If you connect a Mac to an external monitor using HDMI or DisplayPort, you’ll often lose the volume controls on your keyboard. Depending on how you use your Mac, this can be kind of annoying.

With tvOS 17.1, Apple rolled out a feature called Volume OSD that allows you to turn on a visual indicator for volume control. Here's how to activate it.

While there are multiple ways to adjust the volume of your Mac across the board, you can also control the volume for individual outputs, as well as the input sensitivity of your microphone.

Some users report that the keyboard audio volume controls fail to work properly under Mac OS X 10.4.4 One reader writes ...

SoundSource 4 is a menu bar utility for changing the volume, output, and audio device settings for individual apps, with support for adding built-in or third-party audio effects in real time.