Screen saver broken in Monterey

This will probably be fixed in the same decade that Apple will sort out the months' long issue of music no longer streaming properly from Mac to Airport Express (quits after 7 seconds). The arrogance of this company - ignoring what should be quick fixes that are annoying to many loyal customers - is outrageous.

There's reason to believe this will be fixed in the next Monterey release. Mentioning where that hope comes from will get your post removed, apparently, so I will leave it at that.

If you're thinking about downgrading/resetting back to factory defaults, consider waiting a bit.

thank goodness im not the only one... i thought i broke something or screwed up the files. only monterey, flurry, and drift work for me. i prefer key burns and that one doesn't work, it just cycles through solid colors... im on a macbook air m1 on 12.0.1

I have the exact issue as described. Photo based screensavers that previously worked are no longer working on Monterey. I have never reported a problem before, how is that done, is it only via telephone or is there a link for opening an issue?

Same here. MacBook Air (M1) screensaver works although it is no longer showing my edited photos. They are all the unedited versions which is annoying as I have edited thousands of photos. On my iMac no luck at all. Just a black screen.

I noticed my MacBook from 2017 just says "no photos" when using the screensaver after the update. I hadn't even checked the settings nor touched anything. Weird. So naturally, I navigated to the screen saver, fidgeted with it for a bit, tried to dig libraries where you can choose photos from. Something was off and the whole widget felt weird as ****. I tried using the default ones (had Ken Burns on before). It started displaying this message after a while. Monterey is the only saver that renders as it should (I'm assuming, haven't seen it before anywhere tho :D)

TL;DR I think we just need to wait for them to update stuff to get it configured for the new OS or something along those lines.

Yes, unfortunately I looked and I can see the folder ilifemediabrowser with a sub folder named Plug-Ins, but the screensavers with photos still are not working. The preview is just a blank screen and the screensaver does the same.

But thanks for the info, I hope Apple will fix this.

I got a message that Apple cannot verify that the file isn't spam even though it appeared to be on their website! I can't seem to get past the error message. When I click "Ok" it quits and just doesn't seem to let me download it. I don't see anything iLife in my Library. Apple Support had me delete the iLife folders when I contacted them for help with this problem. Ugh!

I guess we must be missing something or I'm just lucky. Like I stated without that file my photos screensaver does not work but it does with that file so not sure what is happening. I'm sure Apple will fix in some update later.

I'm having the exact same problems. When I select the folder of photos, it appears to select them, but when I go to preview, I get faint ghost pictures. It's frustrating. It does the same with whatever folder of photos I choose.

I already have the folder /Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser/Plug-Ins from an older OS (though last updated October of this year), and the screensaver still does not work. Here are the 11 items that I see in that folder. Is there anything you have that I do not? Thanks in advance.

I am also using an Intel iMac (5K Retina, 27-inch, late 2015). Have already submitted a bug report through the link provided on this thread.

I could not agree more! Having been in the software business i cant imagine how little

rational and continuity testing was done on this whole release.

i have 6 apple machines and will never likely upgrade 5 of them based on this miserable outcome. This would be basic stuff across machine compatability!

Moneterey 12.1 is now giving me a screensaver that changes the pictures every few seconds, using a folder in Photos. That's a plus. But the photos are still showing up in unedited form. I have lots of pictures that I have edited - I am still getting them in the screensaver in their original, unedited, form (as with Monterey thus far, and also with the last version of Big Sur. In all the screwups of the screensaver that I have seen through numerous system updates over 25 years, this is a new one. Reported. But all the reports on here about this issue describe a whole bunch of different issues, not just one or two. WTF is going on over there?

Yes we see that option, but when we choose the location with the pictures we want to appear on our screensaver, once it turns on, it will only show the images way to dark, like they're dimmed all the way down, you can't see more than a black screen with just an almost imperceptible shadow of the photo.

Hm. My screensaver image file folder is called LOL and it works just fine. However, the folder is not in the ~/Library/Screen Savers folder. It's on a non-standard location (disk partition on internal drive).

So weird.