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Microsoft To Do: Problems with the Bell Sound
I love this app. It's easy to use and the sound it makes when I complete a task is amazing.
My sounds have recently stopped working however and I am very disappointed. No matter how many times I turn them on and off in the preferences there is no change in the app.
Does anyone have any recommendations? The number one reason I use this app is because of the sounds it makes. I use it with an iMac (my os is Catalina) in case this can help.
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- I've noticed that the bell sound rings sometimes when I'm not even on the app. I'm using the online version in Chrome on a Win10 PC. The first few times it happened I spent several minutes looking for a task that accidentally got completed...it's weird.
oliviabrown On my Macbook, I discovered that in addition to having "Play Completion Sound" checked in To Do Preferences, I also needed to check "Play user interface sound effects" in Mac OS's Sound->Sound Effects settings.
- cugms....TY...This solved my issue using Mac/Monterey 12.6
- I restarted the app a few times and it started working again.
Same issue here, Mac OS Monterey 12.4
Completion sound was working and then stopped working for no reason.
App setting and system notification settings do not change this behaviour. Odd
- Did you ever solve this? Mine stopped working too
oliviabrownthe completion sound can be enabled and disabled in the Settings. To access Settings (in the mobile and desktop versions), from the main (top-level) screen, select your name in the upper left corner and select Settings. Once in the Settings screen, you can enable or disable "Play completion sound". Hope this helps.
Talisphere Hello, is there an option to set an alert / alarm? For example I want one hour prior the meeting I set in ToDo, to hear an alarm, like the a.clock alarm in the morning :-).
Thanks in advance
Anton
Mr-Mahony, yes there is. Every item in the list is just a Microsoft Task, so you go into the list item detail and click on "Add due date" (to set a date) and then "Remind me" (to set an alert/alarm)
- Thank you SO MUCH!
>>> To clarify, "SETTINGS" in the To Do app itself is where these adjustments can be made. NOT from the main Windows 11 Settings options. - Meh - on or off - How about letting me PICK the sound? That tiny little bell is barely audible over the blaring Deutche Schlager I listen to constantly.
- Consider yourself lucky. I am trying to find a way to permanently mute this bell sound, which seems to be an impossible task.
- I registered just so that I could like this comment!
- I’d like to eliminate the sound too.
