The Repeat Spot makes for a great bedside alarm clock with Alexa congenital in, but if you're a footling wary of a camera pointing directly at your bed, here's how to disable it completely.

In that location are a couple of ways to disable the photographic camera on the Echo Spot. Perhaps the quickest and easiest way is past striking the mute button on the top of the device in betwixt the 2 book buttons.

Notwithstanding, this will disable both the camera and the microphone, which means you lot won't be able to use Alexa and give her voice commands. The good news, though, is that Amazon built in a way to disable just the camera and leave the microphone on.

You can do this by merely proverb, "Alexa, turn the camera off". This volition disable the camera from being used with certain features, like video chatting and the Photograph Booth feature.

Y'all can also disable the camera from the Repeat Spot'southward settings bill of fare. To practice that, swipe downward from the top of the screen and tap on the settings gear icon.

Scroll down and tap on "Device Options".

Roll down and tap on the toggle switch adjacent to "Camera" to disable it.

You'll go a alert message telling you that some features will exist disabled. Hit the arrow to confirm.

Now, if you're actually paranoid, you can too just put a piece of tape over the photographic camera to completely cake information technology—which nosotros recommend doing on your PC, too. Just make sure that you don't cover upwardly the ambient low-cal sensor that sits correct next to the photographic camera on the left side, which is used to automatically conform the screen'due south effulgence based on the corporeality of light in the room (if you have this feature enabled, which information technology is by default).

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