How to Stop Your Mac Announce the Time

🗓️ July 10, 2025, By ✍️ Karly Wood

Would you like to mute the clock voice on your Apple Mac? Like Mac announces the time every hour, half hour, and quarter hour. An alarm clock announcement is Apple’s own time management feature available on iMac, MacBook, and MacBook Air. So you can customize it your own way, like a mute clock voice on Mac. Alternatively, you have three different options for announcing time from the clock as a bell or voice speech on the hours, on the half hours, or on the quarter-hour interval.

In more also, customize voice speech based on international languages (Chinese, Arabic, Dennis, Dutch, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish). Most folks remove clock voice speech because of inappropriate language or a heavy tune.

Note: This guide covers the latest macOS Tahoe, MacOS Sequoia, macOS Ventura, macOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, EI Capitan, and earlier.

Steps to Turn Off Mac Announce time Every Hour on Mac

How to Stop Your Mac Announce the time on MacBook any MacOS

The new macOS Ventura update has an easy option under the system settings. Let’s enable and disable the time announcement on Macs and MacBooks every hour.

1→ Go to the Apple Logo from the top Mac menu > System Settings.

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2→ Pick the right steps based on whatever macOS version you got on your Mac.

On macOS Tahoe: Select Menu Bar > Choose Clock Options.

Clock Options in macOS Tahoe

On macOS Sequoia: Next, click on “Control Center” > Choose “Clock Options.” appear under the menu bar only. [Please ignore the below picture because it was taken from macOS Ventura beta].

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clock-options-on-mac

3→ Select the interval for announce time. Also, we can change the speaking voice using Customise Voice… Option.

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Select,

  • On the hour
  • On the half hour
  • On the quarter hour
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select-time-interval-on-mac

4→ That’s it. In addition, To customize Your Mac Announce the Time with speed, System Voice and Use custom rate, Use custom volume…Click on “Customize Voice…

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customize-voicefor-time-interval-on-mac

5→ To change Mac announce the time with a different voice, select it from the options voice.

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change-voice-for-time-interval-on-mac

6→ Click on Okay > Done to apply the changes.

How to Turn off Time Announcement on macOS Monterey/Big Sur

macOS Montereyannounced time settings changed after the update with macOS Big sure. Follow the steps below to turn on andnd off or change the interval.

1→ Click on Apple Logo from Top mac menu > System Preferences.

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2→ Open Dock & Menu Bar.

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3→ Under the Section Menu Bar Only, select Clock and Menu Bar > and see all the custom settings for Show Clock on Menu Bar. and the last section is for customizing the announcement time. The time is displayed every hour, every half hour, and every quarter hour. Uncheck to completely turn off and check to turn on.

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Also, Mac users can customize Voice to speak Mac system time. That’s it.

How to turn off time announcements on macOS Catalina and Earlier

Follow the below steps for changetime announcement settings from Every hour to Half hour orQuarter-hour.

  • Step 1: Go to the Apple Menu from the top right corner.
  • Step 2: Next, click on System Preference.
  • Step 3: Then, Date & Time for all activities related to system time. clock settings on Mac OS X EI Capitan, Yosemite
  • Step 4: Next, From the top three-tab go with the Clock tab option.verify with login for make changesStep 5: Selected checkmark signal on Time announcement is notify that the time turned on. Uncheck for disabling/ Turn off voiceTurn off time annoucement for Mute clock voice on Mac

Note: To make changes in setting you must need an administrative Username or password.

In more settings, the related clock can be changed from here, clock vision like Digital or Analog. AM/PM format, With date.

Now you are done. Get Here Best Clock Apps.

Way to Change the clock time Zone on Mac OS X

are you moving from your country to outside? Unfortunately, the time zone doesn’t make the change automatically through the geo wifi location. So you can set it here manually. Under the Time Zone section. Uncheck Set time zone automatically using the current location.

Now move your cursor aero on the map to choose country, then closest city from the dropdown.

needs more help on customizing/Turning off or Mute clock voice on macOS with MacBook, then comment on below comment box.

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Karly Wood
Karly Wood

Karly Wood is a journalist based in Ohio who specializes in covering Apple and technology trends. With a varied experience in reporting on public safety, government, and education, her insights bridge multiple disciplines, providing readers with a well-rounded perspective on today's technological advancements. If you need to contact me, you can reach me at karlywood.ohio@gmail.com or through (Facebook)

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