Is an software or process causing problems on your Mac?
Rid yourself of the problem app by killing it using Activity Monitor or the Terminal.
it’s possible for you to also find and kill processes that are using specific ports on your Mac.
Activity Monitor has severalviews you might use to isolate problems.
Find out processes that are safe to kill on your Mac.
For example, typing
will return a list of processes with “Safari” in the title.
To kill a process immediately (also known as force quit) use
instead.
you’re free to also kill a process using its name with the
command, for example
.
This will kill all processes with “Safari” in the name (again, processes are case-sensitive).
Fortunately, this is easy to do using Terminal.
The command differs depending on which version of macOS you’re using.
If you find that you frequently need to do this, learnhow to troubleshoot crashing apps on your Mac.
