This User Tip is designed for Mac's that are capable of running OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) to any Mac running OS X Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion. (10.8) The Steps appear to work also in OS X Mavericks (10.9) at this time. Some words: The Steps are numbered, if instructed, then just jump to do that Step or run through them in a process of elimination. If you’re using a Mac desktop without a T2 chip (such as an iMac), switch it off, unplug the power cord and wait 15 seconds, plug it back in, then turn on your Mac. If your Mac has a T2 chip.

Columns in the tables:

• Sym: The symbol representing the key
• Key: The common name of the key
• CrossPlat?: Whether the symbol is cross-platform. If 'No', then the symbol is unlikely to render properly outside the Apple ecosystem.
• Alt: An alternate symbol used in some contexts (e.g., legacy)
• Alt CrossPlat?: Whether the alternate symbol is cross-platform

Modifiers

When a key combination is displayed, the modifiers are written in the order presented here. For example, Control + Option + Shift + Command + Q would be written as ⌃⌥⇧⌘Q.

The Command key was formerly represented by an Apple logo. The Apple logo is one fo the few symbols here that can be easily typed with a typical keyboard layout: ⌥⇧K

There is also an Fn modifier on modern Mac keyboards. Typically, this isn't seen in keyboard shortcuts because it's primarily used to access keys F1 through F20. However, it can technically be combined with Control plus one other key to get a unique legacy combination. Each of these Fn + Control combinations maps to a character in Unicode's U+F700 to U+F7FF private use range. Some programs will erroneously print these characters upon receiving such a combination. With system Mac fonts, these characters lack visible glyphs and are for internal use only. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

NeXT's OpenStep reserved corporate characters in the range 0xF700 to0xF8FF for transient use as keyboard function keys. The ones actuallyassigned in NextStep are 0xF700-0xF747, as follows. These are stillused in the Mac OS X AppKit frameworks. Note that there is no glyphassociated with these, and they are not mapped or used by the Mac OSText Encoding Converter.

Normal

The alternate eject symbol,  (U+F804), is from a Unicode private use region. Apple designates it for use with mapping to/from the Mac OS Keyboard encoding. Ideally, the official Unicode variant should be used instead, as it will be compatible with fonts on other platforms. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/CORPCHAR.TXT:

The following (11) are for mapping the Mac OS Keyboard and Mac OS Koreanencodings (for Mac OS Korean also see 0xF83D, 0xF840-0xF84F).

Reference: ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT

These are the official Unicode symbol mappings published by Apple.

Some entries are missing key names; these don't map to physical keys.

LTR indicates usage with left-to-right languages: that means text flows from left to right, such as in most Western languages. RTL indicates the opposite. Many keyboards have both Delete Left and Delete Right, regardless of text direction.

ISO indicates a symbol designated by an ISO standard. ISO standard symbols aren't necessarily used by Mac.

Symbols composed of multiple Unicode characters are special in that they are treated as a single character on Mac, despite appearing as multiple symbols. For most of the characters, this grouping is controlled by the first character, which is a Unicode private use character that is invisible on Mac. The others use standard Unicode combining techniques. Quote from ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/KEYBOARD.TXT:

The block of 32 characters 0xF860-0xF87F is for transcoding hints.These are used in combination with standard Unicode characters to forcethem to be treated in a special way for mapping to other encodings;they have no other effect.

In any incomprehensible situation, press Ctrl + Alt + Del – this tenet has been guided by users of the Windows operating system for decades. However, with the transition to macOS, this principle is no longer relevant, what should be done in the event of a program “freezing” and other troubles?

What for Control + Alt + Delete?

If you recently switched from Windows to Mac, and your program “hung”, the first reaction is to press the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Delete. But on Mac this shortcut does not work – although macOS, of course, has similar functionality. So what needs to be pressed?

To begin with, Ctrl + Alt + Delete in Windows 10 is not the best shortcut. Why? The fact is that it does not immediately lead you to the Task Manager, where you can try to close a non-working program. Instead, you will see a menu with a variety of options – exit to the lock screen, change the user, exit the account, change the password…

Read more: How to Force Quit Applications on a Mac?

And only at the very bottom will there be a link to the Task Manager. If you still use Windows and need the Manager from time to time, it makes sense to learn a special shortcut for launching it – Ctrl + Shift + Esc.

Control + Alt + Delete Equivalent for macOS

macOS differs from Microsoft platform in its stable operation, but developers from Cupertino, of course, cannot ensure the absolute uninterrupted operation of the system. When using the correct operational support, emergency situations happen infrequently, but you should not turn off the computer from the outlet whenever an application stops responding.

Apple has developed a special utility for such cases called Task Manager, to open it just use this guide:

Adrift (alts) Mac Os X

• You can go to it using the shortcut Cmd + Option + Esc;

• It is very simple to work with it – just click on the name of the “frozen” application (most likely, it will say “does not respond” next to it);
• Click the Finish button in the lower right corner.

Conclusion

Mac Os Versions

As you had time to notice, “Force Quit” greatly eases the problem with frozen applications. I hope this article will help you to more quickly respond to everyday problems in macOS and save you time and effort.