Can I change the login screen wallpaper on macOS Ventura? It's simply staggering that users must abide the jarring login screen image first introduced in Monterey. It remains. For a company so committed to design and user experience, this is both sloppy and confusing. Please let users with multiple accounts and FileVault activated change this.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.0
Ralph The Magician wrote:
There are three distinct "login screens" in macOS now.
1) Initial login after a restart or shutdown (disk fully encrypted)
2) Login screen after an initial login has occurred
3) The lock screen
1) Cannot be changed easily. It's the preboot phase of a FileVault protected drive. Everything encrypted.
2) Can be changed (and no need to disable FileVault) -> see below how to.
3) Can be changed by the user : Systems Settings -> Wallpapers
To change 2) :
Note : if you want to have a different wallpaper for login screen and for session : after step 2, redo step 1, then Step 3 & 4
Hope it helps
Nishimori wrote:
things that have nothing to do with it such as File Vault or multiple users.
in actuality, they are related. the situation that macOS faces when either of those things apply, it's kind of like coming to a fork in the road where there are no street signs, and you have no directions, but need to figure out which way you need to go.
GreyT,
Have you restarted? I think you'll be disappointed.
After I upgraded from v13.02 to v13.2, macOS presented a login screen that had my desktop background / restart image. I was elated. Short lived. After restarting Mr. Ugly appeared again.
It seems that Apple has hired designers from Microsoft.
The above worked for me. Specifically checking the checkbox at:
Systems Settings -> Lock Screen -> Show message when locked -> enable the option -> set a message
I have the same "problem" and read all the replies. The reasoning behind not being able to change the wallpaper makes sense. How about a compromise - what if the design team presents 5 or so wallpapers before an update and lets the community vote on it? I really wouldn't make such a big deal except that Ventura's pic is very jarring... I didn't mind Monterey's at all.
You answered the question I was going to ask, and thank you for explaining it clearly. I recently updated the OS on my Macbook Pro to Ventura 13.1, and I can't escape the flowery orange/yellow graphic that comes with starting the computer. I've looked at a bunch of settings, but I had come close to concluding that there was no way to alter that graphic, and I think you just confirmed it. Annoying, and not user-friendly, but knowing that there's nothing I can do gives me some closure, at least....
This is definitely a nice aesthetic feature that shouldn't be disabled from things that have nothing to do with it such as File Vault or multiple users. File Vault is a requirement for me but as a designer not being able to change it to my desktop background drives me a little mad lol. Come on Apple.
Thanks much! Tried this and on my M1 macOS Ventura (latest) it didn't work. The Lock Screen text shows up on the Screen #1, the wallpaper changes on the screen #2 (meaning the login screen for a particular user once you select the user) and that's it. (FYI: by #1 & 2 I mean various screens as per your numbering provided above).
It seems that now you can't delete the guest account either, so that work around isn't an option... Left with some kind of 90s massive orange cheesy flower on the login screen of my £3k Mac Studio... Nice one... 🤦🏼♂️
05/12/2023
Three things "seem to me..."
It seems to me that this issue has been going on since Monterey?
It seems to me that there is currently no fix.
Finally it seems to me there are bigger problems of which to take issue.
First of all, don't sit in your chair staring at the login screen getting mad. Login, and then move along.
Here is my biggest issue: I updated to Ventura 13.3.1 and soon discovered I had no 'write' access to an NTFS partition through Paragon NTFS for Mac that came with an external disk drive. 13.3.1 broke it. I use it for BOOTCAMP but its nice to write to it on macOS instead of it mounting as read-only. While trying to resolve that I broke other things leading to a Time Machine reinstall and multiple recovery mode Ventura reinstalls. Other software was equally broken. Only after resolving that "Ventura update" problem did I decide to look into changing the ugly login screen. Oh well, my blood pressure has returned to normal and the ugly login screen isn't going to get to me. Just as in MS Windows, Apple will provide sufficient "If it ain't broke, fix it with the biggest hammer to be found" issues to well and truly **** me off.
O.P. wrote:
Ralph The Magician wrote:
To change 2) :
Set you preferred background in Systems Settings -> Wallpapers
2. then go to Systems Settings -> Lock Screen -> Show message when locked -> enable the option -> set a message (you can disable it after) -> it will update the default login screen wallpaper to include the message -> that's the trick
3. Quit Systems Settings
4. Logout -> the new wallpaper is used for the login
This did not work for me.
Kirk
I have those settings, didn't realize the limitations
Seriously, I've wondered what's n-been happening the past couple of years, as updates seem not as throughly vetted or design logic seems a bit off at times.
Orange and Yellow buttocks?
Understand. I won't run without FileVault.
macOS Ventura login screen wallpaper customization
