Quit a Mac application from a JavaScript for Automation (JXA) script

Question

The AppleScript way to quit a Mac application is:

tell application "iTunes"
  quit
end tell

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '17 at 23:21

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Quitting an application with JavaScript for Automation is done like this:

var itunes = Application('iTunes');
itunes.quit();

(Note that the Application call looks inside the /Applications directory. Any app there can be called by name.)

answered Feb 09 '17 at 23:21

Alan W. Smith

Note that in general this works. However, I've found that if an application is open but has no windows (ie, because it has not been "hard quit" yet), calling quit() does not work. Is there another way? – SeanRtS Oct 27 '21 at 13:41

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