16.04 with Unity - Icon with sound indicator icon is gone. How to activate it?

Question

Since a few days the sound indicator icon is gone. I still have the network indicator icon, the time/calender and the user icon. But the main one with the volume controls is gone.

How to activate it?

indicator-sound is already the newest version (12.10.2+16.04.20160406-0ubuntu1).

restart unity-panel-service does not help

Make sure that the indicator-sound package is installed & up to date. — Jonas Czech, Jul 05 '16 at 16:10
It is. But how to start it? There is no indicator-sound command. — Witek, Jul 05 '16 at 16:21
@Witek, You don't need to start it, just install it. But if it's already installed, I don't know what the problem could be. — Jonas Czech, Jul 05 '16 at 16:24
Possible duplicate of Missing sound volume icon on screen top (14.04) — mchid, May 16 '18 at 01:38
You can find the answer on this link https://askubuntu.com/questions/483397/missing-sound-volume-icon-on-screen-top-14-04/618154#618154 — badarshahzad, Mar 26 '19 at 18:56

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '16 at 16:48

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There is a checkbox in the sound settings:

Show sound volume in the menu bar

This activates the sound indicator.

answered Jul 05 '16 at 16:48

Witek

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Not sure why this becomes "unchecked" for me, but it's happened a couple times. Screenshot here from 14.04, but it's basically same in 16.04 https://askubuntu.com/a/618154/17060 – michael Jan 15 '18 at 11:15

16.04 with Unity - Icon with sound indicator icon is gone. How to activate it?

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