Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS?
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The amusing thing is that shutters don't sound like that: the iPhone 'shutter sound' is the sound of a camera with a motor drive. Looking it up, I think it's a Canon AE-1 with a motor drive.
I guess the interface to change the size of the torch beam could be considered skeuomorphic too; it's actually a pretty new setting for the flashlight. They could have just used a classic slider like they do for screen brightness or volume, but they didn't.
It’s my understanding that the shutter sound is intended to be a deterrent to creepshotting, and that it cannot be disabled on phones sold in Japan.
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