Can I change login screen with OS Monterey

I wholeheartedly agree.

That login screen is hideous, and in my workplace, it’s a standing joke

The computer for the rest of us is now the computer just like the rest of us

If (when) Apple delete this, I still won’t have moved beyond Catalina.

The imposition of corporate dictate destroys the ethos of why I choose Apple way back when.

I was looking at buying a car once, and there was a part of the controls that I didn’t like. The salesman said “Oh, you’ll get used to it"

I didn’t buy the car.

And what's the big deal to you for the majority those of us who has used Apple products for 10, 15, 20+ years and the ability to customize things to make macOS yours were the norm. Now you can't even change the most literal basic of customization things, items that were allowed in previous versions, and have NOTHING to do with security reasons like some uninformed people are thinking as excuses.

Just because you're willing to deal with subpar quality and options, doesn't mean all the rest of us are okay with it. There's absolutely no reason this was changed.

Well said. This is ruining my view of Apple and my relationship with their products. They’ve obviously turned into an arrogant corporation like... well, like Kodak (whatever happened to them, I wonder)

8 pages with countless replies and a multi-billion company can't even fix such a simple issue.

I am also stuck with that "red" Monterey wallpaper. It simply looks weird when signing in (flickering between two wallpapers for a short moment). Another example of walling in everything, even basic things, rather than giving the users a bit more of control.

Spotlight is another issue here. I disable "Show Siri suggestions" and yet I still get nonsense web results. I can also no longer sort the search categories like it was possible before with prior MacOS versions. Had been discussed everywhere on Reddit, no fix for my $3000 MBP. Just pathetic.

it's may 2022 and this is still where my brand new MBP is stuck. it's hideous. is this just a ploy to get us to buy separate computers for each of our users so we never need to get to the "login screen"?

these options are not available to me. very confusing! apple is not intuitive... :(

it's quite humorous that people come here for help and just talk about options that are not shared across experiences due to versioning or what not. WEIRD, guys. it's really weird for no good reason. sigh.

My iMac came out of the box with Hello Blue as the default. I upgraded to Monterey and ended up with the purple/pink screen. I liked Hello Blue far better than the Monterey screen. If I would have known I was going to get stuck with the purple/pink screen I would not have updated my operating system. I wish Apple would have given us a choice on this. I'm sure some people like purple pink. I'm not one of those people.

This is my exact issue.

From System Preferences I have changed;

• Desktop Picture
• Lock Screen
• Lock Screen on startup (FAILED)

But cannot change the Lock Screen on startup. No other users are on this. MacBook Pro. I would have expected the System Preferences to change the theme across the board. Its ridiculous that it does not do this.

When I'm discussing the default Big Sur/Monterey Lock Screen background with my wife, I refer to it as the "crayon drawing." So sad, since Big Sur shipped with several gorgeous high-res photos of Big Sur.

jjcliff wrote:

I am having a similar problem, except my login/Lock Screen is stuck on the CHROMA RED wallpaper.

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Mine too. None of the suggested workarounds change the pre-login boot up wallpaper for me

No, I’m telling you what happens when it restarts using the on button on my M1 24” iMac running Monterey.

Here’s the proof.

Good to know that. I am one of three users with guest.

Only things on my Mac titles Monterey is a copy of the Monterey installer and the Monterey screensaver. If I click on the screensaver it says it is already installed and can't be changed.

When I’m next on my computer I’ll see if I can find the file it loads on login.