How to quickly switch between audio input and output options in OS X

MacBook Air 2016-thinner-0

If you have been using Apple computers and their OS X system for a while, you will know that Cupertino software engineers have always included shortcuts within the system that are gradually becoming known. However there are some who, Despite being very clear once you discover them, it takes time to find them.

That is the case of the shortcut that we are going to explain to you today and that is if you have different audio input devices connected to your Mac as well as different audio outputs either by software or hardware to be able to switch between them what you normally have to do is go to System Preferences> Sound and modify them.

But as has happened on many occasions, there are certain actions in OS X that can be done in several different ways, making the system much more productive in case you know them. That is why if you are in the situation that you have different audio inputs and outputs on your Mac, the steps that you will have to continue to be able to switch between them from the Finder menu bar are the following:

  • We enter Launchpad and open the System preferences.
  • Now we enter the item Sound which is where all the changes related to the sound of your Mac and its inputs and outputs are made.

Main-menu-sound

  • If you look at the bottom of the window you have a check box that gives you the possibility the system volume icon is displayed in the menu bar. We mark it so that the icon of a speaker appears in the Finder bar.

Sub-menu-sound

Now we close the System Preferences window and go to the Finder menu bar icon that we have activated. As you can see in the icon, when you click on it, you will be able to increase or decrease the volume, but at the same time you click on the icon you press the «alt» key the menu that is displayed changes and shows you the audio inputs and outputs of your Mac so that you can change them quickly and easily.


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