Not sure if this is M1 specific or an OS-wide thing.
But I've noticed on my 14" M1 Pro MacBookPro that it has an annoying inconsistency with audio.
I can have my headphones plugged in and audio will still come blasting out of the speakers.
This seems to happen quite a lot after a reboot. As if it forgets the headphones are there.
Pulling the plug out and re-inserting it fixes this usually.
Makes me wonder if there is a microswitch in the headphone jack?
This is another example of Apple fixing something that isn't broken.
Previous to this, on my last 8 or 10 Macs (dozens if I include work computers) plugging in headphones interrupts audio to the speakers automatically. No need to go tell it what to do in a preference pane or system utility.
The headphones and speakers are both 'system audio'.
Now they show up as discrete items in Audio Midi. I can assign system alerts to one and playback to another.
Great.
What is the edge case scenario that necessitates this?
Do people want to listen to Kate Bush on their headphones but bombard anyone nearby with all the alert noises through their speakers?
It's also doing the same thing to the preferences in Logic.
If the headphones are plugged in during a reboot, they do not show up as a choice in audio prefs.
There is just System and Speakers.
So apologies to anyone at this cafe that got an earful of HardIndustrial1006.logicx at 8am.
But I've noticed on my 14" M1 Pro MacBookPro that it has an annoying inconsistency with audio.
I can have my headphones plugged in and audio will still come blasting out of the speakers.
This seems to happen quite a lot after a reboot. As if it forgets the headphones are there.
Pulling the plug out and re-inserting it fixes this usually.
Makes me wonder if there is a microswitch in the headphone jack?
This is another example of Apple fixing something that isn't broken.
Previous to this, on my last 8 or 10 Macs (dozens if I include work computers) plugging in headphones interrupts audio to the speakers automatically. No need to go tell it what to do in a preference pane or system utility.
The headphones and speakers are both 'system audio'.
Now they show up as discrete items in Audio Midi. I can assign system alerts to one and playback to another.
Great.
What is the edge case scenario that necessitates this?
Do people want to listen to Kate Bush on their headphones but bombard anyone nearby with all the alert noises through their speakers?
It's also doing the same thing to the preferences in Logic.
If the headphones are plugged in during a reboot, they do not show up as a choice in audio prefs.
There is just System and Speakers.
So apologies to anyone at this cafe that got an earful of HardIndustrial1006.logicx at 8am.