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

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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.