Mac making strange alert/notification sounds with all notifications turned off

DanArthur28 wrote:

My Mac Mini M1 makes a strange custom alert sound randomly

for it that pops up.

? what custom sound...

pops-up...?

Not much to go on here.

To trouble shoot further you can:

—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.

—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 

unplug all third party peripherals when testing

Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus

all known to cause issues on the macOS

Hi DanArthur28,

Thanks for posting in Apple Support Communities.

To address the random alert sound, restart your Mac, if you haven't already and make sure all applications are closed. When you are back on the desktop, open one app at a time to see whether the alert begins again.

Regards.