To quit (close) a Mac app normally, choose Quit from the app's menu in the menu bar, or press Command (⌘)-Q. If the app doesn't quit, follow these steps to force the app to quit.
Control–Option–Command–Power button. or Control–Option–Command–Media Eject: Quit all apps, then shut down your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you will be asked whether you want to save them. Control-Command-Q: Immediately lock your screen. Apps to hide photos on mac. Shift-Command-Q: Log out of your macOS user account. You will be asked to confirm. Another factor that may be slowing down your system is the Mac’s “Resume” feature, which re-opens any and all apps you had running when you shut down your Mac. That could lead to a crush of apps all trying to launch themselves at startup. Last but not least, you may have specific programs on your Mac with “Launch at Startup” settings that you’ll need to find and disable.
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- What happens when you try to open the mail app? The icon just jumps like its opening but nothing comes up? To force quit, when you click on the mail app icon you will see your finder bar changes from finder to mail, click the apple icon and find force quit in the menu, select the mail app and tell it to force quit.
- If you are using mac os x lion or later, which you apparently do, you can just uncheck the 'reopen windows when logging back in' when the log-out or shut down menu comes up! This way your perviously opened app won't open again!
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How to force an app to quit
Mac os x lion install app. Press these three keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). Or choose Force Quit from the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen. (This is similar to pressing Control-Alt-Delete on a PC.)
Then select the app in the Force Quit window and click Force Quit.
You can even force the Finder to quit, if it stops responding: Select Finder in the Force Quit window, then click Relaunch.
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