Can I change login screen with OS Monterey

This only works under following conditions

• FileVault is turned off
• Display login window is set to "List of users"
• Guest User is disabled

This doesn’t work for M1 Max, Monterey machines.

Hi

Stop the presses. Final resolution of this may need to wait for 12.0.2. I had already followed all the steps of Angelika241. Thank you Angelika241!!

Restarting gave me the regular Monterey desktop some of would like to change.

Next step was to change my desktop photo to the Eiffel Tower. Restart. Same Monterey image.

Restart and TURN OFF THE FILEVAULT. Restart.

The sign in image is my smiling face with a backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. Restart. Still the Eiffel Tower. Restart.

Turn ON FileVault. Restart.

The same multi blue and purple Monterey log in screen.

Would someone else out there try to duplicate this for a second opinion.

I'd also like the moderator to run this issue up to folks in a higher pay-grade for the next OS update.

Time for some Geritol and sleep, lolol

The login background will be the same as your desktop background only if 1) FileVault is turned off, 2) you are the only user and guest user is turned off AND 3) in the users & groups preference pane you have "Display login window as List of users" checked. If you have "name and password" checked it WILL NOT work. Furthermore, it is absolutely impossible to replace the actual default image file Monterey uses: (/System/Library/Desktop Pictures/Monterey Graphic.heic) It's on the encrypted system volume and is completely inaccessible to the user.

I'm on MacbookPro M1max 16" on OSX 12.0.1 and I have exactly this configuration on the settings: 1) FileVault is turned off, 2) I am the only user and guest user is turned off AND 3) in the users & groups preference pane I have "Display login window as List of users" checked .... and it doesn't work ! the login screen image is not my wallpaper and it's not the /System/Library/Desktop Pictures/Monterey Graphic.heic image either. instead I always have /System/Library/Desktop Pictures/Chroma Red.heic in the background of the login screen which is absolutely horrible !

Has anyone called AppleCare for support about this issue? I might try that.

You are wrong. If you go in through system preference>desktop and screen saver, click on desktop, you get choices, sure. But they just won't apply in Monterey. You can choose what you like, it will not switch out of this horrible mauve valley screen, which comes with Monterey. Can someone produce a fix for this soon, please?

hello,

sorry, I don't speak English but just follow this tutorial,

https://www.howtoisolve.com/how-to-change-the-login-screen-background-mac-macbook/

work for me in Monterey.

good bye

Thank you!

I asked Apple and they told me Monterey would work as per the previous version but I needed to download the images first!

This method has been covered already. It doesn’t work.

Unfortunately, Apple, with all due respect, fails to respect the wishes of millions of users in macOS. Monterey's issue is to select and have their preferred "Login Screen Image", yet they allow changes to the desktop image.

This was also the case with BigSur; however, with BigSur there was a workaround that I located that worked. It does not work in Monterey.

The problem is that most users of Apple products have unique personalities and wish to have the flexibility to have their personalities visible, and the current login screen is a looser screen. It is more than a looser it is a constant irritant. Gosh! It is like it is the new COVID attack. How to get rid of it is a big concern.

I was thinking of purchasing one of the new laptops Apple has but the burden of continuing to have such an irritant login screen, would not disappear. Then to think of paying thousands of dollars to see the same login screen, is not acceptable.

If anyone really has a way to change things or has an influence with Apple, do so.

Sorry, it Work for me on monterey 12.0.1 and bêta 12.1.

Do I navigate to the Go to /Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures. from the "advanced options" from User & Groups in Systems Preferences? The "warning" sign made me hesitant to do anything. Has anyone reported success on this protocol (to change the hideous login screen arty thing) when system has multiple users?

Thank you for this, it didn't work the first time for me, but did eventually after playing around a bit.

I followed steps 1-7 exactly as written but wasn't sure what to do about the lockscreen.png text which appears between Steps 7 and 8. Turns out there is nothing to do; the system creates that file on its own after a restart based on the image selected in Step 11.

Still, my chosen lock screen didn't appear after Step 12.

Here's the magic - I then selected Lock Screen from the  menu and it switched to the lock screen with my chosen image! I then restarted again to confirm, and sure enough, my M1 MBP running MacOS Monterey now launches my screen.

Thanks again!

He is taking about the screen you get at start-up. Since Big Sur, instead of a photo is a painted landscape with horrible colours.

Have you ever started an iMac or a MacBook? What is the first image that you see BEFORE logging in?