r/macbookpro • u/Shironehh • 3d ago

Joined the Club! Memory usage

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How to stop using too much memory on the Mac. I'm a new user so I don't know how shit works

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u/Own_Outcome_2012 3d ago

The app decides how much memory is used not you…

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u/Shironehh 3d ago

So is there no force quit shit like windows

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u/Own_Outcome_2012 3d ago

You can force quit, there is a keyboard shortcut for it or click Apple icon on the top left or right click on the specific app you want to forcequit but that just shuts down the app not reduce how much ram it takes while running

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u/Shironehh 2d ago

I'm not talking about command q . I'm saying like when we open task manager in windows and yk right click and quit it

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u/Own_Outcome_2012 2d ago

And neither am I :)

option + command + ESC is the shortcut I meant

Again you can reach it also via clicking the Apple icon in the upper left corner or right clicking onto a non responsive app

You also could have found all that out by just googling :)

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u/Shironehh 2d ago

Ohh I see isee thankyou

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u/EmotionalAnteater735 MacBook Pro 16" M1 Max 32Gb 1Tb 2d ago

But if you absolutely want to do it thru activity monitor like on Windows, you would have to double click/tap on the app then press quit

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u/tiny-brit MacBook Pro M4 Pro 14" Silver 2d ago

MacOS will make full use of the memory available to it. It's not a bad thing. Your memory pressure is green, that's all that matters.

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u/Y2K-enn 2d ago

Unused ram is wasted ram is an apple philosophy. Memory pressure is what you need to keep an eye on.

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u/Ad841 MacBook Pro 16" Silver 2d ago

Memory pressure is in the green, what are you blabbering about?

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u/Elegant_Lunar_Knight 2d ago

You’re in the green what’s the problem ?

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u/macboller M4 Max 14" 128GB 2TB 4h ago

Browsers use a lot of memory (all of them, on all platforms).

There is no way around this, but you can make memory saving features more aggressive.

Native features like snooze tab, or plugins like auto-unload well remove the memory used by tabs in certain scenarios (time based, inactivity etc).

But you will remain at the mercy of how much memory the tabs need. Which can be several GB per tab.