We know how frustrating it can be for the computer, or a certain program, to crash just when we were working on something important, with hardly any time to save what we were doing at that moment.
Although, luckily, today many applications have the autosave functionality, or offer us the possibility of saving the information once we restart the program after a few minutes, it is evident that nobody takes the shock out of our body (or the time that we will consume when restarting the device).
Even though it is true that, in the case of macOS , this type of problem does not tend to be as common or common as with other operating systems (as could be the case with Windows), on some specific occasions it could occur. What to do in these cases? In case the system does not respond, an available solution is to restart the Mac . But it’s not the only option.
What to do when an application crashes on Mac?
In the event that a certain application or program has crashed, and lets us do absolutely nothing, a simple and quick solution without having to restart the Mac completely is to use the Force Quit option , which precisely the Apple developers intelligently designed for this kind of awkward situations.
To do this, we just have to right-click on the application icon in the application bar at the bottom of the screen, and click on the Force Quit button.
It is also possible to do this by pressing the keys Cmd + Option + Esc . If everything works fine, you won’t need to restart macOS.
Restarting your Mac easily and quickly
If, despite this, the application does not close or even macOS has been completely frozen, another of the available options is to restart the Mac , although this option should only be used as a last resort.
To do this, just press and hold the on / off button long enough to get your Mac to turn off and on again automatically. Generally, this does not cause problems, although it is not recommended to abuse this option.
However, when macOS continues to have an unknown error which is not resolved by the restart option, then it may be necessary to start safe mode , to run basic functions and help find potential problems.
To activate it, it is only necessary to turn off the Mac and, when starting it, hold down the Shift key. Just when the login window appears, we finally proceed to release this key.
As a last resort, you might need to access macOS Utilities and Restore from a Time Machine backup ; Or, alternatively, Reinstall macOS , which would help us to reinstall a fresh copy of the operating system.
