Hi Brad,

Thanks for this info.  The Startup Chime is classic in my opinion and pretty 
well necessary for us blind users.  I did do the Terminal thing in Catalina on 
my 2017 MBP and it worked like a charm.  Putting it into System Prefs is just 
what the Doctor ordered.

Later…


Tim Kilburn
Jamf Certified Tech
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(with Swift Playgrounds Recognition)
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jun 23, 2020, at 7:38 PM, Brad Snyder <wb...@swbell.net> wrote:

The Mac startup chime is making a return in macOS Big Sur
Mike Peterson <https://appleinsider.com/editor/Mike+Peterson>

Apple is officially bringing back the Mac startup chime with macOS Big Sur, 
four years after removing it in a previous version of the operating system.

The classic Mac sound was removed from Apple's lineup of computers with the 
introduction of the 2016 MacBook Pros with Touch Bar 
<https://appleinsider.com/inside/2016-macbook-pros-with-touch-bar>. Ever since 
then, macOS <https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos> has been silent on startup. 

That changes in the first macOS Big Sur 
<https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos-big-sur>beta. AppleInsider confirmed the 
chime's reintroduction on a 2018 Mac mini 
<https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac-mini> and a 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro 
<https://appleinsider.com/inside/macbook-pro>.

Based on social media posts from developers running the first beta, it looks 
like the startup chime is widely available on other models, too. It appears 
that users can toggle the sound on and off, since there's now a new "Play sound 
on startup" option in System Preferences.

Apple first teased the chime's return during its WWDC 2020 keynote. While it 
didn't actually confirm the fact, Apple's macOS Big Sur features page does 
state that "system sounds are all-new and even more pleasing to the ear," and 
were created using snippets of the originals.

During Monday's WWDC keynote, Apple VP of Human Interface Design Alan Dye said 
that the new sounds are "familiar to the Mac, but remastered and more refined."

Although a software update in 2016 removed the startup chime, a later update to 
macOS Catalina actually added them under-the-hood — though it required a 
Terminal command 
<https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/22/how-to-turn-your-mac-startup-chime-back-on>
 to actually enable them.

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purchased through affiliate links. These partnerships do not influence our 
editorial content.

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