How To Enable The Charging Chime On A Mac Laptop With A Magsafe Charger Repair Guide

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How to Enable the Charging Chime on a Mac Laptop with a MagSafe Charger
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Introduction

PS: The charging chime on the newer Mac Laptops is the exact same chime used on iPhones and iPads to verify charging on those devices too.

Step 1

              How to Enable the Charging Chime on a Mac Laptop with a MagSafe Charger

Disconnect your MagSafe/MagSafe 2 power adapter.
Go to the spotlight search and search for Terminal. Open Terminal by double clicking it in the results area.
Paste the following command into the Terminal window and press enter
defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnAllHardware -bool true; open /System/Library/CoreServices/PowerChime.app &
Terminal may automatically press enter for you. This may vary depending upon circumstances.
Done! Reconnect your MagSafe/MagSafe 2 power adapter and you should hear the charging chime
Your volume must be raised in order to hear the chime.

Disconnect your MagSafe/MagSafe 2 power adapter.

Go to the spotlight search and search for Terminal. Open Terminal by double clicking it in the results area.

Paste the following command into the Terminal window and press enter

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

Terminal may automatically press enter for you. This may vary depending upon circumstances.

Done! Reconnect your MagSafe/MagSafe 2 power adapter and you should hear the charging chime

Your volume must be raised in order to hear the chime.

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To disable the charging chime, simply change -bool true; in the command above to -bool false;

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Ryan Koenigsman - Apr 17, 2019

This is cool, thank you!

Mars is flat too… - Nov 9, 2019

how to DISABLE THIS SOUND ? :)

EB R - Apr 12, 2020

Hey there! You are able to turn off the chime by simply changing the command:

Turn on:

Turn off:

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

Difference is that the ‘on’ command states true and the off command states ‘false’

Try to attempt this, it may not work depending on your mac

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