Force quit a frozen app
Press ⌥⌘Esc, pick the app, and click Force Quit. If even that window will not open, Terminal can end it by name with killall.
Without Terminal
- Press ⌥⌘Esc (Option-Command-Escape).
- Select the frozen app.
- Click Force Quit.
In one command
End an app by its name (the name as shown in the Dock):
killall "Microsoft Word"Force quitting loses anything unsaved in that app. Give it a minute first if it is busy saving.
Or just ask Titan
Zoom is frozen — close it and open it again.Do it with Titan
Titan is an AI that lives on your computer: tell it what you need and it does it while you watch — you press Return, nothing runs by itself. What is Titan?
Titan isn’t on this computer yet. Get Titan, then press the button again — the task will be waiting, typed in.