Silent FaceTime ringtones on macOS

March 8th, 2019

Ringtones are bad, intrusive, and rude. The best $0.99 I’ve ever spent on iOS was buying a silent ringtone.

Here’s how to silence once and for all FaceTime calls on macOS while keeping the notification pop-up intact.

  1. Open a terminal and run:
    sudo vim ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.tonelibraryd/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ToneLibrary.plist
  2. Type the following and save and exit Vim:
    ringtone "system:"
  3. Log out & login again.