Hi. Since upgrading to macos26 i have the problem that my audio service randomly dies. Mostly it happens when i connect or disconnect my headset, but yesterday it also happened after i ended a whatsapp call.
What happens is that suddenly no matter what device i connect where i have no audio at all. It's not a device switching problem but the audio is completely gone. The only way to fix it in my case is to force shutdown the computer, as i don't have a braille display regularely.
I am wondering if i can create a script to reboot the coreaudio service with a hotkey, did anyone try this before and what were the results?
And, do you also have this problem? I have a macbook air m3 from 2024. At first i thought my installed loopback was the problem, how ever when it truely was loopback, a force reboot wouldn't help. I had a problem before where the default output device would randomly change to a loopback device, and in that case i would really have to use a braille display, as force rebooting only fixed the problem for a few seconds until the loopback plugins where back started up.
By frapal, 1 October, 2025
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