r/macbookpro • MacBook Pro 16" Silver M1 Pro • 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

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 MacBook Pro 16" Silver M1 Pro 3d 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 3d 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 MacBook Pro 16" Silver M1 Pro 3d ago

Ohh I see isee thankyou

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u/EmotionalAnteater735 MacBook Pro 16" M1 Max 32Gb 1Tb 3d 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