Screen saver broken in Monterey

I can’t imagine this is how they would do it. They’ve already blacklisted certain intel based macs that are not compatible with Monterey.. also, if by remote chance that was their strategy, they wouldn’t be doing it with screensavers. In addition to, one of the screensavers that works is Monterey which uses just as complicated graphics algorithms as the others. This must simply be how the build compiled these for Intel based macs imho

Diacritical, this is not the case with me. Monitor up to its full brightness - nothing there. I have an LG Ultrafine 5K monitor hooked up to my MacBook Pro. Doesnt work on the MacBook monitor nor on the LG. If the photos were there, I would see them. Tried last night in full dark room - there isnt anything there.

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.

Nothing to do with the Photos DB. You could have a folder of photos anywhere on your hard drive and be able to point the screensaver towards it and they would show up in any of the motion options as shown:

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.

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 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.

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

So this issue has still not been fixed from the previous OS. What the **** is going on? Why does Apple break the screensaver in new and creative ways every time they make a new OS?

My problem is twofold:

1. The screensaver does find my folder from Photos, but it puts up one photo and leaves it there. No changing picture - and therefore no screensaving either. You cannot specify how long each photo stays up before it changes - and it simply doesn't change at all.
2. I have edited some of the photos in the folder that I use. The screensaver shows the unedited version. Why? This had never happened before.

Come on Apple. Let us use our own pictures. It matters to some of us.