Hi, You likely pressed the mute button, which is usually the F10 button if the up and down volume buttons are F11 and F12. Headphone volume is separate from internal speaker volume, so if you turn up or down the volume on one, it does not affect the volume of the other.
Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jul 1, 2021, at 3:24 PM, Pete De Vasto <pdevasto0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’ve got a Mac mini running Catalina, and my primary speakers are connected > to the headphone jack. The other day, I was pressing keys kind of fast, and > one of the keystrokes I did muted my headphones. I was still able to unplug > them and get output from VO so I could troubleshoot using the internal > speaker. The only way I was able to get sound back through the headphone jack > was to go to System Preferences > Sound > Output, and uncheck the mute box. > As an aside, VO didn’t tell me it was a checkbox, I just pressed space hoping > that would work, and thank goodness it did, so everything is back to normal! > > I’ve been looking through different lists of shortcuts, but I can’t find a > keystroke that would have initially done the muting. So now, does anyone know > what shortcut I might have done to cause the headphones to go silent? > > Pete De Vasto > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/A9EE7DCE-B811-476A-AF86-4A3AD614FC34%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/79EB6A1D-8DFF-448C-9EB4-A0DEB4168D50%40me.com.
