Great, but still not good to reset the PRAM with Option Command P R, since after the first chime, the setting is reset and no second chime is heard! Is there any way to fix that with the new Macs?
Because that chime settings are stored in NVRAM. Option Command P R basically wiping entire NVRAM contents and it’s explained why it’s gone.
I also want to confirm this tricks works on my employer 2018 MacBook Pro 15, albeit being muddy compared with native chime in my Mac Pro.
now we just need the glowing Apple Logo and the sleep pulse light back and we're good!![]()
Nice work @BigMcGuire!
I forgot about the sleep pulse light. I miss it 😢 I have a 2014 MacBook Air currently, so I still have Magsafe, but when I upgrade I'm really going to miss that, too.
These sentences have a nice poetic rhythm to them.Ahh yes, the sleep pulse light. How I miss nights with it’s deceptively bright pulsating glow, lighting up the room every 10 seconds or so!
At one time just about all PCs provided some sort of sound to indicate that the POST (power-on self-test) had successfully finished. On DOS and Windows PCs, that was a simple beep. Apple took it a bit further.Why would they remove it anyway?
I didn't know this. I wonder why. Is it interfering with their failed butterfly keyboard?Apple disabled the startup sound on new Macs in 2016, and while a couple of tricks have worked in the past to get the chime back, updates to macOS appear to have stopped them working.
Make an entry in com.apple.boot.plist, survives a restart. (AFAIK)
Edit: The Easy Way To Edit com.apple.Boot.plist
Confirmed to work on my 16" MBP, so I would guess it works on just about anything currently available.
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Just curious... Do you know what you actually change in this plist if you want to make this permanent?
Admittedly it did catch me out back in the day, I've since reduced the decibels.Yeah, there might have been an option by muting the sound before you shutdown your Mac. Something like that, but I do remember it was annoying the hell out of me!
Confirmed to work on my 16" MBP, so I would guess it works on just about anything currently available.
Just curious... Do you know what you actually change in this plist if you want to make this permanent?
I am going to try putting “StartupMute=%00” inside kernel flags.
Why on earth would you want that back?! Smh
I can’t remember there being an option to turn it off, without using terminal!
Pretty sure you can, but there is no explicit option for it.
I'll have to experiment but I'm sure I achieved it by adjusting the sound effects part of sys prefs. Playing system sounds through internal and setting volumes down - something like that.
This, most likely, it has been a long time since I edited the boot.plist.
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I have my doubts it works like down in the screenshot.
Been too long...
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I thought the control was a little finer than that.If the system volume is at zero a Mac that chimes will not chime when it turns on.
I have never seen a toggle in sys prefs for disabling the chime, I have heard of scripts that do it, but the only way I have been able to stop it is with volume all the way down.I thought the control was a little finer than that.
In fact I know it is. The system volume doesn’t have to be zero. At least not on a Mac Pro 1,1 or 5,1. A Mini 8,1 or a MacBook Pro 11,4.
Sorry no. I was not clear. There is no toggle. But I’m dead sure it can be made to do it without.I have never seen a toggle in sys prefs for disabling the chime, I have heard of scripts that do it, but the only way I have been able to stop it is with volume all the way down.
Sorry no. I was not clear. There is no toggle. But I’m dead sure it can be made to do it without.
Ah. That must be what I did then. I couldn’t remember exactly how but I know I did it without scripts.I have never seen a toggle in sys prefs for disabling the chime, I have heard of scripts that do it, but the only way I have been able to stop it is with volume all the way down.
Edit: I just did some tests.
With volume set to 1 and 2 and my Mac doesn't chime.
At 3 and it chimes.
Yeah, it doesn't work, at least on my iMac Pro.
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I have missed this chime on my iMac Pro! Makes rebooting into Boot Camp my easier!
While we’re at it, Apple, can we get the sleep indicator light and the battery indicates lights back please?