![]() If you look right above that first setting you have Ask To Keep Changes When Closing Document. I launch Pages again and you could see my changes are there. But you can see here in Pages, if I were to make a change like this and without saving quit Pages, it auto-saves. If they don't they will prompt you to Save before you quit the app. Close all the current document windows and quit the app.īut what happens if I'm in the middle of working on a document that I haven't saved? Well, just about all Mac apps will auto-save. However, if you turn it On then quitting an app will actually do two things. If that is Off quitting an app and then restarting it will bring all the document windows back. The settings, Close Windows When Quitting An Application, is the one you want to look for. If you go to System Settings and then to Desktop & Dock there's a section here for Windows & Apps. Now whether it does this or not depends on your Settings. So you can actually be working on something, use Command Q to quit to get it out of the way and maybe switch to another task for awhile, and then when you go back to that application it resumes where you left off. As a matter of fact if you had several documents open in several windows they would all reopen automatically. Notice that the document that you had open before in a window, that reopens automatically. Now an interesting thing happens when you do that. Use Command Q or Quit Pages, and quit the app. Well if you just want to quit the app you can just quit it. So do you need two steps to quit an app? Do you need to close the document and then go to Pages, Quit Pages or Command Q. However, since Pages stays running because all you've done is close the document, not indicate that you want to quit Pages, you can now go and Open a new document without having to relaunch Pages. ![]() You actually have to launch Pages again before you start a new document. But if Pages quits now you've got two steps. What you may want to do then is close this document and now start a new one. Let's say you're working on this document here and you want to start a new one. Now here is the classic example of why this is useful. So even Microsoft Word, which doesn't always behave like a typical Mac App, will follow this basic rule. Then if I close the other you could see that it doesn't quit Microsoft Word. If I have two word documents open here I can close one. It even works that way in Microsoft apps. It's ready for me to open a New Window, New Private Window, or go to a Bookmark location. If I close this window Safari doesn't quit either. If I close this window here there is another one open. If I were to use the App Switcher, Command Tab, you could see Pages is one of the apps that is still running. You could see Pages is still running there and you could see it also here in the Dock with a dot under it. It closes this window with this document but doesn't quit the app. So there is a consistency of having this red button do the same thing. The other window is still there so using the red X button at the top left or File, Close or the keyboard shortcut Command W, all of those would simply close that window containing that document and you would be left with Pages still running with the other window, the other document, still there. Now you certainly wouldn't expect Pages to quit if I were to close one of these two windows. It's also true to say in browsers where a browser window or tab contains a location or in an app like Terminal where it contains an instance of using Terminal. This is true for Pages, Numbers, Keynote and other apps as well. So this is a typical application where a window contains a document. So I've got the word processor Pages open with two different documents in two windows. Now as an example here let's look at using Pages. But regardless of that, if you're used to closing a window on Windows to quit an app and then that is not happening on the Mac it can be a little confusing. So it is Windows that is actually doing the alternative. Now macOS and this behavior actually predates Windows. If you close the last window of a running application the application quits. Certainly in Microsoft Windows this works differently. So a common question of new Mac users is why, when you close a window, does the application not quit. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. ![]() There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let's look at why closing windows on a Mac doesn't quit the application. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Why Does Closing Windows on a Mac not Quit the Application? at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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