After Monterey upgrade can't get desktop pictures to change automatically every 30 minutes. That option is greyed out. Is there a fix?
iMac, OS X 10.11
If you select the Apple folder, which includes all the solid colors, the Change Picture option activates. This doesn't seem like a deliberate oversight, but a bug.
Works fine with pictures from elsewhere, but not up to Apple's usual standards.
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There seem to be a number of posts in the Monterey forums reporting screen saver issues. Examples:
Screen saver broken in Monterey - Apple Community
screen saver - Apple Community
I just tested my uploaded images on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro that I upgraded to Monterey earlier this week. It showed no issues.
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The option is grayed out for the Apple > Desktop Pictures on all five of our Macs. All the other options are active for the usual time intervals.
To me, this has the feel of an oversight on Apple's part, not an an actual bug.
I just reported this issue. on my 2016 MBP that I upgraded from Catalina to Monterrey. Desktop pictures can be set, but they do not persist from start to start. What I get as my desktop is the ugly pink mountain. -_-
Allan Jones wrote:
There seem to be a number of posts in the Monterey forums reporting screen saver issues.
Correct but the question was not about screen savers. :)
Desktop pictures are stored in: /System/Library/Desktop Pictures in the macintosh HD.
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