Activity Monitor in Mac: force close applications

Activity monitor is an default macbook application which is used for tracking the current activities on your device.

In this tutorial we will explore how can we use activity monitor and explore capabilities of activity monitor.

1- Closing unresponsive applications and processes

If your system and some applications simply not responding, sometimes app or process might be the source of problem.

To be able to close the application simply select the process in the activity monitor.

Let’s think notes application is not responding

To close the process simply click on the name of the process and click quit

There will be a prompt you can choose Quit or Force Quit

2- Check CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk and Network usage