Lockscreen Picture

How do you change the lock screen picture in Catalina on the Mac? I was told they took this feature out of the Catalina version. And there was all kinds of complicated ways to do that online that didn't sound safe--are there any easier ways? Like if you have a picture you want you can't just change it to photo.heic and drop it into Go/System/Library/Desktop Pictures because it won't allow you to add any pictures to that folder.

Posted on Apr 24, 2020 5:10 PM

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Apr 25, 2020 5:37 AM in response to Filmmaker19

Filmmaker19 wrote:

How do you change the lock screen picture in Catalina on the Mac? I was told they took this feature out of the Catalina version. And there was all kinds of complicated ways to do that online that didn't sound safe--are there any easier ways? Like if you have a picture you want you can't just change it to photo.heic and drop it into Go/System/Library/Desktop Pictures because it won't allow you to add any pictures to that folder.



You can change the login screen

Customize the desktop picture on your Mac - Apple Support




If you have Filevault enabled you have to get past this screen first.

You can try ref: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250712800?page=1

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