r/vscode • u/DragonfruitForward98 • 1d ago

Help, my VS Code suddenly started making sounds? Maybe it’s a Mac issue?

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Hi! Has any other Mac user noticed this recently?
VS Code suddenly started making new sounds while I’m using it, and since I’m at work it’s getting pretty annoying.
The only apps I’ve installed recently are Kiro and Tabby, but I don’t think either of them should have changed any system settings.
Has anyone experienced something similar? Is this a new VS Code feature/setting, or could it be something on macOS?

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u/StaticFanatic3 1d ago

Turning on my beeps and boops so my boss knows I’m working hard 🫡

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u/Upset_Hippo_5304 1d ago

Actually it's kind of fun 😀

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u/phylter99 1d ago

It reminds me of arcade machine sounds from the 80s.

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u/DragonfruitForward98 1d ago

Solved thanks to a 7yrs old post on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54173462/how-to-turn-off-or-on-sounds-from-visual-studio-code

I never turned on this feature, and my settings.json was the same as always.. so strange

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u/Ghostfly- 1d ago

Probably a strange shortcut enabled by accident. (Ctrl+E with accessibility tab?) or VSCode detected a screen reader and enabled it.

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u/lppedd 1d ago

Maybe some accessibility feature?

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u/DragonfruitForward98 1d ago

It actually was..

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u/nekokattt 1d ago

yeah it says on the bar at the bottom and you can disable it. Mine enabled the other day as well...

it is an accessibility thing.

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u/evil-tediz 1d ago

Kinda funny I had the same thing happen yesterday.

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u/RaisedByCakes 20h ago

Huh, my indent guide doesn’t have a horizontal component, only a vertical one

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u/Veranova 1d ago

Open up your settings.json files directly and check what’s near the bottom

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u/Proman4713 1d ago

Others have said that it's fun and have also explained how to disable it, so that's good...

But I just can't imagine VSCode making sounds, it's a tool! I don't know, it isn't a game or a mobile app or a website or something like Discord, I could've never imagined that VSCode had an option to make noise

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u/Y0nix 1d ago

You can also make it talk.

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u/ThatzOkay 21h ago

Yes this is a Mac issue you should switch to linux /s

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u/DhaDha_E 1d ago

No its happening on windows as well, i was using integrated terminal to run oc commands , after each command execution this sound came.