Want to disable the camera shutter sound on your Samsung phone? There are several use cases of a silent camera shutter. For wildlife photography, where you don’t want to alert animals to your presence with the shutter sound or shooting on set, at important corporate meetings, and in classrooms.
If you’re in the middle of a presentation or lecture and think the shutter sound will disturb the audience or your peers, you can easily disable the shutter sound and take a photo. Unfortunately, many manufacturers do not let you disable the shutter sound directly. This is to comply with legal regulations and to improve privacy. It’s always good if someone knows they’re being photographed.
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Thankfully, smartphone camera hardware does not physically produce any sound. The shutter sound is from software, and you can easily bypass this and disable the shutter sound.
How to disable the camera shutter sound on your Samsung phone
Note: Companies enable a shutter sound and make it hard to turn off phones to comply with legal regulations. If disabling the shutter sounds breaks the law in your region, we absolutely don’t recommend doing it. Techeaven is not responsible for any legal trouble you may run into or any malpractice. You may proceed at your own risk.
Method 1: Disable Shutter Sound Using ABD Commands
- Open the Settings app on your phone.
- Tap on About Phone. Now, find the Build Number. Tap on the Build Number 7 times.
- This will enable Developer Options on your phone. Quit the app and reopen it, and find Developer Options.
- In Developer Options, find the USB Debugging option.
- Enable USB Debugging and tap on OK when you get the prompt.
- Connect your phone to a PC using a USB-C cable.
- Now, you have to download Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC. After this, you’ll have to extract it.
Links: For Windows, For Linux, For macOS. - After extracting it, you’ll have to add ADB to the path and finally install the relevant Fastboot drivers.
- Open Command Prompt (CMD) and type the below command:
adb shell settings put system csc_pref_camera_forced_shuttersound_key 0 - Hit enter, and this should disable the camera shutter sound on your Samsung phone.
Method 2: Using Bixby Routines & Modes
All you have to do is set up the below Routine and automation on your phone:
Routine: Turn on Manually
Duration: Until I turn it off
Routine: Turn on Automatically
App opened: Camera
Sound Mode: Mute
(This will not let the Camera app use the speakers to make the Shutter Sound).
Choose what this mode does:
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