Cursor Mac app plays a noise constantly and cannot be turned off

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

On the Cursor application for Mac silicon, I have not been able to disable the sound that gets played every time Cursor sends a message. In settings, there’s a toggle for “Turn off completion sound”, which was already off, but I cannot find any setting that lets me turn off the nearly constant bloop bloop sound that happens every 5-90 seconds when a new message or response comes through. I have updated the software every time one is available (also do you really need to ship like 25 updates per week ) uninstalled reinstalled, running on an M1 Max mbp, no system settings or plugins to explain it either.

Steps to Reproduce

do anything, when it replies it will with each turn of thinking, make a sound that cant be muted.

Expected Behavior

it should not play sounds all the time like a torture device

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.11.6 (Universal)
VS Code Extension API: 1.125.0
Commit: 499321504bbc2649b3148883f7b30fff8426c870
Date: 2026-07-08T21:40:28.046Z
Layout: Agent Window
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.4.0

Additional Information

This means that when I’m using Cursor, I just have to mute this computer so I’m playing music from a different device. I can’t have Cursor running when I’m on a Zoom call or recording anything.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

5

Hey, thanks for the report. The cause isn’t obvious. That constant bloop isn’t Cursor’s Completion Sound. It’s off by default and only plays when the agent fully finishes. It’s actually accessibility signal sounds from the VS Code layer, so the Completion Sound and System Notifications toggles won’t mute it. This usually happens when editor.accessibilitySupport is set to auto and it detects an accessibility mode.

How to stop it, confirmed fixes:

  • Fastest: set the volume for all signals to 0. Open this link directly in Cursor, important you need editor mode cursor://settings/accessibility.signalOptions.volume and set it to 0.
  • More targeted: Cmd+Shift+P then run Help: List Signal Sounds and Help: List Signal Announcements, and disable the ones that are playing, especially anything related to Terminal or Progress.
  • If you’re not using a screen reader: set editor.accessibilitySupport to off. Most likely auto is what enabled these signals.

More details and the same case discussed here: 1.5: Please be quiet!

Let me know if it still keeps blooping after that.