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Jun 29, 2019 Apps like media players need to be able to play audio as a core function whereas messengers, or any other app that has audio you cannot turn off may need a mute button. Unfortunately, out of the box, macOS doesn’t let you set app specific volume levels. Is it possible to mute just a single application (ex. Safari) on Mac while letting other application's sound continue to run through? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 176 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their.
This tip comes from a request by Alec, after a bit of fiddling and looking for workarounds I have found a solution on how to mute individual applications. This is quite useful if you have a noisy web browser or application that you want to mute, which doesn’t have its own volume control.
How To Mute Apps On Mac
The solution involves using a program called Audio Hijack. As the name suggests its designed to hijack audio from other applications. Although this is a paid app there trial version (which is free to use indefinitely) does exactly what we want.
The first step in hijacking an application and to mute it is to press the hijack button.
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This will take hold of the application within the program, you can still use the app normally. Unless you install the instant hijack button you do have to restart the soon to be muted program. The instant hijack button will, from the looks of it, cure this minor problem.
You can then press Mute, and the program will be muted. Very simple. If you want to add any more applications to be muted simply press the plus button at the bottom of the sidebar in the Audio Hijacks window and you can add as many apps so you wish.
Its not a perfect solution, and it is a bit bulky, however it does work and if you find some apps really annoying and you can’t mute them, this may be one solution.
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Safari User Guide
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.
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.