If you've been having recurring troubles, setting up Activity Monitor in your Dock is absolutely worth doing. Double-click on the Activity Monitor icon.Choose Utilities in the Applications window.Navigate to Applications in the sidebar.Once Activity Monitor comes up highlighted, hit Enter or click on it.Press Command + Space to open Spotlight.Unfortunately, there are no keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open your Mac process monitor, but launching Activity Monitor is still quite simple. But don't worry, we’ll discuss how to use Activity Monitor in a moment. If you've never used this task manager for Mac before, it can be quite a lot to take in. What is Activity Monitor?Īctivity Monitor is basically an alternative to Windows Task Manager, a utility that shows how much memory your Mac processes are using and which apps are currently active (even if they aren't open), letting you force quit stalled ones if you can't close them the usual way. So how to get Task Manager on Mac? Easy! There's already an OSX Task Manager pre-installed (or rather the Mac equivalent of Task Manager) - called Activity Monitor, which you can find in Applications > Utilities.īelow is a guide for long-time Windows users in the process of onboarding to Mac and hence wondering, 'Where is Task Manager?' 'How to get Task Manager on Mac?' 'How to open Task Manager on Mac?' Mac users who haven't used the MacBook Activity Monitor in a while will find the instructions on how to halt Mac processes useful as well.

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