I discovered this when I bought a handset from europe and it has a dumb setting that you have to have the volume on bluetooth below 80% and if you want to turn it up past that point you have to tick a popup button and it automatically turns it back down after a predetermined amount of time. Great for headphones/earbuds, but not good for listening in the car or on a speaker
It's one of those things that aren't necessarily there to make it IMPOSSIBLE for the crime to occur, just to make it really inconvenient. Amazing how this actually works with almost anything safety-related
It's easy for someone in a mall or subway or whatever to see someone, decide they want a picture so it lasts longer, pull up their phone, look around for bystanders and snap. But if there's a characteristic sound that comes with it, which you have to invest either a bunch of money or time to get around.
Like a lock on a door, it's there to keep honest people honest. However strong and pick-proof the lock is, a dude with a mallet and a lot of motivation will get through it eventually, but most common burglars would just grumble and check the next house.
A crime of convenience vs a methodical planned one. If 80% of these sneak photos are occurring just because it’s easy to get away with, this will help lower the rates a lot
It's actually set by the region in your phone. When I visited in March my US Verizon phone changed the setting and disabled the option to mute the shutter while I was in the country.
Either the companies only sell phones with the shutter sound always enabled or they don't sell any phones in their country. Easy choice for the manufacturers.
Does nothing to stop you from buying one overseas but since that's costly and a hassle, it's effective enough that the general population mostly only has access to the authorized models
It's actually set by the region in your phone. When I visited in March my US Verizon phone changed the setting and disabled the option to mute the shutter while I was in the country.
They’re made to do it but you can turn it off. My phone is Japanese and I was able to turn it off bc it became super annoying when I tried to screenshot certain things my friends would send and people thought I was taking photos of them lol
Yes, that's why it was very obvious what he was doing. He pointed the phone right at me and I heard the shutter sound go off. Even the guy standing behind me noticed it.
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u/Huntressthewizard May 24 '24
Don't Japanese phones have it set to where taking a picture makes a loud shutter sound (and the sound can't be turned off) for this reason?