# Shut Down - Timeout

**URL:** <https://forum.metagrid.app/t/shut-down-timeout/449>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/shut-down-timeout/449 "2025-01-29T17:20:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Karoshi\_San](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Karoshi\_San](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/Karoshi_San)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/shut-down-timeout/449/1 "2025-01-29T17:20:37Z")

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At the end of the day, I shut off my computer, and obviously, Metagrid lost contact with the metaserver, but the app will keep the iPad on forever, looking for the meta server.

To eliminate having to close out each iPad every night, could you put in, say, a 30-minute timeout for metagrid, so if it does not find the meta server for 30min, it shuts itself down?

This would eliminate the repatative task every night

Thank you

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**Author:** ![MetaGrid\_Admin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.metagrid.app/metagrid_admin/32/21_2.png) [@MetaGrid\_Admin](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/MetaGrid_Admin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/shut-down-timeout/449/2 "2025-01-30T12:29:49Z")

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@Karoshi_San Thanks for sharing this observation. Are you on Windows or Mac?

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**Author:** ![Karoshi\_San](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@Karoshi\_San](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/Karoshi_San)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/shut-down-timeout/449/3 "2025-01-30T16:49:42Z")

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Mac. OSX.

Thank you.