


If you bring up the Force Quit Applications menu while you’re on the frozen program, it’ll already have the app preselected, and you can simply click the Force Quit button to close it.

The second method is the faster way to do it, but method one is still a solid way to achieve our goal. If you force quit an actual app the button will say Force Quit. It’s helpful in case Finder freezes or otherwise acts up on you. This is a system app that doesn’t truly force quit, but doing this will force it to relaunch. In the image above I’m force quitting Finder. This brings up a window to force quit an app.On your keyboard, press Option + Command (⌘) + Escape.
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Or, you may have to repeat what you were doing after you restart the app. Be aware that if you force quit an app while it was in the middle of doing something, some data may be lost. Force quitting an app means it doesn’t go through the normal quit process. In order to normally quit an app you can hit the keys Command (⌘) + Q, or select Quit from the app menu in the menu bar. In those situations the mouse pointer turns into a rainbow and you can’t do much except wait for it to do something…unless you force quit. It’s possible to force quit a Mac app if it starts behaving badly or acting weirdly.
