Startninja sierra6/13/2023 Moreover, there are plenty of programs (such as StartNinja) that promise to disable the chime, but I found that they didn’t work with macOS versions after 10.10. If you’ve somehow managed to linger on an older version of macOS (something we wouldn’t recommend), that process may still work, but the rest of us are stuck with the more temporary solution of muting during startup. Then click the X that appears on the left upper corner of StartNinja 1.0.1 to perform the uninstall. Click and hold StartNinja 1.0.1 icon with your mouse button until it starts to wiggle. Open up Launchpad, and type StartNinja 1.0.1 in the search box on the top. In macOS Sierra, the old trick of copying “sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%80” or “sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%00” into a Terminal window, typing in your password and pressing Enter no longer works. Option 2: Delete StartNinja 1.0.1 in the Launchpad. If you want to take the more drastic step of permanently disabling the startup chime, you’re out of luck. If you’ve forgotten to pre-mute your Mac, you can also hold down F10 (the mute button) during startup. So, if like me, you have a pre-2016 Mac and are still living under the tyranny of the BLANG, there’s a very simple technique you can deploy to get some peace and quiet: simply muting the volume before restarting or switching off is enough to silence the Mac startup chime. Consequently, I did a mini leap of joy when Apple canned the famous F-sharp major note in its latest devices (with the very notable exception of the MacBook Air 13in 2017), meaning that I could now boot up in blissful silence… if I had one of its latest devices. I’m in the latter camp, having repeatedly been left red-faced by the noise in libraries, university lectures and early-morning commuter trains. For some, it was like a war cry for creatives – the noise Steve Wozniak might have made whilst riding into battle against Microsoft. For others, it was just bloody irritating. For almost three decades, the iconic (or, according to its creator Jim Reekes, “earconic”) Mac startup chime heralded the beginning of working days, long essay-writing sessions and gaming marathons. And if you have a laptop, you have one or two small speakers.BLANG. If you have an iMac, you have the same type of speakers as I have in my Cinema Display. If you have a Mac Pro, you have a tiny - and tinny - internal speaker. This shows in the Sound preference pane as Display Audio. I also have a Cinema Display, connected via Thunderbolt, and it has internal speakers so I can set the volume in those. When you use the digital output like this, you cannot control its volume. For example, my main Mac is a Mac mini connected to a DAC via a Toslink cable, which uses the headphone jack. [ kirkmc adds: Depending on your setup, this can be a bit more complicated. If you have an external volume controller for your external speakers, it should still function normally following these changes, but adjusting it will again affect your startup chime volume for those speakers. Since I have external speakers, I chose to mute the startup sound on my internal speakers and set the chime very low on my external speakers. Remember if you mute it there will be no external speaker sound.
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