Restart your Mac properly
Why should I restart?
To keep your Mac running at its best, a restart often helps to set things straight.
If your Mac is managed by an IT admin, e.g. via jamf, Mosyle or our own RADAR service, it is crucial to restart your Mac before you leave for the day, so the management system can do its thing without interrupting your daily work.
INFO > If your Mac is not at the login screen, updates can not be installed and may be installed upon the next startup, which will hold you back from starting your work.
Properly restarting
Often open apps do not properly quit, when you click the restart command and walk away.
Instead wait and check for any stalled apps or prompts to save your open files, e.g. you may have a new Pages or Word document still open which has not yet been saved.
Until you either discard or save such open files, the respective app will not quit thus preventing your Mac to restart.
TIP > In the Dock monitor the black dot indicators for open apps.
Force Quit
Sometimes stalled apps, may need to be Force Quit before macOS can restart.
Go to Apple Menu > Force Quit, and select any Applications which show as Application not responding…
Login screen
Once you see your Mac at the login screen you are good to go…
TIP > A managed Mac should not be switched completely off, unless there is a good reason, e.g. during air travel. Instead keep it at the login screen, after restart as often as possible.
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