You can add, remove, or rearrange Quit menu items, you can choose how to sort running applications and whether to mark Intel applications, and you can exclude specific applications to keep them always running.
Open Application Wizard and choose Window > Menus. Then click Quit Menu in the sidebar.
To add an item to the Quit menu, click the Add (+) button in the toolbar and choose the new item.
To rearrange items in the Quit menu, drag them in the list.
To remove one or more items from the Quit menu, select them in the list and click the Remove (-) button in the toolbar or press the Delete key.
By default, running applications are sorted alphabetically in the Quit menu. To list them from the most recent one to the oldest one, select the “Sort running applications chronologically” checkbox.
By default, on Apple Silicon Macs, the Quit menu marks Intel applications and Universal applications which have been forced to run using Rosetta, so that you can see that they are running non-natively. To remove the Intel marks, deselect the “Mark applications opened using Rosetta” checkbox.
If you have applications that you want to keep always running, you can exclude them from the Quit menu so that they remain open when you choose Quit All and Quit Others.
To exclude an application, click the Add (+) button at the bottom of the excluded applications list, browse and select the application, and click Add. You can also exclude applications by dragging them from the Finder or from the Applications panel to the list.
If the application you want to exclude is contained in a file package, Control-click the package and choose Show Package Contents from the shortcut menu. Display the application you want to exclude and drag it from the Finder to the excluded applications list.
To replace an excluded application, select it in the list and choose Change Application from the Action pop-up menu. Browse and select the new application and click Change. To remove an excluded application, select it in the list and click the Remove (-) button or press the Delete key.
To open excluded applications automatically when you log in, select the “Open excluded applications automatically” checkbox. If you want to hide the excluded applications after they open automatically, select the Hide checkbox.
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