Crackling sound after updating to macOS Tahoe 26

nilegor wrote:

Hey!

I have 2 MacBooK Pros 16" (M1-Pro and M4-Max)

After updating both to macOS Tahoe 26 my speakers are making bad noises on calls, when receiving a notification, when playing videos, basically on any sound effect.

They occur more often in the older M1-Pro Mac.

It's very bad and I could not find a way to fix it.

for audio glitches you can try from Terminal.app: copy and paste:

sudo killall coreaudiod

(sudo note: your psswd will not echo on screen type it in anyway, then to proceed use the enter\return key.)

reboot and compare your results

nilegor wrote:

Whoa!

Apparently it solves the problem for now.

I’ll report back next week.

but for now see to be working fine again.

Thanks / Obrigado!

Good computing nilegor !

I will say the current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.0.1

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