Safari User Guide
The best guide to easily create a keyboard shortcut which allows you to mute and unmute your microphone on Apple's macOS without having to be in the application. This is what used to be called a killer app, for people that use a Mac for work. The concepts all sound great but Apple have delivered a subsystem that treads a narrow line between being a productivity boon and a threat to making or managing calls through your Mac and iPhone. In the Safari app on your Mac, do any of the following. Mute audio in the tab you’re viewing: Click the Audio button in the Smart Search field. Mute audio in other tabs: If you’re viewing several websites that are playing audio, Option-click the Audio button in the Smart Search field to let audio play in the tab you’re currently viewing and mute the audio in other tabs. If this user checks Share Computer Sound on their computer, this will trigger the audio to channel through both their phone device as well their computer audio. To stop sending audio, simply click Stop Share at the top of your meeting screen or mute the speaker of your phone or the speaker of your PC or Mac.
If you’re a regular Mac user, you know that every time a Mac starts up or reboots, it is accompanied by the startup sound. Some might like this, but others might despise it. While you can mute the startup sound by holding down the “Mute” key just before you shut it down, one of the better ways is to permanently disable your Mac’s.
Safari lets you mute audio in any open tabs—helpful when you’re listening to audio from one website, and unwanted audio starts playing from another.
If you’re viewing a tab that’s not playing audio, the Audio button in the Smart Search field is white with a blue outline. If the tab is playing audio, the Audio button is solid blue.
Mute audio
In the Safari app on your Mac, do any of the following:
Mute audio in the tab you’re viewing: Click the Audio button in the Smart Search field.
Mute audio in other tabs: If you’re viewing several websites that are playing audio, Option-click the Audio button in the Smart Search field to let audio play in the tab you’re currently viewing and mute the audio in other tabs.
Mute all audio: If you’re viewing a website that’s not playing audio and other tabs are playing audio, click the Audio button in the Smart Search field to quickly mute all audio in other tabs.
Mute any tab: Click the Audio button on the right side of the tab in the tab bar.
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See websites that are playing audio
In the Safari app on your Mac, click and hold the Audio button in the Smart Search field to see a list of websites that are playing audio.
Choose a website to go to the tab where the audio is playing.
If you’re viewing a website that’s not playing audio, the list of open websites also includes the Mute All Tabs option. If it is playing audio, it includes the Mute This Tab or Mute Other Tabs option.
Unmute audio
In the Safari app on your Mac, click the muted Audio button in the Smart Search field, or on the right side of the tab in the tab bar.
Note: You can mute and unmute audio in tabs that are in the active Safari window as well as in tabs that are in other Safari windows behind the active window.
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Version 2.5.0
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- Devices menu now shows the Master Volume.
- Input devices now properly show and update the muted state.
- Toggle mute for default input device now shows the HUD to indicate status change.
- Add hotkeys for controlling the default input device’s gain and mute.
- Input devices now show gain dB value properly.
- Changing the gain of an input device no longer beeps.
- Added Priority devices for Input devices.
- Added HotKeys for changing the default input device.
- Volume feedback beeps now play on the appropriate device.
- Sound Control no longer interferes with macOS automatic device selection if priority devices are not enabled.
- Reduced CPU use.
- Added option to show and control apps that have been explicitly added to the listing.
- Fixed audio distortion after switching sample rates on bluetooth devices.
- Addressed application hang when switching to a bluetooth device or a built-in device on T2 Macs.
- Master volume displayed in the touch bar now updates properly when the default output device is changed.
- Added support for AirPlay!
- Added AppleScript support for setting mute, volume and balance.
- Added support for Zoom Thunderbolt audio devices.
- Sound Control volume change overlay more closely matches the system.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when muting AirPods Pro.
- Menu bar icon no longer shows disabled if STZ Audio Process plugin isn’t installed.
- Last version to support macOS 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.12 (Sierra), 10.13 (High Sierra. The next update to Sound Control will require macOS 10.14 (Mojave).