wallpaper rotation of photos

On my Mac book, why does my wallpaper only rotate through a few photos instead of the whole album file like it used to.

It does it for all my photo albums, not just one. Rebooting the computer doesn't help.

It's not a question of orientation. All 4 or 5 photos are oriented properly.


MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jun 13, 2023 11:49 AM

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nelsons-3 wrote:

On my Mac book, why does my wallpaper only rotate through a few photos instead of the whole album file like it used to.
It does it for all my photo albums, not just one. Rebooting the computer doesn't help.
It's not a question of orientation. All 4 or 5 photos are oriented properly.


macOS Ventura Support Community:


I thought this bug was resolved? You make no mention which Ventura you are running...


Can you verify your software is up to date…

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.4



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Posted on Jun 14, 2023 3:19 PM

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Jun 14, 2023 3:19 PM in response to nelsons-3

nelsons-3 wrote:

On my Mac book, why does my wallpaper only rotate through a few photos instead of the whole album file like it used to.
It does it for all my photo albums, not just one. Rebooting the computer doesn't help.
It's not a question of orientation. All 4 or 5 photos are oriented properly.


macOS Ventura Support Community:


I thought this bug was resolved? You make no mention which Ventura you are running...


Can you verify your software is up to date…

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.4



Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support


Sep 26, 2023 3:39 PM in response to elke114

I found that even after rebooting to get the random rotate to work better it never did cycle through all of the photo album photos... probably related to caching and/or memory, I don't know.


What does work, however, is to export all of your photos to a single directory somewhere and then choose the "Add Folder" option instead of the "Add Photo Album".

Sep 27, 2023 9:53 AM in response to rrtodd99

Yes, what I ended up doing was creating a folder called Wallpaper in my DropBox (you could also use iCloud), then subfolders in that which match the Albums in Photos that I wanted to use for wallpaper, and dragged the contents of each of the albums to one of those subfolders and set those up in the Wallpaper setting on each of my machines. Unfortunately I have to manually update those folders when I add new photos, but only once since they are synced. In other words, exactly what the Wallpaper setting SHOULD be doing.

wallpaper rotation of photos

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