Rebooting or shutting down a computer every day just isn’t necessary for most people. Of course whether or not you should sleep, shut down, or just leave your Mac turned on is a matter of debate, but for a lot of cases we recommend either leaving the device turned on or just putting it to sleep. It’s shown below on a MacBook Air if you’re still unsure: If you have no idea what the power button is, it looks kind of like (|) and is either located in the upper right corner of the keyboard for most modern Macs and portable Macs, or physically located on the Mac itself for desktop models and older MacBook models. Notice there are not controls specifically for the display in these choices, for that you will still need to either use the lock screen keystroke or a hot corner that is configured to sleep only the display. Escape – Exits out of the power controls, the same effect as “Cancel” How to force quit on Mac First, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner of your screen and choose Force Quit from the dropdown menu.Return – Shuts down the Mac, but includes a prompt for apps that have unsaved data or if LAN users are connected. ![]() R – Restarts the Mac, but with a prompt if some apps are open and unsaved or if users are connected via networking.Here are the interaction keys and their corresponding actions: ![]() The Keyboard Shortcuts for Sleeping, Restarting, Shutting Down the Mac Obviously you can now choose to just click the appropriate button if you’d like, the menu that comes up looks like this:īut it turns out that each of those button options corresponds with a single keyboard action as well, and keeping hands on a keyboard is often faster for advanced users.
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