Re: Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
I always forget the notifications on the Mac! I remember them on the I phone though. I’ll have a look. Thank you. > On 25 May 2021, at 22:06, Brad Snyder wrote: > > There should have been a Notification banner in the upper right corner of the > Mac’s screen. You can access these

Re: Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread Brad Snyder
There should have been a Notification banner in the upper right corner of the Mac’s screen. You can access these Notification banners using VO + N, then using the up/down arrow keys, then pressing Enter to select and place focus on the Notification. You will then need to open the Actions

Re: Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Hi. My Mac kept saying bluetooth keyboard disconnected. It had been doing this a lot when I put my Surface Tablet pro on. So today I restarted the Mac and it stopped it. There were no dialogue boxes showing. It would do this intermittently. After restarting it, it didn’t do this at all.

Re: Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, As John aptly said, it is a System dialog alert that is trying to tell you to pay attention to it. It will continue to do this until you attend to it. Use VO-f1-f1, the Application Chooser, to find this alert. The Window Chooser, V(-f2-f2, does not usually reveal System alerts. Later…

Re: Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread John Panarese
You might have a system dialog that is bugging you. Try using the window chooser and app chooser menus to find the dialog and deal with it. It’s probably asking you permission to do something or warning you about an incompatible app. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind

Why does my iMac make a pinging sound every 30 seconds?

2021-05-25 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, I am running Bigsur 11.4 on my 2019 iMac. The iMac makes a pinging sound about every 30 seconds or so and has done this at least for the entire Bigsur release. This is beginning to annoy me and I would like to stop it. Has anyone any idea why the iMac does this and what I can do to stop