How to Change the Login Screen Wallpaper on a Mac

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How to Change the Login Screen Wallpaper on a Mac


Works for Various Versions of macOS:

If you want to change the Mac's login screen wallpaper, but not the wallpaper on the Desktop, perform this clever trick:


I. FIRST: Create the Background:

  1. Open: an image you want to use as your new lock screen background
  2. Click: [the file name] on top-left corner of image
  3. Click: the “V” on the right-side of the file name
  4. Type: lockscreen.png for “Name:”
  5. Select: Desktop for “Where:”
  6. Press: return key

Screenshot:

 

 

II. THEN: Open Desktop Pictures in Finder:

  1. Click: the Desktop
  2. Click: Go menu in the Dock
  3. Click: Go to Folder…
  4. Type: /Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures in “Go to Folder
  5. Press: return key

Screenshot:

 

III. FINALLY: Set lockscreen.png as the lockscreen wallpaper

  1. Double-Click: each folder until lockscreen.png is found
  2. Drag: lockscreen.png from the Desktop to Desktop Pictures folder
  3. Click: Move button in the popup window (Screenshot A.)
  4. Click: Replace button in the popup window (Screenshot B.)

(Screenshot A.)


(Screenshot B.)

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