Hi all,
Given how many wrote to Apple asking for its return, and I imagine those
contacts came from a variety of sources, its nice discovering that you
were heard.
Kare
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries wrote:
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
Apple Teacher
(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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