Amphetamine | Toothpicks Support Portal

If Amphetamine is not working properly, a common solution is to reset Amphetamine's preferences. 

Note that deleting Amphetamine's preferences will result in a complete reset of the application. 

This means you will lose all Triggers, custom icons, custom default durations, and all other configuration. 

Amphetamine will be reset to a default state.

1. Quit Amphetamine

From Amphetamine's menu choose "Quit Amphetamine." If Amphetamine is unresponsive, or you cannot use Amphetamine's menu for some reasons, try these methods to quit Amphetamine:

Force Quit

Note: This option is not available if you have chosen to have Amphetamine's Dock icon hidden.

• On your keyboard, press the keys Command ⌘, Option ⌥, Escape
• Select Amphetamine in the list of running apps, and click the Force Quit button

Force Quit from Activity Monitor

• Launch Activity Monitor.app from /Applications/Utilities
• Select the CPU tab in Activity Monitor
• Use the Search field in the top right corner to search for "Amphetamine"
• Select Amphetamine in the list of running processes
• Click the Stop button (looks like a stop sign with an X in the middle) in the upper left corner of Activity Monitor to force Amphetamine to quit

Force Quit From Terminal

• Launch Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities
• In a new Terminal window, enter the following command: 

killall 'Amphetamine'

2. Reset Amphetamine's Preferences

• Launch Terminal.app from /Applications/Utilities
• In a new Terminal window, type the following command:defaults delete com.if.Amphetamine
• Use the enter/return key to execute the command
• In the same Terminal window, type the following command: rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.if.Amphetamine
• Use the enter/return key to execute the command
• In the same Terminal window, type the following command:

rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.if.Amphetamine.LaunchAtLoginHelper

3. Relaunch Amphetamine

Ensure that Amphetamine is installed in your /Applications folder. Navigate to /Applications and double-click Amphetamine's icon to launch the application.