How to Force Close Apps on MacOS

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• Guide: How to Force Close Apps on MacOS
• Force quit hotkeys
• Force quit via Terminal
• How to Force Close Apps on MacOS: benefits
• Faq
• Final note

Guide: How to Force Close Apps on MacOS

Mac OS X is a great operating system. It’s stable, but it’s not perfect. Occasionally the application you are working on may hang (or hang). If your application is not responding or you encounter the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, chances are your application has crashed.

If you don’t want to wait, there are two ways you can force quit an application that is not responding.

Force quit hotkeys

If your request does not respond, do the following:

1. Hold down the following keys: Command + Option + Esc
2. Choose the application you want to quit in the “Force Quick Application” dialog box.
3. Click “Force quit

Force quit via Terminal

Alternatively, you can quit an application with the shell command via Terminal.

1. Launch Spotlight Search with Command + Spacebar and search for Terminal. Hit Enter.
2. Type ps -ax in Terminal and then Enter. This will give you a list of all running processes on your Mac along with other details such as the respective PID number, elapsed run time, process name and process location.
3. To kill (force quit) a specific application, search for its name and write down its PID number.
4. Type the following command in Terminal: kill

Here’s an example:

If you type ps -ax, you may get a long list of running processes output that looks something like the screenshot below:

Now let’s say we want to force quit Google Chrome, we can use the grep command in conjunction with our ps -ax to get exactly the information about the process we want.

The full command would look like this:

ps -ax | grep

and in our case it will be something like this:

ps -ax | grep Chrome

and it should run the following in Terminal:

Note that the PID number for Google Chrome is 9635.

Go ahead and type the following command in Terminal:

murdered 9635

This will immediately terminate the Google Chrome browser. Hope this tutorial helps!

How to Force Close Apps on MacOS: benefits

Faq

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