

If restarting Preview didn’t work, try restarting your Mac instead. This should close down the app even if it had frozen.Īfter successfully closing Preview, try opening it again to see if it works now. Then select Preview from the list of open apps on your Mac and choose to Force Quit it be warned, you’ll lose any unsaved progress when you do this. In that case, open the Apple menu and click Force Quit. However, this may not work if Preview isn’t responding. The safest way to close an app is to click Preview > Quit Preview in the menu bar. This allows Preview to uncross its wires and start afresh, hopefully working better on your Mac this time. Whether Preview is frozen or whether it’s refusing to open an image file, the first step to take is to close the app and start it up again.

If Preview Still Doesn’t Work, Use Another App.
