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How to Stop Command+Q from Quitting Apps by Accident on Mac
QBlocker made you hold CommandQ to quit an app. Its last version is from May 2016, it needs Rosetta on Apple silicon, and Homebrew disabled it in April 2026 because it is not maintained. SlowQuitApps, an open-source app that did the same, had its last release in December 2020.
With Supercharge
- Open Supercharge, and give it the access that it asks for in “Device Control and Data Access”.
- Open the Supercharge settings, and click “Tweaks”.
- In the “Apps & Windows” section, choose one of these in “Prevent accidental quits by quitting apps with”:
- Press and hold CommandQ.
- Hold Command and press Q twice.
- Press ShiftCommandQ.
Then a single press of CommandQ does nothing, and the way you chose quits the app. You can make it work only in some apps, or in all apps except some.
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Without an app
macOS has no setting for this, but you can give the Quit command of one app another shortcut, so CommandQ does nothing in that app:
- Open “System Settings › Keyboard”, and click “Keyboard Shortcuts…”.
- Click “App Shortcuts”, and click the add button.
- Choose the app, and type the name of its Quit command exactly like in its menu, like “Quit Safari”.
- Click “Keyboard shortcut”, press the new shortcut, and click “Done”.
The menu title is different in each app, so you must do this for each app. Supercharge works for all apps at once.