You can change more, but I find these to be the ones that pop up often for me. Critical battery alarm (laptop users only).The main sounds I change on my computer are as follows: When you want to change a sound, you need to find that ‘Event’ in the list and then select a new sound for it from the drop-down menu below. This is where things get a little confusing. The quickest way to do this is to click on the search button on the Taskbar and looks for ‘change system sounds.’ Once it appears, click on the option and a little window will appear that looks like the picture above. The first thing you need to do is open the sound preferences. Windows 10Īs I stated above, things are a tiny bit trickier with Windows, but you do get some more customization options, so that’s a plus. Everything else that doesn’t will use the base tone you set earlier.

Sadly that’s the state of notification sounds on Mac, but generally, if you go into an app’s settings, it will have some sort of notifications section to give you some options. Slack, on the other hand, has a few custom sounds of its own. For instance, the email app Spark has its own notification sound, but you can disable it if you’d rather the default. The second step is figuring out what apps and services that sound applies too.

Mac notification sounds