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I forgot there even was sound until you mentioned it

Legit haven’t heard any of the sounds since 2017 lol

Probably the only time I turned sound back on was for Go Fest when they said they put out special music.

The only time sound goes back on for me, is when it randomly decides to turn itself back on after an update.

👆🏼 Yup! Same here.

Came here to say that

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came here to say that

This

Didn't come here to day that, because that's literally what the upvote button is for

Muted here too. I unmuted for the special music event a while back… for about 4 seconds.

Have had it muted for a while too since I got back into the game almost 2 years ago I believe only turned it back on for the Halloween town music

To be honest that GoFest song was pretty dope.

This. Forgot what it even sounds like.

It gets very old, very quickly.

Niantic tells me to be aware of my surroundings!

You could say, the sound becomes quite... *noisy*... after a while...

It does have a noise. A noisy noise. A noisy noise the sounds.....noisy

Can you hear it Mr. Krabs

Sponge me boi…. I need more of that…… secret formula

Oh god… r/unexpectedmeatcanyon

This quiet offends Slaanesh! THINGS WILL GET LOUD NOW!

All is dust, Noise Marine.

#AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRGGG! - World Eater

But have you ever heard it in the wild? I heard someone playing sound on recently. My lizard brain knew what it was before I even registered It.

How could you forget....it's burned into my brain circuits.

I actually put the sound on recently, and I felt like I was transported back to 2016. The nostalgia hit me like a truck

My partner plays with the sound on. It makes me want to stab something.

I agree with this… mine also does the same.

Same

Been on mute for years for me, whenever I log out and sound turns back on I’m always surprised

Wait, there's sound!?!

came to say this. now remembering the loading screen had a song

Same. No sound for me.

This

All sound off from 2016 lol Edit: when reading the in game news about special music I think ‘I wonder what that sounds like’ and proceed to keep it all switched off

This. If I’m playing pogo then I’m either listening to actual music or watching YouTube or something while I catch.

I might listen if it changed but I’m not listening to the same 30 seconds of song on loop

Same

The only way to play. When someone else is playing with sound on I get confused and worried.

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Yep. Gf was playing the other day and I was like wtf is this music? And realized it was the game lol

Had to reread it. I first read it as “who would play with sound on?” Because playing with the sound is preposterous

Same lol!

Same again. 100% muted

Same

Same!

Same

Same!

This game has sound?

Yes, when you take a picture of a pokemon it does a jumpscare sound that can't be turned off.

That’s only if you have a phone from a certain country. Some countries have privacy laws that force the phones from those countries to always make a sound when the camera is used. Mine does not do this.

Well, TIL. But does it have to be so LOUD? My camera is silent outside of the game, too.

This. Playing while on the crapper. Playing with the buddy and snapshotting must sound like I’m taking dick pics

Oh that’s strange then… Not sure why it would do it in game, but not outside 🤔

My Samsung S10+ would do that all the time even when on silent mode. I now have a Pixel 7 and thankfully if my phone is on mute I don't get no camera jump scares

My pixel still breaks through the buddy picture sound, been that way for years 😒

I mainly play while at work and I need my notification sound on at work so I have to listen to it. But when it's not on I don't hear it

All the sounds play? You can turn them all down inside the game. The noise I’m talking about is the buddy picture sound, which plays despite being turned down inside Pokémon go. I have to turn down the entire system sound to avoid the Pokémon go buddy picture sound.

No no no I mean the camera sounds. I turned down all the music and game sounds the second I first opened the game. I legit forgot there was music and sound effects in the game until this reddit post

Because the game always makes the camera sound regardless of what phone you have. There is simply no option in the game to turn it off. What I suspect you have done to prevent it is muted your whole phone, rather than just the game sound. You're correct about the privacy laws. Some phones will still make the camera sound even if the phone sound it turned down.

I'm located in the US, so it might be different where you live, but the only time the camera sound scares the crap out of me is when I forget to turn down the media volume after I was listening to some music or an audiobook.

