A Sound Plays When You Plug In the Charger

On a MacBook, a connection chime can play when you connect the charger, even if the speaker is muted. You can verify this by playing connect_power.aif under /System/Library/CoreServices/PowerChime.app/Contents/Resources.

The setting to stop this sound on charger connect is simple. Run defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime in Terminal.

$ defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool false;killall PowerChime

To enable the chime again, run the following command in Terminal.

$ defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool true; open /System/Library/CoreServices/PowerChime.app &


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