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Just upgraded to Monterrey.
Every time a finder action completes my Mac plays a sound.
Like a beep when an airdropped file arrives or a bonk when a file finishes copying or moving.
This happens even when the system sound is switched off.
What is the setting where I can turn these sounds off?
The only way I can see of turning off the AirDrop sound is to go to System Preferences - Sound - Sound Effects and set the Alert volume to 0:
This is obviously a system-wide setting (it also mutes all the crashes and bangs in Finder), but it doesn't affect the sound output from music, videos etc.
Cheers,
H
The only way I can see of turning off the AirDrop sound is to go to System Preferences - Sound - Sound Effects and set the Alert volume to 0:
This is obviously a system-wide setting (it also mutes all the crashes and bangs in Finder), but it doesn't affect the sound output from music, videos etc.
Cheers,
H
I've solved it!
Seems to be the User Interface Sounds preference that controls things like the Airdrop completion sound.
System Preferences >> Notifications & Focus and there is a list on left of all Application that can play a sound. On Right and corresponding application chosen - uncheck " Play Sound "
Now it seems like that System Sounds setting did not work.
Any idea which app on the left side in the notifications settings pane controls this?
Finder is not listed as an app and neither is Airdrop.
I've got ALL notifications switched off and yet this Airdrop sound persists.
turn off finder sounds