On my Google Pixel (and probably all Android devices) when I take a picture of my buddy, it plays the Pokémon Go sound despite being on silent. The only way to avoid it is to turn your volume all the way down. My iPhone doesn’t have this problem.

Pixel 6 owner here, same thing. Pretty sure it's an OS issue.

This is the most annoying shit. I always have to remember to turn the sound down on my phone if I'm in AR mode.

Lol this constantly jumpscares me when I have my phone linked to my speakers

It is a jumpscare

Put phone on silent, it fixes that. Well for my iPhone at least.

Obviously, I meant it can't be turned off IN the game, which is just stupid.

This actually scares the crap out of me when I'm listening to a podcast or something while playing

Half? From my experience here in Japan no one plays with the sound on. It’s considered rude to walk around playing sound from your phone. I always keep it off

TIL I need to move to Japan

So people aren’t walking around on speaker phone for no reason? Count me in.

It’s not 0% but probably a lot less common than the US. There’s one old dude who rides around on a bicycle blasting music in my neighborhood but virtually no one plays music/sound on their phones on the bus or train. Sometimes they play music super loud with headphones on that you can still hear it - and worry about their hearing - but no one blasting speakers. That said there are other quirky Japan-only things that can be annoyingly loud. During election seasons politicians ride around on vans blasting their campaign info all the time. Trucks advertising junk collection blast ads too. Winter time brings the yaki-imo trucks (roasted sweet potato) which have a super loud whistle and droning voice. Plus trucks that advertise selling kerosine for heating. You also occasionally get bikers who blast past on modified bikes made to be super loud And lord help you if you wander into a pachinko parlor

When I visited Japan in 2019, I legitimately have never felt as discombobulated and on-edge in my life as I was in one of those pachinko parlors. I’m not hyperbolizing when I say it legitimately sounded like I was inside of a jet engine. What made this experience even more chilling is that it seemed like the excruciatingly loud droning noise is a brainwashing tactic to make everyone tune it out and shut their brain off, thereby enabling them to mindlessly continue gambling. Don’t get me wrong, I loved my time in Japan, but this experience left me disturbed for a day or two.

In my neighborhood here in the USA teenagers walk around blasting awfully offensive music from their Bluetooth speakers. I’ve confronted a few with the expected response being the outcome. Mostly spoiled kids saying “well my parents bought it for me so I am going to use it”. This is also starting to occur more often at public events such as holiday parades and festivals among adults. Annoying as hell.

Bro that’s so rude, I always make sure not even the slightest sound comes out of my headphones when I’m even just with my family in the car

its rude where I live but a lot of young boys don't care  I will only use sound with earbuds tho

I second this. I'm in Germany and I find it rude if people walk around and their phone makes noses. If you want to hear anything in public use headphones.

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I agree with you. I’ve raided a lot back when I was living in Japan and all of the local players (even in a big crowd waiting for raids/ex-raids or in events) have their sound off. It was weird during the Safari Zone in Yokosuka when I heard the BGM of the game while walking around because it was played on the sound system at the nearby shopping district. 😂

It’s considered rude to do that in UK also but SO MANY people walk around playing music from their phones, especially on public transport 😅

I do. It was the 1st thing I did.

Exactly

My phone is on permanent mute except when playing music lol

Exactly, i have no idea how the sounds even are on Pokemon go,

Same

It’s a game you play out in public, I’d imagine 99% play with sound off.

Definitely agree with this! When I play at this one park in my area there’s 40-50 people on community days and no one with sound on lol

40-50? :O I smile when I see 1 person playing across the street.

All sounds off all the time.

Who plays with it ON is the question

My sister doesn’t play this game, but she never turns sound off on any other games or her phone, so I’m sure she would leave it on for this too. Obnoxious.

It really is. It's telling everyone around you that you're more important than them.

My younger sister is just like that I always have to be the one telling her to turn down her sound at restaurants and stuff because my parents are usually busy ordering and she doesn’t have much common sense

I play music off, sounds on, as this game is so laggy sometimes I can't tell visually if a button press actually registered or not, and also I like to hear the pokemon sound bytes.

