

This helps to improve overall performance. Your Mac caches a lot of data that it needs to access quickly and regularly. Give it a pass if you aren't comfortable changing system settings in the Terminal. Obviously, this is a more advanced solution to try.


After that, you can enter the rest unhindered as long as you don't close and re-open Terminal. You'll have to provide your admin password when you enter the first command. You can reduce this from 20 seconds to five seconds by copying and pasting the following commands into the Terminal app: sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ ExitTimeOut -int 5 sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ ExitTimeOut -int 5 sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ ExitTimeOut -int 5 sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ ExitTimeOut -int 5 sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/.authentication ExitTimeOut -int 5 If the problem persists, you can try to speed up the time macOS takes to close apps when it's shutting down.īy default, the system gives apps 20 seconds to close, after which it will attempt to force-quit them.
