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You're kidding right? I hate that behaviour of MacOS. If I told the OS to shut down/restart, I meant it. Kill everything and get on with it, I shouldn't have to

You're kidding right? I hate that behaviour of MacOS. If I told the OS to shut down/restart, I meant it. Kill everything and get on with it, I shouldn't have to babysit. If I told it to update, I didn't mean "oh pretty please but if it's too hard don't worry about it", I meant "I know this ii. update is going to take an hour for a point release for some reason, but I'm going for a walk now - go ahead so IT gets off my back". Also I've had many issues with my macbook overheating/discharging in my bag because I hit sleep, it looked like it was sleeping, but it was still on/woke up. Admittedly not a huge amount because of COVID but still.

bobbylarrybobby 5y ago
Can’t you just wait two minutes for it yo cycle through all open apps and click “don’t save”/“terminate” on all of them?
- andrepd 5y ago
  But why isn't there simply a Terminate All button?
  - distances 5y ago
    It's the power button, just force instant power off if you don't mind an integrity check at next startup!
  - shbooms 5y ago
    there is, sort of, but it's got one or two extra steps (and most folks probably don't know it exists). 1. Press Cmd+Option+Escape to bring up the Force Quit menu 2. Press Cmd+A to select all running apps 3. Click the "Force Quit" Button to force quit all apps
    - masto 5y ago
      And then it doesn’t work, so after half an hour of staring at a grey screen, you give up and hold down the power button.
      - rsanek 5y ago
        Why wait at all in that case and not just hold down the power button right away?
brokencode 5y ago
Just killing all apps is a very hostile default for a consumer OS. You might be able to force a restart from the terminal if you really don’t care about data integrity though.