This App Can’t Be Moved To Trash Because it’s Open or in Use on Mac OS

This App Can’t Be Moved To Trash Because it’s Open or in Use on Mac OS

Are you trying to remove unwanted Apps are installed on your Mac, But Mac System show or giving a message like “app can’t be moved to trash because it’s open or in Use”, “After force quite app running the app on screen still not deleting”. Here I found the exact solution for all the Mac users who are running MacOS Mojave, High Sierra. I also discussed why this happens for the selected apps that cannot delete from Launchpad or under the application folder.

Also message clearly shown the app is running, open or in use. So, first, we need to find where is the app open and how to identify. In the reply, activity monitor will help to find running the app in the background, then force close from activity monitor.
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To check running the app on activity monitor, Open spotlight search > type “Activity Monitor” > Search app name from search box under the Memory tab.

Here, I want to delete the Google Drive app. Select all the process threads of Google Drive one by one and Click on “X” mark in activity monitor.



Next, Activity monitor will ask for “Force Quit” process, Go with it and done by completely stop all the process behind the particular app.



After closing down all types of process thread from the system we can go for uninstalling application in alternate ways.
Move trash or uninstall the app from the Application folder

Under the Application, folder finds the app that you want to move into the Trash/Remove or uninstall.



Note: you can’t remove or uninstall the app that has been preinstalled on a system with MacOS. Make sure and try to remove only third-party app or app store app.

Above steps, we should try in the case simple method to force quite or uninstall app not work or close frozen windows on Mac.

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