Turn OFF Camera Sound On iPhone X

The iPhone X smartphone is built with new top of the line cameras. With all that technology behind the lens, it would be ironic if you don’t know how to take silent pictures on your phone’s camera with no sound. The camera shutter sound can be annoying to some people, especially if you take dozens of selfies in a day. It would be best just to take silent pictures instead.

For people living in the United States, taking silent pictures is illegal in some states, as the law provides that cell phones with digital cameras must produce a sound when taking a picture. The following instructions will show you how to turn off the camera sound on the iPhone X, or at least, just turn down camera shutter sound on the device.

Plugging headphones in won’t work

If you think that plugging your headphones into the iPhone X works, it doesn’t. Most likely than not, when you plug your headphones, all sounds coming from the device will be played through the headphones. But with the iPhone X, this will not work, as the smartphone segregates the media audio from notification sounds, so the shutter sound of your camera can still be heard despite the headphones.

Mute or turn down the volume of your iPhone X

Alternatively, you can try turning off the camera sounds on the iPhone X by decreasing the volume on the smartphone. The way you can do this is by pressing repeatedly or holding down the “volume down” button on the side of iPhone X until the phone goes into vibrate mode. When the iPhone X is on mute, the camera shutter sound will be muted when you go take a picture.

Use a third party camera app

The best method to switch off the iPhone X camera sound and take silent pictures is by taking advantage of a third party camera app, such as Capera.