As reliable as a Mac can be, there will likely be a moment when an app stops responding due to a bug, crash, or some other hard-to-predict glitch. Thankfully, you won’t necessarily have to restart your Mac to solve the problem. We’ll show you how to force quit an app on a Mac so that you can reload it — or at least, finish everything else you were doing.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click General. Open General preferences for me. Select “Close windows when quitting an app.”. Quit all apps when you restart, shut down, or log out. On your Mac, choose Apple menu, then choose Restart, Shut Down, or Log Out. Click the Apple menu in the upper left corner and choose Force Quit. If you prefer a keyboard shortcut, you can alternately press Option, Command, and Escape at the same time. The Force Quit Applications window should appear. Click the app you want to shut down and click the Force Quit button. 4 ways to Force Quit an app on your Mac Dock. For an app whose icon you have parked in the Dock, you can right-click on the icon and hit the Option key. You can access Force Quit from the Apple menu. Click the Apple icon in the upper-left corner and choose. Keyboard shortcut.
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How to force quit an app on a Mac
If an app freezes but macOS is otherwise working properly, you just need to visit the Apple menu or use a keyboard shortcut to bring up the Force Quit window and shut down the offending app. We’ll show you how to use both methods. If none of your apps are responding or a force quit doesn’t work, you may need to restart your computer.
- Click the Apple menu in the upper left corner and choose Force Quit.
- If you prefer a keyboard shortcut, you can alternately press Option, Command, and Escape at the same time.
- The Force Quit Applications window should appear.
- Click the app you want to shut down and click the Force Quit button. Click the next Force Quit button when asked to confirm the move, or Cancel if you want to stop.
- If you select Finder (the macOS interface), the Force Quit button will be replaced with Relaunch. Finder will restart instead.