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. My last article is near to manage running frozen windows using Force Quit App on Mac running with MacOS Big Sur, Catalina, macOS Mojave, macOS Sierra, EI Capitan or Yosemite. Step 2 Find the app that won't quit in the process list and select it. Step 1 Open Activity Monitor in Application Utilities. If you cannot quit an app with force quit or Command-Option-Escape, you can turn to Activity Monitor, which allows you to force quit any frozen apps. Way 3: Uninstall Apps That Won't Force Quit Way 1: Kill Mac Process.
Just a word of warning - using force quit should be a last resort.
Among the advantages of this app is the alphabetic order of all running processes with detailed information about them (the process name, PID, used memory, the date and the time of launch, etc.), the ability to kill even the system processes.īesides that, Commander One is a powerful file manager that helps you to have well-organized documentation on your Mac with a huge variety of handy features (Terminal emulator, cloud storage integration, mounting and managing iOS, Android, and other devices supporting MPT protocol, root access, archiver, etc.).Press these three keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). The app allows viewing and managing all the running processes on your Mac computer and if it is required to kill the process simply by pressing the Del button. That is why if you want to monitor the running processes a little more closely and get real-time updates on your Mac's performance we can recommend you an excellent Mac Task Manager alternative – Commander One. Activity Monitor is not the exact copy of the Windows analog and it lacks some features.