Screen saver broken in Monterey

I dread doing Apple upgrades now. I just wish that they would check everything before releasing it. One would think that a large company like Apple would do things properly. I have reported the bug to Apple, let's hope they fix it soon. BTW I have a 2020 M1 Macbook Air and I am experiencing the same problem with the pictures not loading on the desktop option of settings.

Having this issue as well on my 2018 Intel Mac mini.

It's actually the latest issue I've been having with the Classic screensaver when pointed at an Album in my Photo Library.

Couple of months ago, possibly after an update to Big Sur, the Classic screensaver started displaying the photos in the album in their original unedited, non-16:9 aspect ratios.

Reported to Apple and sent an email to the folks as MacGeekGab podcast to give the issue some publicity.

I do not use photos from the Photos app. The photos are accessible in finder and other app(Lightroom, photoshop) as well as on another MBP with Catalina.

The screensavers worked fine in Big Sur

so this is definitely a Monterey issue.

So you are all here to complain to the void not troubleshoot. OS updates are not as simple as you paint. There are many moving parts and third-party applications in the way. It could be something as simple as a permissions issue. The question mentioned Photo Library.

M1 Mac, Intel Mac both on Monterey for

months now and this is not one of the many issues. Hope your prayers help. 👋

Marcos Duran

The initial post did mention Photo Library but also mentioned "a folder of photos" - that is my particular issue. I have a late 2015 Intel iMac and the issue started when I installed Monterey.

I've submitted 2 bug reports to Apple and hope they fix this soon. 😀

I like to use my personal images with Screensaver, and up until now that has been no problem. All I get is a black screen when I click on a folder of images. My image are accepted for the desktop, but with Ken Burns, it's all black.

Apple posted today in the Feedback Assistant: Potential fix identified - For a future OS update

So hopefully there will be an update soon, I missed my screensaver pics of my late husband of 50 years!!!

Yeah. I can use the stock photos that render very slowly on the iMac screen. But none of the "Dynamic" pictures work. My biggest problem, though, is that using an additional monitor in "Extended" mode (or any other, I'm sure...but haven't tried..I don't want to mirror or exchange), all I get is the stock blue on blue Monterey desktop on the additional monitor, while the main iMac screen shows the desktop picture choice (with no Dynamic choices that work).

I have noticed that too. After installing Monterey on MBP late 2017 and iMac late 2020 it worked for a few hours, then they went dark, the only screen savers that work seem to be from Monterey downwards. Any news when Apple to fix it?

I have the same problem. Activity Monitor shows hard drive literally going into overdrive at 600%+ CPU usage for Photos, iLife, and other Photos-related programs. iLife is especially unusual since it was an early predecessor to Photos and was discontinued many years ago. worked with Apple’s service group and got elevated to the engineering group which analyzed crash logs and basically concluded they need to find a fix and would address it in a future update. Not sure if Monterrey solved it or not. Need to check that……Not hopeful as previous recent updates did not solve this issue. Apple, please, from your biggest fans, get this fixed! Not being able to use my favorite photos as a screensaver for so long is, well, unbecoming my favorite computer company and puts me at a disadvantage with my Microsoft/PC friends!

I am so fed up with Apple. From changing the format of JPGs, pictures so small us older users can hardly see them when trying to select one to post and now this screen saver issue. Been seriously thinking of going back to Windows.

I think the target audience still wants to choose their desktop wallpaper. This is a bug, and they wont fix it until gheu fix everything else so they can release with the next update. A simple acknowledgment from them would be nice though.

The Classic and Ken Burns screensavers in Monterey default to "Colors". The picture collections in Big Sur don't exist. I reported this 2 weeks ago along with many other users but Apple has not released an update. Apple spent a lot of time hyping this new OS and offered many Beta versions How did this go unnoticed before the final release? So far Monterey has not lived up to the hype and is a huge disappointment. Apple, if you're reading this, please provide an update and explain how you missed this issue before you released the final version.

If you read reports online, it become obvious that these issues were reported by beta testers, but Apple decided to ignore to meet M1 hype deadline. The next big thing is new colors of home pods and 1mm bigger apple watch:) Still waiting for iMac with bigger screen.

Honestly, the new programmers at apple appear to not have any Unix background and probably came from Microsoft. Not only does the photo based screen savers not work, but they've un-systematically (if that's a word) removed random code from the /bin directory without verifying if the lib dependancies were being referenced. They killed php and server side functionality to the point that I had to install home-brew to make basic Unix functions available again.

What a mess