The Sound iPhone Makes Every Time You Click A Picture? It's Actually From An Old Canon Camera

You know that shutter sound your iPhone makes when you click a photo? If it sounds familiar to you, there¡¯s a reason for that.

It¡¯s because it¡¯s the sound of a Canon SLR camera snapping a picture. For real!

In an interview with CNBC earlier this week, Jim Reekes detailed just how the sound effect came to be.

Reekes was a sound engineer at Apple in the late 1980s, and he¡¯s responsible for using the shutter sound of his old Canon AE-1 from high school on the iPhone camera, as well as the click an Apple Mac makes when you take a screenshot, among other things.

¡°Any time you take a photo with the iPhone it¡¯s my camera, which kind of freaks me out because, even to this day when I hear people take photos with their iPhone I look to see who stole my camera,¡± Reekes said.

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Unfortunately for Reekes, his work didn¡¯t win him any Apple royalties, tech industry contracts being what they are.

In addition, he left the company at an inopportune time in the late 1990¡¯s missing out on the stock options that came soon after. Had he stuck around, he might¡¯ve owned upwards of $8 million today in Apple stock.