My 9 year old son insists on it. He’s the only person I know that does.

I always play with the sound off.

All sounds off since 2016. I don’t think anyone I play with has the game music or sound effects on.

First thing I did in 2016 was turn off all the sound and notifications.

Always off.

Should do a poll for this

You can’t do a poll in this subreddit, sadly

I think you’re a sicko if you have it on personally.

The amount of people that play with sound is equal to the amount of people that use Niantic AR “AR+” to catch pokemon.

I've probably met roughly 15 to 20 people in real life that play this game since I started. Not a single one of them uses AR+ or has their sound on. LOL

I don’t see a point of it so mines off

Always off, don't want to annoy everyone else around you now, would you?

For some reason, I never heard sound or music until one day I played with AirPods in. I was horrified. Sound off for life.

Me. I don’t like explaining why I play Pokémon go lol

If anyone ever mentions it, my answer is always "hell yeah, gotta catch 'em all" and that's always the only explanation that's given or even requested. No one cares after that lol

Lol that’s good one

I just don't like being rude to everyone else.

Isn’t the better question who pays with the sound on? I feel like that’s weird

I turn it on when I evolve or catch a new one 🫢

I, in fact, hate anytime my phone makes noise. I don’t know what music or sounds come from practically any installed game. At most it vibrates when something needs attention, but even that is almost too much

Same. I judge people whose ringtones go off. 😆😆 I haven’t heard my phone’s ringtone in 5 years.

> I haven’t heard my phone’s ringtone in 5 years. Haha are you me?

Im sound off as well. The only time my sound is on is right when im about to battle Giovanni.

I like to have sound on but because I also tend to open the game where I don’t want to suddenly have Pokémon go music blasting, so I keep it off and don’t remember to turn it back on.

Sound off because it's annoying and also interferes with music I may be listening to

Play with sound off to save your battery. I personally believe casual players play with sound on, and there’s nothing wrong with that it’s enjoyable if you haven’t heard that same track 100 times.

The game has sound?

i play with music off but sound on because i like it

No sound ever

I always have my sound off EXCEPT when my kid is playing with my pokedex because he is a pre-schooler and he loves to hear them. Otherwise, I hate it. Actually, I hate it then too but what can ya do?

TLDR Pokémon go music Bum bum Bum bum bum bum bum (bum bum) Bum bum Bum b-b-b-b-b-b-buuuuuum Bum bum (Bum) Bum bum bum b-b-b-bumbum Bum bum bum buuuuuum Bum bum bum b-b-b-bumbum Bum bum bum buuuuuum Bum bum bum bum bum Bum bum bum bum Bum-bum-bum Bum-bum-bum Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM BUUUUM

I refuse to play with sound. It’s annoying as hell.

I turn it on and off depending on my mood, but primarily it’s off.

omfg this post is so funny lol i play with sound on 😭 i get sad when there’s people around and i have to turn it off lol

no shame friend, well.. only a little 

I play sound on too! I think it's silly not too.

I normally play with it off but recently turned it back on when playing with headphones

I play with sound off. Not like I can hear the shinies spawn while walking. Only when you click on them

Me. No music. No sound. It doesn't bother me.one bit.

I do, but my son has all sounds and music on full blast.

Who plays with song and sound effects in public? I would MAYBE have these, but I feel really stupid when having some random music turned on while.I'm surounded by people. Also it's not really important to have these effects, you have vibrations when pokemon spawn, so music is irrelevant

I’ve almost exclusively played every single Pokémon game without the sound on. The sounds kind of drive me crazy tbh 😅

I've even turned off the vibration when pokemon pop up setting

I don't think I've ever played any phone game with sound on, ever. It just feels wrong. And it annoys me when I realize I have sound on and hear any game sound whatsoever. Even videos I tend to play on the quietest sound option. I'd rather put it against my ear on quietest mode than bump up the volume. Phone speakers don't tend to be the greatest and as it goes louder or higher pitched they have this weird vibrations that just pierce my ears and make them feel like they're vibrating I can't fully explain (on any model, I tested phones a good while and there's no exceptions to the rule for me) but dear Lord does it make me want to trash my surroundings

I play with the sound off cause I usually play in public/on public transportation and I listen to music/podcasts while playing so I don’t want to hear the in game sounds 😅

Sound off since forever. I don't care for the music, I don't like the sound of a Pokemon appearing, etc, etc. I prefer my own music.

