macOS is one of the most used operating systems in the world. It doesn't take more than a couple of hours to understand how all its menus and tools work, as well as to customize all the options to the taste of each user. In fact, the functions are updated every year with complete software renovations. However, even after dozens of updates the mechanism for closing programs or applications on Macs remains the same. Below we will tell you how to close programs in different ways, as well as the importance of keeping a computer as optimized as possible to increase its performance.
The importance of maintaining the speed of our Mac
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Closing programs on your Mac couldn't be easier
One of the differential aspects between Windows and Mac is that the red cross located in the upper left of all context menus it does not induce the definitive closure of a program or application. In other words, almost every time we press the red button, what we will do is close tabs or context menus, but we will not remove the application from our dock as an active application.
For this, it is necessary close programs manually Following followed very simple. These are all the ways we have to close a program or application:
- The easiest way is to press Command + Q in the application that we want to close. In this case we will definitely close the program.
- If you are using the mouse, we can also close the program by clicking on the name of the program at the top left of the navigation menu and clicking on Logout. Pressing Command+Q is the same as pressing exit.
- We can also close a program directly from the dock. Pressing right click on the icon of the program that we want to close We can close it by clicking on “Exit”.
The three ways to close applications are that simple. I personally think that the Command + Q It is the easiest shortcut to clear our entire desktop of programs and tabs. However, if you have many programs open, I think the best thing to do is to close them one by one by right-clicking on the icons of each one from the dock. It is one of the options that will make us go faster with our Mac.
If you can't close it, try to force quit
However, there will be times where closing the program naturally may not work. This is because the use of the application has been corrupted and cannot be closed naturally. For this we have to choose the "brute force" mode offered by macOS as usual. It is a way that in Spanish is called force exit.
For that:
- Do any of the following:
- Tap the apple located at the top left of the screen and tap Force exit
- Or press the keys Option + Command + Escape at once.
- At this point, the Force Quit window will open.
- In that window we will see which programs are the ones that we have open at that very moment. The logical thing is that we want to close a program that does not respond and that the natural closure has not worked for us. Between parentheses it usually puts which applications are the ones that do not respond.
- Select a program and click on force exit.
- The program should close and you should be able to reopen it normally.
If you don't want to open the menu and you know for sure which program is not responding, you can also force it to quit. pressing with the right click the icon of the app that does not respond from the dock. And you can click on "Force Quit" because macOS will have detected that its normal shutdown could not occur.
I can't force quit any app
In case you cannot force quit any program or application We recommend that you restart your Mac. For that:
- Press the apple button in the upper left and press Restart.
If you still can't access this menu because your Mac is locked:
- Press the power button on your Mac for up to ten seconds until it turns off.
- Turn your Mac back on when you detect that it has already shut down.