Quitting ChatGPT App

By Maldalain, 12 February, 2025

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macOS and Mac Apps

I can not quit ChatGPT app for mac from the Status Menus. I only stop it from the Activity Monitor. Any idea how to quit the app in easier way?
TIA

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By Gar on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 22:15

Try the keyboard shortcut command Q while you're in the ChatGPT window? That's a standard Mac command to close an app.

By Maldalain on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 22:15

No, this will quit the active window of the app, the app will keep showing in the status menus.

By Levi Gobin on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 22:15

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I have a custom Apple script that ChatGPT made that you can assign to a keyboard command which will quit the currently running process, sort of like the NVDA kill process add-on, but for Mac voiceover. I’ll post it when I am at my Mac later.
For me, I have it set up to option Q.
When I’m in the ChatGPT app, I press option Q, and the ChatGPT app get killed. It’s also more useful than trying to get command option shift escape to work. This guarantees to work in any app.

By Levi Gobin on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 - 22:15

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

tell application "System Events"
set focusedApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
end tell

do shell script "killall " & quoted form of focusedApp

Assign this to your prefered VoiceOver command, then press that command in the ChatGPT app, and it will be closed, and you will not see it in your menubar.

By Maldalain on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 22:15

Many thanks!