Sometimes it's best for your Mac to be seen and not heard. Applications and services often make a sound associated with their notification, but did you know that sound can be deactivated? Here's how.
First of all, you can always mute the audio on your Mac all together — and sometimes that's a good idea. But other times you may want to hear audio from some apps (like iTunes, for example), but you may want to selectively shut off notification noises from others.
You can see in the screenshot that I have two programs open at the same time. The top one is Firefox playing a Youtube video and I was able to mute it separately. A downside of this method is that not all applications appear there. As far as I know, it's only for those which use ALSA. Just give it a try, it works fine for me with some programs. Oct 14, 2019 Mainly it works with Apple’s first-party applications like Safari App, Mail App, Calendar App, Contacts, Pages, Maps and few third-party applications too. There are iPhone users who didn’t like the Handoff feature and looking to turn off Handoff feature on iPhone, iPad and on Mac, Apple Watch. May 23, 2018 For example, you could have one app play audio through your headphones and another app play it through your speakers. This feature was added in Windows 10’s April 2018 Update. On Windows 7, this requires third-party apps like Audio Router or CheVolume if the application in question doesn’t have its own sound device selection options.
It's pretty easy to tailor these sorts of sounds, though it can be an arduous process. Here's how to get started.
To turn off notification sounds on your Mac
- Click on the menu.
- Select System Preferences...
- Click on Notifications.
- Click on the name of the app whose behavior you'd like to modify.
- Uncheck Play sound for notifications.
That'll do it. Now you'll continue to get alerts from the application, but you'll be free of any annoying notification noises associated with it.
I said it's an arduous process up front. That's because Notification Center in OS X doesn't give a global setting to shut off audio notifications from all apps. You'll need to click on each individual application in that list inside the Notifications system preference and uncheck the Play sound for notifications preference to shut them all up. But this does give you fine control over what can and can't make noise at you while you're using your Mac.
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This won't shut off all sound from those applications — if they're active, and sound is part of what they do, they'll continue to make noise. But if you find the constant 'ding' of incoming mail to be distracting, for example, this is an easy way to shut that off without taking away from the auditory experience of the rest of your Mac.
Any questions? Let me know!
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