I have a MacBook Air and for the last few days when I use the volume there is no sound coming out and a small 'cancel' symbol that appears. I have tried everything from shutting off my Mac and turning it on, to killing the coreaudio, imputing commands on terminal, and nothing works. My bluetooth works fine which is so weird. I am not sure what else I can do.
MacBook Air (2018 – 2020)
Start with this...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes or more.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
Start with this...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes or more.
Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.
You can Install an OS to an external drive, or move enough GBs of files off the internal to the external drive. What size is the Internal drive?
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)...
Reset the SMC of your Mac - Apple Support
I'm at a loss also Diana, maybe check Sound Pre Pane & Audio Midi Setup in Utilities.
Please follow BDAqua's advice to reset PRAM and SMC and let us know if it helped.
At the moment, your mac is not "seeing" the built-in audio devices at all.
What are the selected input and output devices?
You mention bluetooth, so perhaps some bluetooth speakers or headphones?
Does audio work with the built-in speakers and microphone?
Can you post screenshots of your System Settings->Sound?
It did not work but I appreciate your help and I have a question if you are able to help. I need to update my Mac and I think that might be my issue but I don't have enough space, if I were to get an external hard drive would I be able to update my Mac?
I appreciate the reply but it unfortunately didn’t work. I’m at a loss for what to do at this point
My audio only seems to work when its connected to any of my bluetooth devices but not with the built in speakers or microphone.
No Output/Input Sound
