---
id: settings.what-is-the-difference-between-quit-and-restart
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/settings/what-is-the-difference-between-quit-and-restart
category: "Settings & keep-time"
subcategory: "Finding and using Settings"
question: "What happens when I quit or restart Storage Studio?"
alt_questions:
  - "Restart Storage Studio"
  - "Quit Storage Studio from menu bar"
  - "Does quitting stop transfers?"
  - "storage studio helpers keep running after quit"
short_answer: "Quit and Restart both stop work at a safe point and close the app's own helpers. An update being installed and the scheduled background service are deliberately left running."
tags: ["quit", "restart", "background service"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/getting-started/what-is-the-background-service"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# What happens when I quit or restart Storage Studio?

Right-click the menu bar icon for **Restart Storage Studio** and **Quit Storage Studio**. Both run the same tidy shutdown: anything in progress stops at a safe point, and the app's own helpers — for transfers, backups and device connections — are asked to finish and then closed, rather than left running.

Two things are deliberately left alone: the helper that brings the app back after a restart, and an update that's being installed. The scheduled [background service](https://storagestudio.us/faq/getting-started/what-is-the-background-service) also keeps running by design.