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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - muted until I tap the volume slider?

I've been encountering a behavior on my 2020 MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. What I'm finding is that if I launch a page that has video, the video is muted. Sometimes the site does this and requires tapping on on-screen volume control. But in cases where the site doesn't automatically mute the audio, I find I have to tap the volume soft button on the Touch Bar and then tap the slider -- anywhere really -- to get audio. I've verified (several times) that the MacBook isn't muted in the first place -- I'll be listening to music, stop the music an open a web page with video, and find myself muted again.


I suspected at first this might be a side effect of installing Blackhole to capture audio from a web video - but even after completely uninstalling Blackhole the issue persists.


This appears to be entirely repeatable.

MacBook Pro 13”, 10.15

Posted on Jun 22, 2020 9:34 AM

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Posted on Jun 22, 2020 9:43 AM

Hi,

Resetting NVRAM could solve sound related issues.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063


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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - muted until I tap the volume slider?

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