Forced shutdown of an Application on a Mac.

[transmaster]

I just had a application that totally locked up. It didn't lock of the Mac up but I could not shut it down. In order to close it I had to reboot the Mac Studio. On my Windows machine I would have hit the Control-Alt-Delete command and pulled up the task manager and forced the application to close. Does macOS have something like that? As you know the on off button on the Mac Studio is a complete, and total PIA. Sort of on the back flush mounted so maybe a blind person used to reading braille might be able to feel for it but I have to turn the thing around to see it.

 

[Shadow2k]

As long as the mac is responsive you can try to kill the misbehaving task using "activity monitor". The easiest way to launch it is pressing "Command+Space" followed by entering "activity monitor". There is a stop task button in the upper row of the app.

 

[CTHarrryH]

You could also force quit the application - on the apple menu on top left
Probably should be on Mac forum not IOS

 

[transmaster]

You could also force quit the application - on the apple menu on top left
Probably should be on Mac forum not IOS

Yes you are correct, it has been an interesting day,

Oh Great and Powerful Moderator could you move this thread to the correct place. 🙏

 

[transmaster]

As long as the mac is responsive you can try to kill the misbehaving task using "activity monitor". The easiest way to launch it is pressing "Command+Space" followed by entering "activity monitor". There is a stop task button in the upper row of the app.

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[transmaster]

Yes you are correct, it has been an interesting day,

Oh Great and Powerful Moderator could you move this thread to the correct place. 🙏

Thank You, I have to many Apple OS now it is getting interesting to keep track.

 

[highmayhem]

I would say the quickest and easiest method (and closest Windows equivalent) to force quit an application is Command+Option+Escape.

 

[transmaster]

I would say the quickest and easiest method (and closest Windows equivalent) to force quit an application is Command+Option+Escape.

Thank you that is indeed close to the Windows command. Macrumors comes through again.

 

[DaveEcc]

You can also right-click on the app in the dock. In older MacOS there was a Force Quit option in a submenu. It seems in Sonoma you now have to press option to change the Quit option into Force Quit.

 

[chown33]

Oh Great and Powerful Moderator could you move this thread to the correct place. 🙏

The best way to summon moderators is to use the Report button and ask for your thread to be moved.

You can also ask for things like deleting a post or thread, or having Christmas gifts spew out of a USB port.

Sorry, only kidding about that last one.

 

[bogdanw]

Relevant Apple documentation:
Quit apps on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchl834d18c2/mac
If an app freezes or quits unexpectedly on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2579/
Quit an app or process in Activity Monitor on Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/activity-monitor/actmntr1002/mac

 

[Big Bad D]

I just had a application that totally locked up. It didn't lock of the Mac up but I could not shut it down. In order to close it I had to reboot the Mac Studio. On my Windows machine I would have hit the Control-Alt-Delete command and pulled up the task manager and forced the application to close. Does macOS have something like that? As you know the on off button on the Mac Studio is a complete, and total PIA. Sort of on the back flush mounted so maybe a blind person used to reading braille might be able to feel for it but I have to turn the thing around to see it.

command + option + esc ?

 

[transmaster]

I remember years ago of a panel discussion Bill Gates and computer engineer that developed the Control-Alt-Delete command for Window. There was condis

You can also right-click on the app in the dock. In older MacOS there was a Force Quit option in a submenu. It seems in Sonoma you now have to press option to change the Quit option into Force Quit.

That did not work. The app was totally frozen.

 

[bogdanw]

Mac keyboard shortcuts https://support.apple.com/HT201236
"Option-Command-Esc: Force quit an app.
Control–Command–Media Eject : Quit all apps, then restart your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them.
Control–Option–Command–Power button* or Control–Option–Command–Media Eject : Quit all apps, then shut down your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them."

 

[curnalpanic]

I recently had an app freeze so bad that I had to kill WindowServer to get rid of it.