Ventura 13.3 broke my screensaver--

same issue on my iMac - Ventura 13.3 has broken my screen saver. Photos show up on external monitor, but the built-in display shows "no photos"

Hopefully this has enough momentum behind it to be addressed quickly.

Same nonsense for me as well thanks to updating to Ventura 13.3 this morning. As soon as my screensavers began I saw the "No Photos" on my secondary monitor. Wonder how long it will take for them to fix something they obviously broke with the update. Thanks Apple, real quality tested update you released to the public, smh.

Same problem, except sometimes it would display them after using the hot corner to launch screensaver. I updated to 13.3.1 hoping it would fix but no. Instead now it *never* shows them on 2nd display, so at least it's consistent! I get "No photos" with some screensavers, or just black screen with others. Obviously there are photos since it is displaying them fine on monitor 1.

I am having the same issue, with 13.3.1 and fliqlo clock when using two monitors. The screensaver shows up cut off on my mbp, only displaying half the clock, and the secondary monitor (a new apple studio display) shows nothing. Some of the default apple screensavers are also not working in various ways, but some are fine. Please let me know if you find a solution. Hopefully it's just apple needing an update.

Clearly a problem with the screen saver parameters, while Background and Screens parameters shows the

multiple displays I use, the Screen saver show only one display like if it is ignoring all the displays... and any photos related screen savers won't work.

Mac Studio here.

I finally got around to the latest Ventura update and the first thing I noticed was that it changed my display arrangement. I have 2 rows with a single monitor up top and 2 below. It put them all in a single row, and changed which monitor was the main screen.

As well, only 1 of the extended displays shows the screen saver images if at all. Other times, all displays are either black or show "No Pictures".

I had the same issue for about a month. I just tried unplugging the external monitor from my iMac and then plugged it back in and now the screensaver works on both screens again.

EDITED - oops, never mind. It only works on Preview, it won't work when it runs regularly.

Nah, still broken... At least with Fliqlo it is. I even reinstalled Fliqlo version 1.8.5, to no avail.

Let me qualify that remark: When one external monitor is connected, Fliqlo appears to work as it should.

When TWO monitors are connected, however, the problem persists.

OK, this is not an issue for me. Photo Library works - note some users reported the photos showed up "later", probably an indexing process. But I thought I would re-cap a few points about the issue and fixes in 13.4:

• some built-in savers are not affected by this issue (Flurry, Arabesque, Shell), most of them are (photos ones, but also Hello and even Message), the third-party ones differ, probably depending on which "engine" it uses
• the error is manifested either by a blank screen, or inability to load photos, or by showing the same content on all displays where it should be different (i.e. Hello or Message)
• the issue was always intermittent; in 13.3, the failure rate was well above 90%, and in 13.4, it's below 10%

What I've noticed is that it always works correctly the first time it's triggered after a reboot; after that, it's mostly broken.

As I've said, it's all legacy screensavers, a model that older ones use, including many of Apple's.

Screen savers that use images show a black screen. Screen savers that show a graphic effect or album covers work as expected. An experience that deviates from this is another issue.

kipmanley wrote:

Upgraded last night. Now screen saver won't appear on the main display, just on the extended display. After a while, the words "No Picture" appear on the main display.

Same here! I have two monitors using the Classic screensaver and up until the 13.3 upgrade I would see photos on both screens. Now just the right screen shows a photo. I can occasionally see photos on the left screen when I trigger the screen saver manually but it is rare.

Tried this, same result. When using screensaver with photos, the screen is black. Have also tried restarting the mac several times, but no dice on this. Screen is black when screensaver is on and this came after the update I installed yesterday.

I had a similar issue, but in my case, the secondary display stopped showing the screensaver. Note that I had my MacBook Pro disconnected from my dock when I did the Ventura 13.3 update. The next day, I connected my Mac to my dock (which also has my secondary display connected) and noticed the issue. My secondary display eventually just displayed No Photos. I tried restarting my Mac and the first time I initiated the screensaver, the secondary display showed the screensaver, but on subsequent initiations, it did not.