Turning off camera shutter sound in iPhone 6

I just received my new iPhone 6. I know that you can mute the camera shutter sound by muting the phone with the button on the side, but this just doesn't work for iPhone 6. Is it just me? How can I fix it?

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8

Posted on Sep 20, 2014 2:05 AM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2014 11:49 PM

Are you in Japan? If you are then you can't turn off the shutter sound, even if you turn the ringer off. Phones in Japan do not allow people to silence the shutter noise. It is to prevent people from taking sneak photos.

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Nov 21, 2016 11:18 AM in response to Hannah_Newton

So what if you bought it in the country you reside (Australia) and the **** reseller (Kogan...an Aussie company) has imported them from Japan? Doesn't the reseller have a responsibility to inform the customer that the phone has differences to the ones usually sold here? I am NOT happy about the camera sound and would have bought it somewhere else had I known.

Nov 21, 2016 11:35 AM in response to lntppq

lntppq wrote:


So what if you bought it in the country you reside (Australia) and the **** reseller (Kogan...an Aussie company) has imported them from Japan? Doesn't the reseller have a responsibility to inform the customer that the phone has differences to the ones usually sold here? I am NOT happy about the camera sound and would have bought it somewhere else had I known.

Then your complaint is with the unauthorized reseller. Did they also tell you that the phone will have no warranty in Australia?

Dec 4, 2016 7:17 AM in response to Elnymiel

I wouldn't blame Apple for it first, I blame those countries (Korea, Japan, India, etc) first for taking on wrong resolution. The perverts should be prevented by introducing higher level of punishments, not by making everyone sacrifice their right for taking silent selfies, taking silent screenshots, taking silent photo of our lovely sleeping babies and the list goes on ... there are hundreds other good use of the silent camera than those perving activities and these countries completely ignored that.


Also, there could be a better way of implementation like making the force-shutter sound only available in those countries so when people are in countries with no such requirement, they can still use the camera without the shutter sound at MAX !!


Few weeks ago I had to work on a presentation amendments on a train with my iPad Pro that I purchased oversea and I needed to take several screenshots & send. My iPad was making sound like a crazy paparazzi and gaining so much attention with its new loud surrounding sound and certainly it was not very comfortable experience.


I was aware of this for phones but I didn't expect that would be a case for iPads too. Seriously ... who is going to take a pervy photo with bloody iPad !!!!

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