JBLControl 0.6.0: Keep Awake

New

• ☕ Keep Awake. JBL speakers turn themselves off after 10–20 minutes of silence, and JBL has no setting to stop it. Turn on Keep speaker awake (Settings → Speaker, or ••• → Keep Speaker Awake). While the speaker is your Mac's sound output, JBLControl plays a brief, inaudible tone every 5 minutes so it stays on.
  • Works with any JBL speaker, as long as your Mac is the audio source (not a phone).
  • While it's on, the menu bar speaker turns orange and the panel shows a ☕; click it to turn it off.
  • The speaker keeps using battery while it stays on.
• 🔋 macOS-style battery in the menu bar and panel: percentage inside the battery, green with a bolt while charging, red when low.

Keep Awake is new. If your speaker still turns off, please open an issue with your model.

Install

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later (Apple Silicon or Intel).

1. Download JBLControl-0.6.0.dmg below.
2. Open it and drag JBLControl onto Applications (choose Replace if you're updating).
3. First launch: if macOS blocks it, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway, or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/JBLControl.app.
   Why this happens and why it's safe →

Checksums (SHA-256)

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