The Chime is back!

[k2k koos]

hooray the chime is back, and PC guy too! loved it. I'm really excited for the future of the Mac, and computing in general.

 

[AustinIllini]

The chime is back on Big Sur on intel macs and can be enabled with a quick sudo script

 

[predation]

I guess me still rocking a 2010, it’s been aways been there. Lol

 

[k2k koos]

ha ha yes, poor me I'm still working on a 2008 Mac Pro (2x Quadcore 2.8Ghz Xeon CPU's) , and a 2008 Macbook (unibody)... So the Chime is still with me yes, my iPad and iPhone(11) are better at some tasks, but I still like the larger screen, and all the storage my old Pro has. I could not afford currently to move up to a new Mac Mini and get an external drive bay that would fit 4 3.5" HDD's on a thunderbolt link (and having to invest in a new display too, using a 23" Apple Cinema display which also still works brilliantly), or transfer all data onto a single external thunderbolt SSD... options options...

 

[Saturn007]

Ah, but can you easily turn it off?

I've rebooted my laptop in the middle of the night and awakened others.

IIRC, it used to be that if you had the Sound set to off, the chime wouldn't play. That was fast, and convenient, and kept others happy!

 

[aednichols]

Ah, but can you easily turn it off?

I've rebooted my laptop in the middle of the night and awakened others.

IIRC, it used to be that if you had the Sound set to off, the chime wouldn't play. That was fast, and convenient, and kept others happy!

You can silence the chime by holding the mute key during boot.

Didn't matter what the system volume was set to when you turned it off.

Very handy in college libraries.

 

[theluggage]

The chime is back on Big Sur on intel macs and can be enabled with a quick sudo script

Actually, it has been possible to re-instate the chime since at least Mojave. Not sure the boing ever went away, it just got turned off...

 

[aednichols]

Actually, it has been possible to re-instate the chime since at least Mojave. Not sure the boing ever went away, it just got turned off...

No OS version has ever lacked the ability to chime.

Whether it plays is determined by the hardware model; if the Mac chimed when you first took it out of the box, it kept doing so through every OS upgrade. And the reverse.

 

[Ritsuka]

Chime can be disable/enabled in System Preferences -> Sound.
No need for arcade commands or mute buttons.

 

[AustinIllini]

Chime can be disable/enabled in System Preferences -> Sound.
No need for arcade commands or mute buttons.

That's new in Big Sur. It's just an exposed bit.