edited photos appear unedited when desktop background

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edited photos appear unedited when desktop background

I've just started using a new MacBook Air, and set my desktop to use one of my Photos albums. However, on the new MacBook desktop, the photos do not appear with the edits I've done in Photos -- the pics are not cropped the way I have saved them in Photos. Does anyone know how to correct this -- how to get edited version of my pics to display as desktop background? On my previous MacBook the edited/cropped versions would display for desktop.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jan 22, 2022 8:37 PM

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léonie

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Jan 22, 2022 10:02 PM in response to achilepastor

One more idea - perhaps this will work for you as well: How are you setting the Desktop picture? In the System preferences or directly from Photos?

When I want to use a cropped or rotated picture I found it safer to use the Share menu in Photos: Share > Set as Desktop Picture. This command will force Photos to create a preview and send the current preview to the Desktop, not the original. However, the photo will be zoomed to fill the screen. So we still have to open the System Preferences > Desktop and change this to "Fit" instead of fill.

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achilepastor Author

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Jan 31, 2022 9:12 PM in response to léonie

I want to use the desktop options of using all the photos in a folder, changing every minute in random order, not just one photo. All of the photos have been cropped to fit my full screen. The system is using the right folder, changing the desktop pic every minute as selected in System Preferences: desktop & screen saver; just isn't showing cropped-to-fit versions.

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Feb 24, 2022 8:18 AM in response to achilepastor

It's the same for the screen saver using photos and this error is persisting since several versions of Monterey, Catalina and Big Sur as well.

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Jan 22, 2022 8:54 PM in response to achilepastor

Other people have said this, it appears to be a bug in Monterey, so send Apple feedback. A workaround is to export the edited image and re-import it, so that way the edited one *will* be an original.

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léonie

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Jan 31, 2022 11:40 PM in response to achilepastor

You will have to wait for a bug fix. All we can do is to provide feedback to Apple and to try to convince them to give priority to to the Desktop and Screensaver and slideshows.

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