Today’s OS X Quick Tip is from Filip Lam. Click Here to check out his blog. Thanks Filip!
The quickest way to quit one application is to hit command+q. But what if you want to quit several?
Instead of highlighting every application you want to quit and then press a keyboard command, you can do it in this way. Hit command+tab to bring up a semi-transparent window (see picture) that let you see all open applications. Normally people use command+tab to switch application. But if you hit Q you will quit the highlighted app. You can move around by pressing the arrow keys or hit tab several times.
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3 thoughts on “OS X Quick Tip: Quickly Close All Apps”
Hi,
It would be a fantastic tip if it was working!
It is not the case with my PowerBook 15″ DVD-DL running 10.4.8
Brilliant! This is working for me in OS X Lion 10.7.2
Thanks so much for this tip! I switch from “desktop” mode to “on the go” mode with my laptop pretty frequently, and this makes the transition a whole lot faster.
p.s. some apps take longer to quit than others. Some shut down as soon as I hit “q”, some take a while. If your apps aren’t closing immediately, try waiting to see if they’re in the shutdown process. Especially high RAM consuming apps like Photoshop.