Messages notifications make my screen flash

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Messages notifications make my screen flash

I have a MacBook Air with OSX Yosemite installed. The title of my post is fairly descriptive of this issue. But let me include some things that I've tried to do to resolve the issue.

1. I looked over this article: OS X Yosemite: Audio pane of Accessibility preferences. I had a lot of hope this would resolve my issue, but upon going to the settings page for this I found the "Flash the screen when an alert sound occurs" checkbox to be un-checked. I checked, and un-checked it again to see if that would help, it did not.

2. Verified volume is turned up. Checking system preferences => Sound

a. I can see that the 'internal speakers' are selected as my output device, and the volume is mid-level.

3. Checked the notification settings for Messages for any setting that might indicate my desire to have the screen 'flash' when I get notifications. I don't see any setting there that appears to correspond with this anomaly.

4. Verified there are not any bluetooth audio devices connected to the Mac

I would really like to find out what is causing this. It is VERY annoying.

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Jan 20, 2015 9:12 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 20, 2015 1:52 PM in response to shames0

Hi,

In 1. does the Test Screen Flash look the same as what you see.

What happens if you Set this then Shut down and unset it after starting up again ?

If that does not appear to help change the settings in Notifications and Shut down and restart then reset here again.

Your 1. and 3. are the most likely places and changing the settings to see if they are accepted is probably the easiest thing to try.

9:52 pm Tuesday; January 20, 2015

 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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Answer 2

shames0 Author

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Jan 20, 2015 2:58 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Thanks for the response Ralph. It seems a simple reboot has resolved the issues. I thought I had rebooted more recently, but I hadn't.

After a reboot all is well without further action being required. (A bit ashamed I didn't try this sooner).

Thanks again.

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Answer 3

Jan 21, 2015 12:24 PM in response to shames0

for the Points

Yes Marking my Post as Helpful awards me 5 points.

Marking your Own makes it clear that was the Solution. However you don't get points yourself.

8:24 pm Wednesday; January 21, 2015

 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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Answer 4

shames0 Author

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Jan 20, 2015 3:01 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

PS: I hope you got points for me marking 'this helped me' I was trying to be clear as to what the solution was by marking my post as 'resolved the issue'. I'm new to this forum so I'll remember for future to mark the persons posts that helped me so they get the points rather than myself :-\ I don't see a way to revert my selection.

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