Keyboard shortcuts for Shut down, restart, and sleep

Summary

You can use the keyboard shortcuts outlined in this article to shut down or restart Macs that have a keyboard with an Eject key.

Note: Key names are separated by a hyphen (-), such as "Control-Eject". You do not type the hyphen as part of the key combination.

Products Affected

Keyboards, Mac OS

Control-Eject

The dialog box "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?" appears with options to Restart, Sleep, Cancel or Shut Down. After the dialog appears, press the R key to Restart, press the S key to Sleep, press the Esc key to Cancel, or press the Return key to Shut Down.

Control-Command-Eject

Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and restarts the computer.

Control-Option-Command-Eject

Quits all applications (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents) and shuts the computer down.

Command-Option-Eject

Puts the computer to sleep.

Shift-Control-Eject

Puts all displays to sleep.

Power button (if the computer is not responding)

Press and hold the power button on the computer for six seconds to shut down the computer.

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