Shortcut to shutdown on the new Macbook Pro Touch Bar running High Sierra?
I used to do CTRL-Eject but that's no longer an option
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I used to do CTRL-Eject but that's no longer an option
Turn on, restart, sleep, and shut down
Press Touch ID to turn on your MacBook Pro if it's open and turned off. If your MacBook Pro is closed and turned off, simply open it to turn it on.
Unlike with older Mac notebooks, holding down Touch ID on your MacBook Pro doesn't display a dialog with options to Sleep, Restart, or Shut Down. You can find these options in the Apple menu. If your MacBook Pro is unresponsive, you can hold down Touch ID for six seconds to force a shut down. Note that you'll lose any unsaved work if you do this.
Pressing Touch ID won’t put your MacBook Pro to sleep. Instead, choose Apple menu > Sleep. You can also add a Sleep button to the Control Strip in the Touch Bar:
Turn on, restart, sleep, and shut down
Press Touch ID to turn on your MacBook Pro if it's open and turned off. If your MacBook Pro is closed and turned off, simply open it to turn it on.
Unlike with older Mac notebooks, holding down Touch ID on your MacBook Pro doesn't display a dialog with options to Sleep, Restart, or Shut Down. You can find these options in the Apple menu. If your MacBook Pro is unresponsive, you can hold down Touch ID for six seconds to force a shut down. Note that you'll lose any unsaved work if you do this.
Pressing Touch ID won’t put your MacBook Pro to sleep. Instead, choose Apple menu > Sleep. You can also add a Sleep button to the Control Strip in the Touch Bar:
Try: holding down the Control-Option-Command keys while momentarily pressing the Power Button.
That's how's it's done on 12" Retina MacBooks (they don't have an Eject key), might work the same way on your MacBook Pro.
Macbook Pro with Touch Bar
The shortcut you mentioned no longer works.
Turn off (shut down) your Mac
The best way to shut down your Mac is to choose Shut Down from the Apple () menu.
Just as your Mac follows a startup process after it turns on, it follows a shutdown process before it turns off. That process includes automatically quitting all open apps and logging out of your macOS user account.
It is possible, but involves an AppleScript and Automator.
1 Launch Automator and follow the instructions from Monomeeth here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/175215/how-do-i-assign-a-keyboard-shor tcut-to-an-applescript-i-wrote
2 Paste the script between (* Your script goes here *)
display dialog “Your mac will shut down in 6 seconds!” with title “shut down” giving up after 6
tell application “System Events” to set quitapps to name of every application process whose visible is true and name is not “Finder”
repeat with closeall in quitapps
quit application closeall
end repeat
tell application “Finder”
shut down
end tell
Once you've saved your service as something meaningful, assign a keyboard shortcut. I used Command Alt 0 so as not to conflict with built in shortcuts.
Hope this helps
Mike
Didn't work for me. This is what I have in automator:
on run {input, parameters}
(* display dialog “Your mac will shut down in 6 seconds!” with title “shut down” giving up after 6
tell application “System Events” to set quitapps to name of every application process whose visible is true and name is not “Finder”
repeat with closeall in quitapps
quit application closeall
end repeat
tell application “Finder”
shut down
end tell *)
return input
end run
When I hit the shortcut it doesn't do anything
Unlike with older Mac notebooks, holding down Touch ID on your MacBook Pro doesn't display a dialog with options to Sleep, Restart, or Shut Down. You can find these options in the Apple menu.
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That’s a sloppy answer. That’s not a shortcut. I’m looking for a shortcut. You didn’t answer the question
Actually it does work but only with a external keyboard. So if an external keyboard is able to trigger shutdown, why can’t the local keyboard do the same?
You are not answering the question. And I can't find a sleep button, what does it look like?
Thanks Lanny. Didn't work ;-(
did you read the question? I asked for a shortcut. I didn’t ask how to shutdown. I already know how
Macbook pro with Touch Bar
Yes I read the question. There are no shortcuts.
Apple specifically says it. I posted links to relevant articles.
Best.
Yes, but there has to be ways around it and I am looking for alternative solutions. So if you don't have an answer please abstain
Shortcut to shutdown on the new Macbook Pro Touch Bar running High Sierra?