I never have music on and only occasionally have sound on such as if I'm at home catching.

off

Of course sound off

Haven’t had any sound since I learned how to turn it off.

All sounds off in every game always.

I always keep my phone on silent

i love having sound on :)

I'll put sound on to hear new things, or to really get in the mood, otherwise it's off or I'm probably playing spotify

I turned off the sound about 2 days in. It’s overstimulating to me, my husband on the other hand has it on full volume the whole time.

Sound off from day 1. I couldn’t even tell you what any of the sounds are.

All sound turned to 0 and also my phone at 0

Sound is always off and phone is on mute most of the time!

i play with the music off, does that count?

There's sound & music in Pokemon games? Lol I only have sound effects on in Legends Arceus to hear Shinys. It's missed sorely in the new ones

They haven’t updated the sounds since 2016 so I’m definitely not listening to that.

Literally never played with sound and I downloaded the game the day it came out.

Sound off, ALMOST all the time.

me

Never play with sound

Playing since 2016. Every now and then I turn on the sound to hear Pikachu. I have never listened to any other sound in the game.

I've never turned the sound on

I didn’t even realise the game has a sound option. Everyday is a school day I suppose.

Game is so freaking loud, I usually have mine very low or off. Sound set at the lowest setting and I still have to turn main volume to the min.

All sounds off since day 1

There's sound??? Lol I keep forgetting because mine is permanently off. I'll go walking with my husband and there's this weird background noise I keep hearing... He usually has his sound on. The only GRRR thing is, the game will still make a loud BLING noise when I snap a picture in the game. Kind of embarrassing if I'm at work lol. Oops.

Sound off because the loading screen is kinda obnoxiously loud .

Sound off since 2016. All of my apps are set to silence, even my texts and calls.

After playing the game since beta and having to hear the same sounds over and over again I turned it off. Only time it was on is when they have lavender town playing during the Halloween even and when they did that Ed Sheeran thing. Biggest pet peeve is when someone plays their game volume at full blast.

Haven’t heard the sounds of the game since 2016

I rather listen to music/podcasts. I think I used sounds the first day in 2016, but after that, it's been off.

Sounds been off since launch

I turned the music off the second day I had the game back in 2016. Couldn’t even tell you what the music sounds like at this point lol

Sounds been off since day 1. I've turned it on out of curiousity a few times but it doesn't stay on for very long.

Sound is always off.

Mines fully muted

Mines been muted since I started playing lol

I do. Only turn it on when they do the special 8bit songs.

Go sound off, podcast sound on.

First thing I did as well when I started playing in 2017, never put it on again.

I had no clue people played this game with sound on.

Sound off. I'm trying to play a game, not overstimulate the neighborhood. In fact, I've uninstalled some promising phone games because they didn't give an option to turn their music and sound effects OFF.

Haven’t had sound on for years.

My phone is pretty much always muted unless I’m watching a video so... sound off

only sound on during halloween when lavender town music is live.

I’ve actually forgotten the game even has sound…

I always play with the sound off. It’s usually to listen to podcasts have conversations.

100% Muted, always.

Sound off, saves battery

Muted

I play on mute.

I play a lot while riding the bus, so I keep the sound off.

Definitely muted. The repetitive track would get to me.

Wait, people play with the sound on?!?!?!?!

I've completely muted it. My boyfriend has all sounds on and I hate it 😂

Dmmm i no remember the last time i heard the sound of the game

Pretty much always off. Only on if I reinstall the game or I remember there's special music and I turn it in for 30 seconds to see what it sounds like.

My sound is always off