Photo library won’t load for screen saver in Monterey

Hi Peabody1,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand you're unable to view photos as your screen saver in macOS Monterey. We'll be happy to help.

To help troubleshoot this behavior, we recommend to restart your Mac in safe mode. This helps to perform a basic check of your startup disk, deletes some system caches and more. Once your Mac is in safe mode, please restart it as normal and see if your photos appear with your screen saver. If needed, here's how to start up your Mac in safe mode: How to use safe mode on your Mac

Please keep us posted with the results.

Kind regards.

Peabody1 wrote:

I am with other people with the same problem. I am using a 2019 iMac desktop. I upgraded to Monterey this morning and only get a black screen with the clock on it if I try to use any other option except the Monterey screen saver. I have searched everywhere and can’t find any answers. Thank you

You can submit a bug report using this same link: Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback

Pictures will not load in Safe Mode from the preview in the screen saver settings even though they can be seen in the settings screen.

After returning to normal mode they still do not appear either in preview or normal screen saver mode.

same with me this happened with big sur and previous upgrades eventually after a week or so it suddenly started to work properly so wait and see and report it to apple

I am having the same problem with my iMac (27 in, 2017). However, the screen saver is working fine using the same file of images on my MBP (13 in, 2020).

Peabody1,

Thanks for getting back to us and for attempting those steps. To review this further, we recommend to contact Apple Support through this link here: Get Support

Best regards.

Hi did you ever find a solution? I have the same issue and have given up trying to get a fix out of Apple support.

No, no solution. It's interesting that I have no problem with my macbook pro, only on my iMac.

Hooray the photos screensaver is back with update monterey 12.1