Master the art of controlling your Mac effortlessly with keyboard shortcuts. Learn how to shut down, sleep, or restart your Mac with just a few keystrokes.

If your MacBook or desktop Mac is slowing to a crawl or frozen, these are the easiest and simplest ways to hard-restart your Mac device.

To restart an Intel Mac in Recovery Mode, hold Command+R when the computer restarts. For Apple Silicon Macs, press and hold the power button until startup options show on the screen.

How to Force Restart Apple Vision Pro If the above steps didn't work for you, don't disconnect the battery on ‌Apple Vision Pro‌ to shut it down. Instead, try a force restart.

How to restart a Mac using your keyboard Not a Windows fan? If you don't have a Windows PC and instead use a MacBook, there's an even easier way to restart your computer using just the keyboard.