An image forming apparatus that is controlled by a job processing program serving as a portion of a firmware and into which an application program is installable, the image forming apparatus includes at least one hardware processor which executes an instruction stored in a memory performs operations which include determining whether a print job has been successfully input to the job processing program, in accordance with execution of the application program, terminating the application program without the application program receiving completion notification of the print job, in accordance with a result of the determination that the print job has been successfully input, acquiring a status of the print job under control of the job processing program after termination of the application program, and notifying status information based on the status acquired by the acquiring.