPhone, flip the Ring/Silent switch to Silent.
You can also silence the shutter noise by enabling the Live Photos feature before taking a picture.
Since Live Photos are essentially mini-videos, they will take up more storage space than still photos.

Sometimes, you just want to snap pictures on your iPhone discreetly. Unfortunately, the camera's shutter sound can give you away. And the annoying part is that there's no setting you can change to silence it – a major design oversight on Apple's part.

Luckily, there are two workarounds that can allow you to turn off the shutter noise your iPhone camera makes. That way, you can be a photo-snapping ninja.

How to turn off the camera sound on an iPhone with the ring/silent switch

The easiest way to silence the Camera's shutter sound is to put your iPhone in Silent mode.

Just flip the Ring/Silent switch – located on the left side of your phone – down, revealing the orange color behind it, and the camera won't make noise when taking a picture.

Flip the Ring/Silent switch to Silent mode. Stefan Ionescu

The trade-off here is that this will silence the iPhone's ringer as well, meaning you'll have to rely on vibrations to alert you of notifications and calls.

How to turn off the camera sound on an iPhone with Live Photos

If you don't want to put your iPhone in Silent mode but still want to turn off the shutter noise, you can take a Live Photo — a picture that is a seconds-long mini video with audio — instead.

Here's how to take a Live Photo on an iPhone:

1. Open the Camera app on your iPhone.

2. Check the concentric circles at the top of the screen. If they're yellow, the Live Photos feature is on. But if they're white with a slash running through them, it's off – tap those white circles to enable it.

When the concentric circles at the top are yellow, Live Photo mode has been enabled. Stefan Ionescu

3. Tap the Shutter button, and you'll notice that the camera will take a picture without making the shutter sound.

Tap the "Shutter" button. Stefan Ionescu

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How do I turn off the camera noise?

Step 1: To do this, tap the Volume Down button while watching the screen volume slider descend and then disappear. Step 2: Once the volume is all the way down, the phone will switch to a vibrate mode, and then most models will completely silence your phone. Either vibrate or full silence should mute the shutter noise.

Is there a way to turn off camera sound on iPhone?

You can adjust the sound of the shutter in Camera , or mute it using the Ring/Silent switch on the side of your iPhone.

Why can't I turn my camera sound off?

This is to prevent any privacy violations (such as pictures being taken of people without their consent). If your software is up-to-date and you still can't turn off the camera sound, this is likely due to the privacy regulations in your country.