Force Quit Apps Stick in Dock

This has happened a few times with a few different apps (Webkit/safari, itunes, and others i can't think of right now)
What happens is the app will beachball, ill force quit afterwhich it will still appear in the doc, but cannot be opened, and jsut reappears in the forequit window everytime i try to force quit.
this then causes me to do a hard shutdown to resolve the issue.
I am running safari 3 with latest version of webkit, but i didnt think this was an issue. And also, its not just safari.
any ideas?

have you tried killing the process in activity monitor? there might be some other things running that prevent the app from completely shutting down. just a thought

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Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Prior to loading 1OS7 it was easy to force quit applications that were still open by double clicking and seeing an a red "x" you had to click on.
It doesn't work that way with the new operating system and the instructions that were given "Force-quitting apps is a little different though: Instead of tapping and holding on the icon, you flick a thumbnail up to dismiss it."
Do not work.
I am looking for anyone who can help figure this out.

HT5137 I went to the genius bar the other day and was told that force quitting apps was the single worst thing I can do to my phone or iPad, short of dropping and damaging it, or jailbreaking it. Is this true or false?

I went to the genius bar the other day and was told that force quitting apps was the single worst thing I can do to my phone or iPad, short of dropping and damaging it, or jailbreaking it.That it is bad for the software, firmware and battery. The employee was very excited about the topic and cringed when I force quit in front of him. He gave me the url to read about multi-tasking so that i could read more. But neither that page nor the force quitting apps page says anything about this activity being bad. Is it so bad? If so, why don't we know that? So many people I know force quit in an effort to have fewer pages appear.

Thank you for the feedback. I can breathe a sigh of relief that I can once again clear these pages from my sight. This employee said he tells about a half dozen people a day when they come in with various problems, as he is attributing their problems to force quitting. It's like he was out to save the world, one iphone user at a time. I'm talking *serious* passion from this man!

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Try to reset your device by holding the sleep and home button until the Apple logo comes back again.
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When force quitting Apps' Icon remains in Dock

I'm having a problem when I have to force quit applications. When I Force Quit an application the app quits but the apps' icon with the indicater still on remains in the dock. When this happens I'm unable to launch the same app again. This is really getting to be a pain so any help would be appreciated.

I would be more concerned with the fact that you are required to Force Quit applications, as that suggests something more serious than a stuck icon in the Dock which is but a symptom.
You could start up in safe mode,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455?viewlocale=en_US
which perform an fsck on the disk, which may rectify a problem with your disk, as well as excluding third party applications until the next normal restart. This could give you some indication of whether the problem is caused by some third party app or not.

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Problem update: reinstalling 10.4.7, this time as a combo update, did the trick - I guess the dock got corrupted and had to be replaced.
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While visit the apple store this weekend in regards to our phone not working they asked if we double tap the home and slide up on our apps to close them, of force quit the application. We responded yes and were told never to do this. However on previous visits we were told to do this because multiple apps will drain the battery and slow the phone down. I would love to know what the correct answer to this is and understand why we would be told two different things.

Closing apps does not harm anything.
Whoever told you that is mentally challenged.

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… in iOS 8?
Or does that do more harm than good?
TIA!

Thanks. This paragraph makes it most clear, doesn't it:
By closing the app, you take the app out of the phone's RAM. While you think this may be what you want to do, it's not. When you open that same app again the next time you need it, your device has to load it back into memory all over again. All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone. Plus, iOS closes apps automatically as it needs more memory, so you're doing something your device is already doing for you. You are meant to be the user of your device, not the janitor.
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I have almost 800GB of hard drive space, so it cant be an issue there. I read that it could be problems with the system and virtual memory and swaps, but dont know how to diagnose.

(it's not a PC it's an iMac)
hehe . I knew someone's going to pick up on that.
At the end of the day, it is still a PC. A Personal Computer.
No matter how hard Apple's marketing detaprtment has worked to pretend they are not...

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iphoto tells me it can't open because it's upgrading but it is not and I did not click upgrade

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Double-clicking home button doesn't work anymore.
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Force Quit Won't Work/Epic Lock Ups

So I just recently started having trouble with my Macbook Pro involving applications locking up, and then not being able to force quit. Oh, they pretend to force quit. In fact they show dialogues saying they've quit, and their windows disapear, however in the force quit box, the cmd+tab window, and the dock the apps are all still there.
If I try and do a force quit again from the dock, the finder locks up.
The only fix is to force my computer to reboot, which cannot be healthy doing so much.
Other weird bugs is that once I do this forced shutdown/reboot my external drives will be missing files I previously moved to them (say I moved from drive a to b, after this forced reboot they'll be back on a and not on b)
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Message was edited by: ehmjay

ehmjay wrote:
The only fix is to force my computer to reboot, which cannot be healthy doing so much.
True.
The only thing I can think that's causing it is I have an external drive that's been acting up and I didn't start having this problem until the drive starting acting up... but I wouldn't think they're related!
Why not? That's the first place I'd look! It's likely your Mac is going nutso (pardon the technical term) trying to talk to a disk that isn't behaving. Eject that drive and see if the problems stop. If they do, back it up immediately if you can. Then try repairing the disk and permissions.
You might also look in your logs. Note the time of an incident, then use the Console app (Applications/Utilities). Click Show Log List in the toolbar, then select Console Messages in the sidebar and navigate to the date & time of the incident.
Most of the messages there are gibberish to us mere mortals, but some may provide a clue or two. Copy a representative sample and post here, if you wish.

Quitting apps

how do i quit an app in the menu bar which isnt listed in the forced quit apps menu? its an app that is a cpu indicator- a little light

I assume by your reference to "menubar"" you mean something up on the top right part of the screen - yes?
Two things to try:
(1) Control-click on the icon in the menubar and see if quit is an option.
(2) Command-drag the icon off of the menubar and let it go up in a puff of smoke.
Or do you mean something in the Dock?
charlie

Since 2.2.1 upgrade, force quit doesn't work after an application freezes

Sorry if this was posted before, but I couldn't find a post that matched my issue.
Has anyone else noticed that since upgrading to 2.2.1 on the 3G, if an application freezes, force quit doesn't work. I have to do a hard reset inorder to get the OS to respond again. Even tried to just hold the power button to do a power off and it doesn't respond.
Any advice? Tried restoring to 2.2.1 many times didn't help.

Thanks for the response. I have done a many restores as "new iphone" and reinstalled apps. I normally get freezes when I'm in a twitter type application and using the "mini/lite safari browser" within the twitter app.
When the phone doesn't freeze, I can force quit apps at will. It's only after a freeze (when I need force quit the most) does it not work....
I would make a Genius Bar appointment but I can't recreate it at will.

Cannot force quit itunes

Recently, starting with version 4.8 on some occasions itunes will 1. appear to quit when quitting but if I try to open it again I find itunes has not quit it only looks like it has. The menu at the top shows it as a running application, the little triangle in the dock shows it as a running application hold down the mouse and the message "Application not responding" and force quit as an option yet when I force quit from either the dock or keyboard itunes will not and does not quit. After several attempts to force quit I have to restart a royal pain!!! What in the wide wide world of sports is going on here?

Michael hello,
welcome to the Apple Discussions there is something else running that wants to use iTunes, shut down 1st and then quit...
The most likely candidates will be the iTunes widget in dashboard or a plugin or another program or script... use Activity Monitor from Utilities and show 'active Processes' this will tell you what is running...
take care Michael.... TP

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