Custom text tones for Messages on Mac???

[petekjohnson]

Hey I use a different custom ringtone and text tone for my main contacts, including ones I installed myself on iOS using iMazing. This works exactly like it should. However, on macOS, setting tones (in the Contacts app) SEEMS to be limited ONLY to the ones built-in to macOS (and located in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/AlertTones. Sounds in /Library/Sounds or ~/Library/Sounds do not appear.

Does anyone know of any way to use custom tones on mac Messages??

Thanks

Pete

 

[BrianBaughn]

I haven't seen one for the "sealed" versions of macOS.

 

[petekjohnson]

I haven't seen one for the "sealed" versions of macOS.

Presumably one could perform the necessary voodoo of disabling SIP, going to Recovery to execute csrutil authenticated-root disable, mount the System volume and copy the files, and bless a new snapshot of the volume using a command such as sudo bless --folder /[mountpath]/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi --create-snapshot

This is all problematic and when i experimented with it when Big Sur was new, i had trouble getting it back to a condition where Apple Pay or Touch ID and so forth would work again. I probably did something wrong.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Probably a wrong presumption.

 

[petekjohnson]

Probably a wrong presumption.

Well, "presumably" is a bad choice of words. It IS possible, but you cant ever re-seal the SSV afterwards and i believe that its undone each time you do a macOS update of some kind

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/25/big-surs-signed-system-volume-added-security-protection/

Would be nice if there wa simply an alternate /Library location.

 

[BrianBaughn]

It seems like an omission for macOS. Other, similar things work like that with stuff in the User folder.