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How do I turn down the Mac startup sound

Well I have a 3 weeks old iMac 27" Retina. Awesome piece of art! That said, the start up sound is very loud and from what I've found out from searching the old inter-web one can not turn down the volume. Hard to believe I want to turn something down but....Well I need to keep the peace in the homestead.

I did see I could download some kind of third party stuff but I really want to avoid that.


Are there any of you guru's out there that can enlighten me?


Thanks,


tom

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 15, 2015 8:57 AM

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Feb 15, 2015 9:04 AM in response to Community User

The startup sound is a critical part of the OS X start up process. Turning it off is short sighted and pretty foolish. In the event you need to do a PRAM reset or other types of restarts and cannot hear the sound you don't know if the resets are working or not. The best thing to do is leave the machine running 24/7 and either put it to sleep or put the display to sleep. If you don't want to do that then simply turn down the volume prior to shut-down.

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Feb 15, 2015 11:02 AM in response to rkaufmann87

Thanks for the info. No, I did not say I want to turn it off. I want to turn it down. As for making the volume lower, the F11 & F12 keys only effect the external speakers. The slider in systems preferences > sounds for the internal speakers do not adjust machine sounds. I can leave in run 24/7 and usually do but there are times I can't.

ANyway thanks for for the reply.

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Feb 15, 2015 11:10 AM in response to Community User

When I turn down the volume via the Menu bar it controls the volume of the startup sound on my iMac:

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But then I don't have any external Speakers. Don't know if you can select internal speakers in the System/Sound preference pane, set the sound low and then change back to the externals but you might try:

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How do I turn down the Mac startup sound

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