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Graham Barlow

It’s 2025 and Apple has still not fixed this ancient Mac bug – but here’s a solution

Man using headphones in pain.

I’ve been having this recurring problem with my MacBook Pro for ages now. Every so often the sound in my headphones will inexplicably stop playing from the left speaker.

At first I thought it was a problem with my bluetooth headphones. One of the speakers can, after all, just break for no good reason, so I switched to a wired pair, but after a few days the same problem started happening again.

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