Comment by plausibility
2 days ago
My understanding is it's like iPhone purchased in Japan always having the shutter noise no matter where they're taking a picture.
Apple Watches purchased and activated in USA after the patent lawsuit cut off date won't have the feature enabled, even if you travel or move.
That's plain wrong. iPhone uses sim data or something to enable/disable that noise. Source: myself with two iPhones bought in Japan and used both there and in the EU.
This is a recent change, until about 3 iPhone models ago it worked how GP described it