---
title: "How to view all running processes on Mac"  
description: "This Mac process monitor app allows viewing all active processes as well as find additional information and killing any processes no matter if they ar"  
author: "Peter Norton"  
published: 2018-12-06  
updated: 2018-12-06  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23443/how-to-view-all-running-processes-on-mac  
category: "internet"  
tags: ["mac os x"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to view all running processes on Mac

In this [article](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84667/how-congress-government-misused-the-article-356) we will highlight two topics such as “How to see what [programs](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157528/how-exceptions-can-be-handled-in-sql-server-programs) are running on Mac?” and “How to close programs on Mac?”.

There exist different ways to monitor the [activity](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/12894/how-to-force-recreation-of-activity-fragment-on-restore) on a Mac, [starting](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/12024/things-you-need-to-know-when-starting-your-own-business) from checking at Dock and finishing by opening the [Terminal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72321/what-is-terminal-high-altitude-area-defense-thaad-sometimes-seen-in-the-news) for more [advanced](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1506/facts-that-prove-ancient-indian-science-was-incredibly-advanced) view of your current activity. So here, we go.

**Monitor [background](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/65/how-to-change-background-color-of-tab-control-in-c-sharp) activity by checking at Dock**\

This method is considered to be the easiest and [fastest](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4819/10-fastest-animals-in-the-world) way although it allows only to check windowed apps and doesn’t show other apps running in the background. The running app, as a rule, has a small dot [beneath](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/98037/the-world-beneath-his-feet-is-a-biography-of) the icon. In order to quit [application](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/59/xaml-extensible-application-markup-language) Mac users need to right click it and choose the Force Quit option.

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