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I upgraded to Monterey, and the same photo folder that worked fine as my screensaver is no longer working. It shows the thumbnail in preview section only when you change folder or a setting, but clicking preview doesn't load anything.
Screensaver doesn't work either if photo folder is used.
For my MacBook Air 2017, word of the day screensaver, is working only
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0
Hello Sundeep_Starone and welcome to Apple Support Communities. It appears you are having some difficulty with the photos function of the screensaver since updating to macOS Monterey.
In order to ensure that this is not a broken directory link issue, you may want to try moving the photos to a newly created folder and then set that as the source as outlined here:
Use a screen saver on your Mac
If you take that step and continue to have this issue, reach out directly to Apple Support for additional options.
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Cheers.
Hi Rev,
I have tried importing all those same photos in PHOTOS library in a new folder and using that. Same issue persists.
I have seen multiple people reporting same so it seems related to new OS. I could be wrong.
I can provide more details like - the preview pane thumbnail doesn't load by default when you go into the screensaver option. You need to change any setting like folder etc to make thumbnail appear.
Then when you can see the screensaver thumbnail showing an image from the folder, the preview loads a black screen, or a screen with dimmed image in a black foreground.
Finally, seems like some issue with licensing or product use. I am now getting this message on the screensaver on my MacBook Air 2017 on Monterey:
You cannot use the iLifeSlideshows screen saver with this version of macOS.
Please contact the vendor to get a new version of the screen saver.
Its a shame that even the customer support is not aware of such a licensing kind of issue in a major OS release of Apple.
Its finally fixed today... Thanks to new release 12.1 (21C52) of Monterey...
If you see the image is vaguely visible in the dark screen. Means it can’t be broken link.
its something wrong on the screensaver module on the new OS.
Hi, Any chances when this fix is released by Apple?
Photo folder/library based screensaver broken in Monterey
