How To Get Back the Startup Chime

[honestone33]

Hopefully this is the correct area to place this. Also, please excuse me if it has been posted before.

I was somewhat surprised that after my very recent purchase of my late 2018 Mac Mini, the startup chime was no longer present. Did not know why, but then I did read something about that "feature". Has not bothered me much, but I did miss it.

Well, I saw this earlier today on the excellent site tidbits.com:

TipBITS: Enable the Startup Chime on New Macs - TidBITS

Have you been missing the startup chime on a new Mac? It’s once again possible to enable it with a simple Terminal command.

tidbits.com

As one can see, it takes a one line Terminal command. Just a few minutes ago I tried it, and it works!

So, if you are missing that startup chime, mystery solved!

The only thing is that for any subsequent Catalina updates (I am using the latest version of Catalina, OS 10.15.3), one will need to run it again. I have saved that command to a LibreOffice Writer Document, so that I have it.

 

[AustinIllini]

I turned it back on but I'm not sure I feel like it was worth it

 

[honestone33]

Yeah, not really a big deal. And I was somewhat getting used to it.

 

[Gregg2]

I've been turning mine off, using Onyx, but it keeps coming back!

 

[honestone33]

Hmm, did not know one could use Onyx to do that (I use Onyx religiously once a week on both of my Macs).

That link I provided shows also, via a Terminal command, how to turn it off.