Re: Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-03 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Yes, it is exactly the case. Because you have your machine set the way you do, that will be announced. As I said, it is a security thing. When the Security Agent engages, that announcement is made. Because you do not have the password set, the screen is not locked and only requires the

Re: Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-02 Thread 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
Yeah but your screen goes to sleep still. Even though you have the hard drive set to not go to sleep, the screen still goes to sleep. You could make it so that it doesn't, but I would think that if you did that it would damage it overtime unless you set the brightness to 0. Regards, Shawn, Sent

Re: Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-02 Thread Dane Trethowan
What you’ve said isn’t the case because I have these functions disabled, in other words I have my Mac machines set so that I don’t need to enter a Password after a period of inactivity. > On 3 Nov 2019, at 1:32 am, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > It is a security thing

Re: Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-02 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, It is a security thing. If you had your iMac set to require a password after sleep or screen saver, or if your Mac was set to require a password after a certain time of inactivity, this would be announced but also require your password to unlock. This sort of setting is, for security reas

Re: Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-02 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! So you don’t even make the screen go to sleep. If you do this could actually cause the screensaver to kick in. I also have this issue but haven’t really cared about it. BUt now when you wrote about it i am also curious to see what could cause the problem. BUt i think the screensaver is the cu

Mac machines speaking after 10 minutes of activity

2019-11-01 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi, This is something I’ve been wondering about ever since I bought my 2 iMac machines back in 2017 and installed the latest OS back then and still happens with Catalina now. After about 10 minutes of activity OS announces “Loged In As Dane Trethowan” I think the announcement is. If I press a ke