How to Make Your Mac Chime Like an iPhone
This Terminal tip will make your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro chime just like an iPhone whenever you connect your Mac to power. (Though it won’t chime if your Mac is fully powered up when you do connect it to power).
Here is how to make your Mac chime:
- Disconnect your Mac from power and launch Terminal
- Write this:
defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool true; open /System/Library/CoreServices/PowerChime.app &
- Hit Return:
- Now connect your Mac to power and listen out for the chime.
Stop it like this
To stop the feature type the following in Terminal and hit Return:
defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime
Please explore my other tips.
If I disconnect my Mac from power, I can’t use terminal. It is turned off!
I suppose that is true if you are using a desktop Mac, but I don’t see it as especially useful if you do — which is why the first paragraph refers to Apple notebooks.