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Jarrett Fuller [sic]: It’s 2026 and when I click the button on my glass phone, it makes a shutter sound! There are still skeuomorphs in iOS after all! The skeuomorphic designs of the early camera simulated a shutter closing and opening when you a took a photo but that’s long been replaced with just a subtle blink of the screen. And yet! The shutter sounds remains. As Fuller writes, it might be the very last one. I would also make a case for the lock sound. It is not quite the padlock noise it used to be, but it definitely retains a mechanical quality that resembles what it is supposed to be. One nitpick: […] (The irony is not lost on me that this new phone actually does have a physical shutter. That shutter, though, is silent. Apple is essentually simulating the shutter sound while a real shutter is actually firing.) The new iPhone has physical aperture blades on its main camera, but I am pretty certain it, like all iPhone cameras before, continues to use an electronic rolling…

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