MacOS – Stop El Capitan from asking to report to Apple every time I force quit an application

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Every time I force quit an application from Activity Monitor, I get a pop-up saying "You have forced to quit. Click Report to see from detailed information and sent a report to Apple.". It gives me the option to Ignore or Report.

Is there a way to stop getting this notification altogether? In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Diagnostics & Usage I already have everything unchecked.

I found this on the web and also tried writing this on the terminal

defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none

But this didn't help either.

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Best Answer

Using defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none really should disable it, just like using defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType crashreport should switch it back on.

However, if it's not working for you, you can try the following two commands:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist

To undo the above change, you would use the same two commands, but replace unload with load in each.

Use a notification instead

Removing the Crash Reporter may be overkill for some users, so another option is to change this to a notification instead. To do this, use:

defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType UseUNC 1

The advantage of this is you still get notified if an app has crashed, but you don't have to respond in any way (nothing to click on). To undo this change you would use the same entry but replace the 1 with a 0.

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