Why Do I Need to Restart My Mac Every Week?

Restarting your computer helps keep it running smoothly. It clears the active memory (cache), stopping any tasks that are eating up RAM. Even if you’ve closed an app, it could still tap your memory. A restart can also fix peripheral and hardware issues!

Restarting regularly keeps the Kandji Agent (checks in every 15 minutes) and the MDM component (checks in once a day) in touch with your computer so that it can accurately update apps and the OS (Operating System), these updates are necessary to keep your computer and the OMCA network secure. 

1. Kandji recommends restarting every few days, and especially if an update seems "stuck". See more about how Kandji updates work here

The most common objection to restarting is that you "won't have all your apps and pages open" and it might take time to get "right back to where you were". 

1. You can easily go to Recent Documents in the File Menu of most apps, and in Chrome you can set the same pages and tabs to reopen whenever you start it, just make sure your Chrome Profile is syncing so that this setting carries to all your devices:
   

Think of keeping your OMCA Mac up to date as part of your work, not an "interruption" to it. Like any tool, it requires some care and maintenance. Kandji makes it super easy, all the updates are automatically pushed to your computer. All you need to do is to allow the updates to install when prompted, and restart your computer every few days! The more you delay updates or fail to restart on a regular basis, the more you may be "interrupted" when your computer is not functioning properly... 

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