How to stop MacOS from reopening apps after a crash

When the power goes out, my mac starts up and reopens everything that was running.

This is undesirable.

I would like for MacOS to never reopen windows when logging back in.

NOTE: I mentioned a crash from the power outage: this means that I cannot check the "do not reopen windows when logging back in" box.

Posted on Dec 13, 2021 5:08 AM

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Posted on Dec 13, 2021 5:10 AM

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/309140/291858

CLI method

Open Terminal.app
Make the file owned by root (otherwise the OS will just replace it)

sudo chown root ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow*

Remove all permissions, so it can't be read or written to

sudo chmod 000 ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow*

CLI method (undo)

Re-enable "reopen all apps" after login

sudo rm -f ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow*

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