1 day ago To safely shut down your Mac, press Control + Option + Cmd + Power. Don’t hold down the power button or you’ll force shut down your Mac; give it a brief press with the other buttons instead. That shortcut might not work if your Mac can’t safely close every app, in which case you need to force your Mac to shut down instead. Nov 11, 2016 Hard restart your Mac. If nothing above worked, then there isn’t much you can do apart from pulling the plug and rebooting. However, you can’t just shut down your Mac like you normally would, because macOS is going to wait for the app to respond before it turns off your computer. Instead, you will need to forcefully shut down your Mac.

Dec 01, 2017 As already mentioned, the Mac OS has to close all apps before it can shut down and if you keep apps open and decide to Shut Down the whole process will obviously take much longer. In case an app has an unsaved document or if it is crashed or frozen, the time taken to Shut Down.

My last article is near to manage running frozen windows using Force Quit App on Mac running with MacOS Big Sur [macOS 11], Catalina,macOS Mojave,macOS Sierra, EI Capitan or Yosemite. First, we have to check why an app is a freeze? How many applications and processes running on our Mac in the background or on-screen? That you can see by View running all Apps on Mac. Also, learn alternate ways to fix your problem on close frozen windows from MacOS.

A single app that can affect your Mac’s performance and other running Mac Programmes. So you will feel your Mac slow performance overall. Don’t be panic/ hesitate, First, follow my simple guide given below. The primary reason is the incompatible App version or lower MacOS Version. Check that in the App Store App > Update tab.

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Tricks to Force Quit App on Mac which is frozen, Hanged and Crashed Apps on Mac

First, I covered the simple method to Force Quit App on Mac then hard.

Method 1: Force Quit App Using Dock

Method 2: Get all running Apps to Force Quit App on Mac

Go to the Apple icon in the top right corner of the screen.

Next, Force Quit. Get Force Quit Applications windows on screen then
Select App > Force Quit
(Force Quit App on Macos Mojave Shortcut keys: Command + ALT + ESCAPE) && Command + ALT + SHIFT + ESCAPE

Method 3: Force Quit App on Mac via Activity Monitor tool

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Just like windows users (Command + Alt + Delete for Task manager), OS X Users also use Activity monitor and close running but the frozen app on-screen forcefully.

Open Finder on Mac.
Find Applications folder from side panel > Utilities Folder.

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Under the Utilities > Activity Monitor

Click on CPU tab to see all running applications with detailed technical information.

Find the app from name > Select it > Click on the cross close button at the top right side in the same windows > Click on Force Quit.

Also, Check App Process and Threads inside the process tab,

That’s it. You’re done!

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